Get info from a websites source

[vasil7112]

Website source:

Some random content
<div id="right" class="column">
  <div class="pane">
    <div class="pane_header"><h2>Site News & Events</h2></div>
      <div class="pane_content">
        <div id="news_feed">
          <div class='news_post'>
            <p class="news_post_topic"><a href="/example" title="example</a><br/>
             Posted <abbr class='timeago' title='2013-05-21 16:28:07'>05/21/2013</abbr></p>
          </div>
          <div class='news_post'>
            <p class="news_post_topic"><a href="/example2" title="examples">/example</a><br/>
            Posted <abbr class='timeago' title='2013-05-10 16:53:37'>05/10/2013</abbr></p>
          </div>
       </div>
    </div>
.....
Some more content

What i want:
Without any webbrowser window,(using webclient), search in all the code.
Find the id news_feed, and go to the first child, and get the websitelink, the title, and the date posted.
Then display the title, with the websitelink on a linklabel, and the dateposted on the label.
Then do the same foe the next news_post.
I believed it would look something like this, but i was wrong
WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("news_feed").AppendChild(1) ...[On this example i used webbrowser. I want it without it ]

[formlesstree4]

If you did some Bing/Google searches, you would have probably found the Html Agility Pack which will do exactly what you need.

[dunfiddlin]

Aaargh! Not the Agility Pack! Anything but the Agility Pack!

[vasil7112]

If you did some Bing/Google searches, you would have probably found the Html Agility Pack which will do exactly what you need.

Thanks alot, i will see what i can do

[vasil7112]

Aaargh! Not the Agility Pack! Anything but the Agility Pack!

Why not? What should i use? Do you recommend something? Thanks alot for the help
Kind regards

[dunfiddlin]

It's just not necessary. It's simpler (and requires no additives!) to continue using a webbrowser object, just behind the scenes. It's not necessary to make the browser visible or for the user to be in any way aware of it. It's simply a host for the HTML document (which is ultimately all the Agility Pack is, after all!)

[formlesstree4]

It's just not necessary. It's simpler (and requires no additives!) to continue using a webbrowser object, just behind the scenes. It's not necessary to make the browser visible or for the user to be in any way aware of it. It's simply a host for the HTML document (which is ultimately all the Agility Pack is, after all!)

His criteria was to not use it!
Had he not said that, I would have just said use the WebBrowser. Who are we to say to the OP that he should use the phillips head screw driver on a phillips screw when the flat head clearly works

EDIT: He could EVEN use mshtml and reference the HtmlDocument class there!!

[dunfiddlin]

His criteria was to not use it!

You've got to read between the lines sometimes! What he said was not to use it, what I think he meant was not to show that he was using it! Could be wrong. It happens. There was that occasion in 1974 when ...

[formlesstree4]

You've got to read between the lines sometimes! What he said was not to use it, what I think he meant was not to show that he was using it! Could be wrong. It happens. There was that occasion in 1974 when ...

formlesstree4 pulls up a chair
...go on

[vasil7112]

You've got to read between the lines sometimes! What he said was not to use it, what I think he meant was not to show that he was using it! Could be wrong. It happens. There was that occasion in 1974 when ...

Well i meant, you know how it is this..
Dim str As String = New WebClient().DownloadString(("http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/planetminecraft.com"))
something like that, not a webbrowser, it doesn't use gui.
But anyways, i need though help with the childs. how to get the correct id, and each child.

[formlesstree4]

Well i meant, you know how it is this..
Dim str As String = New WebClient().DownloadString(("http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/planetminecraft.com"))
something like that, not a webbrowser, it doesn't use gui.
But anyways, i need though help with the childs. how to get the correct id, and each child.

You don't even need to SHOW the WebBrowser. You can make an instance of it because, at its heart, it's still an object. So just create a WebBrowser and load it up.

[vasil7112]

You don't even need to SHOW the WebBrowser. You can make an instance of it because, at its heart, it's still an object. So just create a WebBrowser and load it up.

Ok, another question. if instead of id, it was class, how can i do it?

[formlesstree4]

It's amazing what using a search engine will uncover!