Program to read a web page

[cmdematos]

I want to monitor several web pages on a regular basis that contain lists of information. Offcourse the web pages are meant for human consumption, but I want to write a program that will filter the lists for the information that I want and update a database with that information.

I am a seasoned programmer, but not on C# and not on this. If I can receive some pointers, or some sample code - thats about all I need to get started.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!

 

[crazyboybert]

The easiest way to do this is by HTML Screen Scraping. You can make a WebRequest (check out System.Net namespace) retrieve the WebResponse and then use regular expressions to filter the HTML to get the bits you want. This article should be plenty to get you started

http://www.devcity.net/net/article.aspx?alias=screen_scrape

Rob

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