Re: WebBrowser component in VB

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"Claudia Fong" <cdolphin88@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> Hi,
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> I would like to know if is possible to use VB6 to get information from
> a webpage using the WebBrowser component.
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> I need to retrieve data from a webpage to store in my local database.
> For exemple, I do a search for books and the results will be stored in
> my db.
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> Can someone help me?
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> Cheers!
>
>    Claudi

You can grab the entire web page, place it in a string and parse out the 
parts you need. Here's some code to read the page. The parsing's up to you 
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Looking at the entire page as a string in a WebBrowser control
http://groups.google.com.my/group/microsoft.public.vb.controls/browse_frm/thread/2a196e8326d58dae

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