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[Cipher]

I am making a moneytree grabber for nps. I have their permission and I am triying to use the Mid function to get the ID of the items i want to grab.


Could someone help me
Go to this site
http://www.neopets.com/donations.phtml

I might have to use the len funcition to get the string first could someone please hlp me

Here is my code so far.:

Private Sub Command1_Click()
If Text1.Text = "" Then MsgBox " If you want to find a specific item. You must enter the ID"
Dim IID As String
IID = Text1.Text
DPage = Wrapper.PostWrapper("www.neopets.com/takedonation_new.phtml?donation_id=" & IID, "www.neopets.com/donations")
If Check1.Value = vbChecked Then Log.Text = "Grab Was Successful!(specific)"
End Sub

[Piller]

THis is a little off topic but i seriouslt doubt that they gave u permission to go and make a program that does work for u while ur sleeping....

[Cipher]

see it's kinda funny ..... THEY DID GIVE ME FREAKING PERMISSION SO JUST GIVE ME THE CODE...Geez I asked for help and this is what i get.

[manavo11]

see it's kinda funny ..... THEY DID GIVE ME FREAKING PERMISSION SO JUST GIVE ME THE CODE...Geez I asked for help and this is what i get.

Being polite can go a long way...

[Jacob Roman]

If they gave you permission and you don't even know how to do the simplest things for them, like getting ID tags on items, and went off on us like that who are trying to help you, then why did they give you permission to begin with?

Your solution is simple. Especially when all ID tags are the same length, which can easily be done using either the Len() function or if you know the length already (Like for example, 6), then using the Mid() function would be no problem. Just know where the starting position of the ID is in the string for Start and use Len(Length of ID Here) or the length number of the ID you already know for Length.

PS: Don't go off on us like that, especially me. My girlfriend of three years just broke up with me 2 days before Christmas, told me she was gay, admitted to lieing and cheating on me for the past few months, broke my trust, and as a result, put me through an emotional rollercoaster. I am not in the mood right now for that.

[Jacob Roman]

Maybe I should not talk about her anymore. Plus I think I went a little off topic.

[VIP3R]

Firs things first:
Piller, who the hell are you to question what he said. I don't recall you having magical powers that can tell lies from truth. When he said he got permission to create such a program, he never implied that he was hired to create a program FOR THEM. It's a program that he wants to make for himself or his friends. Manavo, don't post useless comments and not help out in the end. I see that Piller has less than 50 posts in this forum, and you're already criticizing and picking on people without being helpful, not that you have that right if you have 12893127301 posts, like Manavo. Who should know, as a moderator, to be a leader and not a follower.

Second of all:
Cipher, you can use a method that can grab anything between 2 words/strings. For example: 'THE FOLLOWING TEXT IS THE HTML!'. Let's say you want to get the word 'TEXT'. You'd send the function "THE FOLLOWING" and "IS THE HTML", and it will return "TEXT". Or you can send "FOLLOWING" and "IS", but that is less reliable when searching a huge HTML file. If you want to use such a method, tell me and I'll post some code. It worked for a few programs I made, as long as their html is consistent.

[manavo11]

This is what Viper is refering to : http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=316663

[Cipher]

I am sorry I went off like that.....Anyway the ID's are anchors...how do I grab the id's if i don't know where they start in the source code.

I have the page source but they cannot be grabbed. They are actualy links in the page and they have apperaed under links under "page info" in Mozilla/

[VIP3R]

Well, if they're links, they must have a base address, like http://neopets.com/tree.asp?id=XXXXXX. So you make this code grab what's inbetween http://neopets.com/tree.asp?id= and the ending of the hyperlink tag, which returns XXXXXX, the item ID. I'm really sorry that we can't just give you a method you can use. We don't really know what the HTML is like and if it will always be that way. Maybe if you can upload a few examples of the HTML, i don't have a neopets account !

[Cipher]

THis is what I get wehn I RightClick>>Page Source..in Mozilla

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The more items you take per day, the less chance of you picking something up.
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[Cipher]

Sorry for the dubble post...But There were too many chars to put in the first post.

These are the links I get when I go to Page Info:

http://www.neopets.com/takedonation_new.phtml?donation_id=12006554&xcn=2249309675&location_id=0
http://www.neopets.com/takedonation_new.phtml?donation_id=12006555&xcn=2249309675&location_id=0
http://www.neopets.com/takedonation_new.phtml?donation_id=12006556&xcn=2249309675&location_id=0
http://www.neopets.com/takedonation_new.phtml?donation_id=12006557&xcn=2249309675&location_id=0

THese are the links I want to get when my program runs. The above donations like /takedonation_new.phtml?