Getting a section of a site into a label

Hey guys,

I have been trying for days now to get just one part of a webpage into a label <div class="c411ListingEntry">

</div>

basically i want to get everything listed in that div call into a label (the div class is all text anyways)

Thanks in advance

here is the code im using so far but i just want to get the <div class='c411ListingEntry'>

vb Code:

Public Function DownloadHTMLPage(ByVal _URL As String) As String
        Dim _PageContent As String = Nothing
        Try
            ' Open a connection
            Dim _HttpWebRequest As System.Net.HttpWebRequest = CType(System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(_URL), System.Net.HttpWebRequest)
 
           
            ' set timeout for 10 seconds (Optional)
            _HttpWebRequest.Timeout = 10000
 
            ' Request response:
            Dim _WebResponse As System.Net.WebResponse = _HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
 
            ' Open data stream:
            Dim _WebStream As System.IO.Stream = _WebResponse.GetResponseStream()
 
            ' Create reader object:
            Dim _StreamReader As New System.IO.StreamReader(_WebStream)
 
            ' Read the entire stream content:
            _PageContent = _StreamReader.ReadToEnd()
 
            ' Cleanup
            _StreamReader.Close()
            _WebStream.Close()
            _WebResponse.Close()
        Catch _Exception As Exception
            ' Error
            Console.WriteLine("Exception caught in process: {0}", _Exception.ToString())
            Return Nothing
        End Try
 
        Return _PageContent
    End Function

And you're stuck where?
Just need to find the text "<div class="c411ListingEntry">", and get all the text until the </div>, if you don't have other div's inside...

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Originally Posted by mickey_pt

And you're stuck where?
Just need to find the text "<div class="c411ListingEntry">", and get all the text until the </div>, if you don't have other div's inside...

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yea i know but im having trouble coding that to make it just get the starting of the c411ListingEntry then end at <div> and i also want it to remove all <a> <br> <div> after

Code:

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            ' Read the entire stream content:
      _PageContent = _StreamReader.string

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Any help

You could use RegEx to do that, other way it's just use string find and replace you need a lot more code than the RegEx version...

A simple example to get the content of the div, assuming that you don't have any div's inside this one:

vb.net Code:

Dim divToFind As String = "<div class=""c411ListingEntry"">"
Dim divContent As String = _PageContent.Substring(_PageContent.IndexOf(divToFind) + divToFind.Length, _PageContent.IndexOf("</div>") - _PageContent.IndexOf(divToFind) + divToFind.Length) 'I'm assuming that there isn't any DIV inside this DIV
divContent.Replace("<br />", String.Empty) 'Replace NewLines with nothing

The only problem it's that for each <a> tag you need to get the size of it, to know exactly what you have to remove...