Reading Text

Alright well I'm trying to navigate to a webpage and read text from it. I know how to get button ids and use those but I don't know how to read text from the site. How would I go about doing that?

I don't understand what you're trying to do but i think i do. If a webpage loads too slow it shows up as text. Just refresh the page and it shows the site as normal

Originally Posted by ForrestGump

I don't understand what you're trying to do but i think i do. If a webpage loads too slow it shows up as text. Just refresh the page and it shows the site as normal

If he had that sort of problem, don't you think it would be in a different section? And even if he did have that problem, don't you think he would have been smart enough to REFRESH before posting..? T_T

What the hell are you talking about? I want to read text off a webpage. I want to get specific text at a specific place on a webpage like getting a button's ID and reading it. I want to get text ID and read it.

Get the innerHTML property of the area you want, or use RegEx.

Multiple ways of doing it.

Get a page source:

[php]
Private Function GetSource(ByVal myURL as string) As String
Using wc As New Net.WebClient
return wc.DownloadString(myURL)
End Using
End Function
[/php]

Or create a webbrowser control to interact with the HTML document (so you can do things such as "GetElementsByTagName" etc etc)

OR httpwebreq

[php]
Private Function GetPageSource(ByVal URL As String) as string
Dim webReq As Net.HttpWebRequest = DirectCast(Net.Webrequest.Create(URL), net.httpwebrequest)
Dim webResp As Net.HttpWebResponse = DirectCast(webReq.GetResponse, net.httpwebresponse)
Using sRead As New IO.StreamReader(webResp.GetResponseStream)
Return sRead.ReadToEnd
End Using
End Function
End Using
[/php]

Options are there.

WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("ID").SetAttri bute("value", "textbox1.text")

should work

Trevor- text doesn't have an ID like a button does.

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