Screen Scraping for the Web
 
 
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Group: Toronto Visual Basic User Group (TVBUG)
Date: September 21, 2000
Abstract:

As a developer, have you ever found yourself wishing that your new application could automatically go out and get some information from a Web Site. Wouldn't it be great if you app could get stock quotes from an online broker, validate phone numbers from an online directory or get the latest news headlines from a local paper or news site.

In this session Rob will show you how the Web Browser control and Microsoft's HTML Parser can grant your wish and allow your apps to harvest the wealth of information on the Web.

This page last updated September 23, 2000

In this session I used two sample applications to demonstrate how you can use the WebBrowser control, the Internet Explorer Document Object Model (DOM) and the HTML Parser to interact with and retrieve information from Web pages using Visual Basic

The technologies described in the presentation require VB 5.0 or or higher and Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher. The sample code that is available for download requires VB 6.0.

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