timed Posted February 21, 2003 Posted February 21, 2003 Yes, I want to learn how to do screen scrapes using vb.net. Can anyone point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance. Quote
Leaders quwiltw Posted February 21, 2003 Leaders Posted February 21, 2003 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:( Quote --tim
*Experts* Nerseus Posted February 21, 2003 *Experts* Posted February 21, 2003 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 Quote "I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center." - Kurt Vonnegut
timed Posted February 21, 2003 Author Posted February 21, 2003 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. Quote
Leaders quwiltw Posted February 22, 2003 Leaders Posted February 22, 2003 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. Quote --tim
KalenDB Posted August 20, 2003 Posted August 20, 2003 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 :confused: :D Quote
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