vb.net - Strip HTML from website

[MarkusJ_NZ]

This is a small function that allows a user to retrieve the text from a website minus the HTML.

Public Function RemoveHtml(ByVal sURL As String) As String
        Dim oHttpWebRequest As System.Net.HttpWebRequest
        Dim oStream As System.IO.Stream
        Dim sTemp As String
        oHttpWebRequest = (System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(sURL))
        Dim oHttpWebResponse As System.Net.WebResponse = oHttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
        oStream = oHttpWebResponse.GetResponseStream
        sTemp = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(New System.IO.StreamReader(oStream).ReadToEnd(), "<[^>]*>", "")
        oStream.Close()
        oHttpWebResponse.Close()
        Return sTemp
    End Function

To use it simply pass in the url of the website that you want to retrieve the text from

textbox1.text = RemoveHtml("http://www.vbforums.com")

Cheers
MarkusJ

[giodamelio]

I added a little to your code.

I added error handling and made using the http part of the url optional.

Public Function RemoveHtml(ByVal sURL As String) As String
        Dim sTemp As String = ""
        Try
            sURL = LCase(sURL)
            If Microsoft.VisualBasic.Left(sURL, 7) <> "http://" Then
                sURL = "http://" & sURL
            End If

            Dim oHttpWebRequest As System.Net.HttpWebRequest

            Dim oStream As System.IO.Stream



            oHttpWebRequest = (System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(sURL))

            Dim oHttpWebResponse As System.Net.WebResponse = oHttpWebRequest.GetResponse()

            oStream = oHttpWebResponse.GetResponseStream

            sTemp = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(New System.IO.StreamReader(oStream).ReadToEnd(), "<[^>]*>", "")

            oStream.Close()

            oHttpWebResponse.Close()
        Catch ex As Exception
            Console.WriteLine("Error: " & ex.Message)
        End Try
        Return sTemp

    End Function

[minitech]

Why not:

      Public Function RemoveHtml(ByVal sURL As String) As String
              Using wc As New Net.WebClient()
                      Return System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(New System.IO.StreamReader(wc.OpenRead(sURL)).ReadToEnd(), "<[^>]*>", "")
              End Using
          End Function

[dedeblank]

hi, how to add proxy to strip html,
thx

i mean use your code with proxy