Newbie needs guidance on the next step past GUI--Importing Stock Data into App
I'm taking a VB class for financial analysts, and we're tasked with constructing a progrm we can use on the job. What I'm trying to do is build a VB program that will take Stock and Company information from certain sites on the Internet and extracting that information into the program to do some research on a company before investing. I have some grand plans, but based upon what I have read/heard on this forum I'm taking stock information from two websites (Yahoo Finance and Reuters) and populate several different tabs in this program I'm making (exporting to an Access database and Excel are also in the works, but I think I can figure that out).
I built the GUI with 4 different tabs that will house Earnings data, Trading Information, Company News, and Insider information that can be pulled from these two sites. I've attached the GUI to help give the flavor for what I'm trying to do. Here's an example of the sites I'm looking to grab data from (using COH as an example):
I found a nifty little app that converts websites to DHTML and saves it on your PC in txt format, so I have decoded at least to that point.
So here's my question. I know the basics of looping, arrays, procedures and functions, but I don't know where to begin on how to import web data into my little text boxes. It would seem like there's lots of different ways to do it, but I'm just looking for a gentle nudge in the right direction on the process by which I would go about doing this. Could somebody outline this for me? I'd really appreciate any guidance that could be provided.
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