Making webbrowser focus on one part of a website

[TeachMeVB]

Hey

Can anyone tell me / help me find the solution to this:

Is there anyway i can have a webbrowser only show the top two or three tweets from a twitter account? (https://twitter.com/pewdiepie)
Like, remove all the other objects on the page, and then center the tweets in the webbrowser?

Im kinda guessing that without some hardcore coding i will only be able to show ALL the tweets, not just the two or three newest.

Here is a code i found for hiding website objects from being shown in the browser:

Dim ele = _
            ( _
                From X In WebBrowser3.Document.GetElementsByTagName("div").Cast(Of HtmlElement)() _
                Where X.GetAttribute("id") = "[ID OF ELEMENT]" Select X
            ).FirstOrDefault

        If ele IsNot Nothing Then
            ele.Style = "Display:none"
        End If

I don't know how this works, but if there would be any options like replacing

ele.Style = "Display:none"

with

ele.Style = "Display:only"

or something like that, to only show the object in question, we would be half way there :P

Anyone got any ideas? Thanks for all replies. (I apologize for my bad english)

[TeachMeVB]

Anyone? :O

[dunfiddlin]

I have to say I can't really see any point to this but I did try a few ideas without success. If you wanted to extract the first few and transfer them to a new page or another control that would probably be possible but if you want to retain the rest of the page then it looks like a bit of a dead end.

[TeachMeVB]

I have to say I can't really see any point to this but I did try a few ideas without success. If you wanted to extract the first few and transfer them to a new page or another control that would probably be possible but if you want to retain the rest of the page then it looks like a bit of a dead end.

I wouldn't neccesarily need to keep the tweets in the webbrowser. I could just set that to webbrowser.visible = false then have the tweets show up in some other kind of control. (Like putting them in labels.)

The main point is that i need the two or three (Hopefully three) tweets to show up somewhere so you can easily read it.

[dunfiddlin]

Ok here you go. The function returns HTML so show the results in a webbrowser (wb1 in this case)

Public Class Form1
 
    Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        wb1.DocumentText = ""
        wb1.Document.Write(Get3Tweets("https://twitter.com/pewdiepie"))
    End Sub
 
    Private Function Get3Tweets(ByVal url As String) As String
        Dim wc As New Net.WebClient
        Dim htm = wc.DownloadString(url)
        Dim wb As New WebBrowser With {.DocumentText = ""}
        wb.Document.Write(htm)
        Dim tweets = From t In wb.Document.GetElementsByTagName("p") Where CType(t, HtmlElement).GetAttribute("classname") = "js-tweet-text"
        Dim s As New System.Text.StringBuilder
        For i = 0 To 2
            s.Append("<p>" & CType(tweets(i), HtmlElement).InnerHtml)
        Next
        wb.Dispose()
        Return s.ToString
    End Function
End Class

[TeachMeVB]

Ok here you go. The function returns HTML so show the results in a webbrowser (wb1 in this case)

Well... Ehm... minor problem. (Unrelated to the code you sent me) but im still gonna ask:

I have two groupboxes that show statistics and ranking. The webbrowser "wb1" is layed on top of those.
I was planing to hide the groupboxes by "GroupBox1.visible = false" and "GroupBox2.visible = false". And set the webbrowser to visible = true.

But the webbrowser is apperantly "connected" to the groupboxes as if it is a control within them. And when i hide the groupboxes, the webbrowser doesn't show because of it.

Can i seperate the webbrowser from the groupboxes somehow? (While having both the groupboxes and the webbrowser at the same location?

[TeachMeVB]

Nevermind. Fixed it.
Used alot of [Name of control].location = New Point(#, #)

[batori]

I've been trying to adopt dunfiddlin code to be able to get data back from :

<div class="content"> some text <br /></div>

...but i'm having a hard time. could someone guide me to the solution?

[dunfiddlin]

If you can guide me to the problem!

[batori]

hehe

well, im trying to get the the "some text" from the

<div class="content"> some text <br /></div>

i tried changing

("classname") = "js-tweet-text"

to

("classname") = "content"

but no luck. did other changes to but none seemed to work