Screen Scrapes

[timed]

Yes, I want to learn how to do screen scrapes using vb.net. Can anyone point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance.

 

[quwiltw]

I'd start here and combine this info with *lots* of regular expressions...
http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/howto/doc/WebRequests/clientGET.aspx

I've assumed you're talking about scraping web sites, but after posting this noticed it's under windows forms. If you're asking about "real" screen scraping, then I've not clue

 

[Nerseus]

Yes, we need more info. Are you screen scraping a website, a Telnet address, just a blob of text, or an actual screenshot (just pixels)? If it's just pixels, you're in for a world of hurt. If it's a blob of text (such as reading screens from 1320 terminals or somesuch), you might be able to use regular expression. For website scraping, I have no idea though I know people have done it...

-Nerseus

 

[timed]

Sorry about the lack of information. Yes I would like to grag text from other websites or even AS400 terminals if possible. Thanks for the help.

 

[quwiltw]

I'm not sure about AS400 terminals, which you'd have to do a different way. But grabbing text from other sites can be done as I described above. Use the WebRequest class to get the contents of the page then use regular expressions to parse through it and grab the chunk you need.

 

[KalenDB]

Are you screen scraping a website, a Telnet address, just a blob of text, or an actual screenshot (just pixels)?
-Nerseus

Have you got any example code on how to telnet scrape, not having much luck myself.

Anything would be appreciated

A rather confused junior developer