Connect to a website

[spydermonkey]

Can someone lead me to a tutorial on how to parse a website?

Virtually take a URL and print back the source code?

I'm rather knew to VB6.

Thanks.

 

[bjd4jc]

look into using the winsock control or the Microsoft Internet Controls.

 

[fischadler]

You should use the XMLHTTP reference which you should be able to download from Microsoft.

Here's an example about how to use it:

Public Function SendCommand(URLCommand) As String
Dim HttpReq As New MSXML2.XMLHTTP40
HttpReq.Open "GET", URLCommand, False

HttpReq.send
SendCommand = HttpReq.responseText
End Function

You just need to pass the url as a the URLCommand parameter and the function will return the source code.
If the source code is dynamic (such as an ASP page) you will need to also pass a random value querystring parameter together with the URL. Otherwise it will always give you the same source code.