Get info from a websites source

Website source:

HTML Code:

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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>
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Some more content

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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;) ]

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

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

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Originally Posted by formlesstree4

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

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Thanks alot, i will see what i can do

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Originally Posted by dunfiddlin

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

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

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!)

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Originally Posted by 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!)

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His criteria was to not use it! :p
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 :D

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

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His criteria was to not use it!

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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 ...

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Originally Posted by dunfiddlin

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 ...

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formlesstree4 pulls up a chair
...go on

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Originally Posted by dunfiddlin

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 ...

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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.

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Originally Posted by vasil7112

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.

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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.

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Originally Posted by formlesstree4

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.

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

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