Get HTML from webpage w/o Inet

Hi there,

What is another way to download the page source code w/o using the Inet control?

Can a webbrowser control be used to do this? If so, please provide an example.

ex.:
strURL = "http://yahoo.com"

All i need is the source code of strURL put into strHTML without using the Inet control.

Thanks in advance!

Why not use Inet?

You can use XML in addition to Winsock to get html code.

VB Code:

Option Explicit
 
Private Sub Command1_Click()
 With Winsock
    .RemoteHost = "finance.lycos.com"
    .RemotePort = 80
    .Close
    .Connect
 End With
End Sub
 
Private Sub Winsock_Connect()
    Winsock.SendData "GET /qc/stocks/quotes.aspx?symbols=INTC" & Chr(10)
End Sub
 
Private Sub Winsock_DataArrival(ByVal bytesTotal As Long)
Dim X As String
    Winsock.GetData X
    Debug.Print X
End Sub
 
Private Sub Winsock_Error(ByVal Number As Integer, Description As String, ByVal Scode As Long, ByVal Source As String, ByVal HelpFile As String, ByVal HelpContext As Long, CancelDisplay As Boolean)
Debug.Print "Error "; Description
End Sub

You see the webpage im trying to parse data from is special lol...

When i try to use inet to download html from it, it detects it as data mining or something and takes me to an error page and then my program displays the html of that error page...

so, what i need to do is create a webbrowser control, load the page in there and only then get the html from an already loaded page within my webbrowser control.

Did you see my post?

yeh im still trying to figure out how to use it

in your example above, is this what actually gets the html?

VB Code:

Private Sub Winsock_DataArrival(ByVal bytesTotal As Long)
Dim X As String
    Winsock.GetData X
End Sub

maybe there is an easier way? How would i get InnerHTML from webbrowser1... trying to do some research on this, haven't found anything useful yet.


- lol.. laptop is dieing, hope i figure this out before 8% of my battery runs out

WebBrowser1.Document.Body.parentElement.innerHTML

VB Code:

'' Jamie Plenderleith
'' [url]http://www.plenderj.com[/url]
''
Public Function strGetHTMLBasic(ByVal strURI As String, ByVal strCustomPOSTData As String) As String
        Dim objWebClient As HttpWebRequest = WebRequest.Create(strURI)
        If Not strCustomPOSTData = vbNullString Then
            Dim encoding As New ASCIIEncoding(), bteLength As Byte()
            strCustomPOSTData = EnsureHTTPEncoded(strCustomPOSTData)
            With objWebClient
                .Method = "POST"
                .ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
                bteLength = encoding.GetBytes(strCustomPOSTData)
                .ContentLength = bteLength.GetLength(0)
                Dim stmRequestWriter As New StreamWriter(.GetRequestStream, encoding.ASCII)
                stmRequestWriter.Write(strCustomPOSTData)
                stmRequestWriter.Close()
            End With
        End If
        Dim stmStreamReader As New StreamReader(objWebClient.GetResponse.GetResponseStream)
        Dim strRetVal As String = stmStreamReader.ReadToEnd
        stmStreamReader.Close() : Return strRetVal
    End Function
 
    Function EnsureHTTPEncoded(ByVal strString As String) As String
        Dim strRetVal As String
        If Not strString = vbNullString Then
            If Not InStr(strString, "&") = 0 Then
                Dim strArr() As String = Split(strString, "&")
                Dim strTemp As String, strTempArr() As String
                For Each strTemp In strarr
                    strTempArr = Split(strTemp, "=")
                    strRetVal &= HTTPEncode(strTempArr(0)) & "=" & HTTPEncode(strTempArr(1)) & "&"
                Next
                If Right(strRetVal, 1) = "&" Then strRetVal = Left(strRetVal, Len(strRetVal) - 1)
            Else
                Dim strArr() As String = Split(strString, "=")
                strRetVal = HTTPEncode(strarr(0)) & "=" & HTTPEncode(strarr(1))
            End If
        End If
        Return strRetVal
    End Function
 
    Function HTTPEncode(ByVal strString As String) As String
        Return HttpUtility.UrlEncode(strString)        
    End Function

Jamie, there's no StreamReader in Classic VB ;)

lol. Assumed this was .NET because the last post I saw about screen scraping had you in it too :D

Erm. Why not just use URLDownloadToFile? Search the forums, its an API. Download the source to your computer and load it in locally.

chem