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oib111 · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:37 pm Post subject: extracting data from the web

In me and my friends program, we open a link in an invisible browser(it would be in teh way if you could see it) and we want to extract some text from it. How do we do this, btw its in vb(my friend is skate4lifee so yeah)

atom0s · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:50 am Post subject: Re: extracting data from the web

zart · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 6:13 am Post subject:

Depends how you are loading it, but you should be able to pipe the data into some type of form that you can parse. extracting data shouldn't be a problem if you know what to expect - html is easy to find since it's always in between "< >"'s

Then again if your just using a ocx file - you might have to do research on that specific file.

oib111 · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:24 am Post subject:

Here is the basic layout of the program , its a thing for people weho use rapidshare and dont have premium accounts so tehy have to wait, our program tells them how much longer they have to wait, and notifies them when its over. When they click the start button it will open up a browser with an alphablend at 0 so you cant see and go to their link. then we want to take the number of minutes(i.e please wait 160 minutes until next download).

appalsap · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:26 am Post subject:

There's no point in graphically rendering the html if you aren't going to show it to the user. But since you're using VB (which can't do anything good) you can't just dowload the page and parse it.

oib111 · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:28 am Post subject:

We are going to show it to the user =P. There are three labels(hours, minutes and seconds) which will display the time left...and if he can't do in vb, how can I do it in C++?