Reading Data using TIdHttp

[Zoiked]

I am using the Indy TIdHTTP Component to read data from the website

http://hiscore.runescape.com/hiscorepersonal.ws?user1=zezima

and then displaying the scores in Textbox's.

So far I have this code which gets the site and then posts the source into a Rich Text Box.

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
  LContent, URL : String;
begin
  URL := '[URL unfurl="true"]http://hiscore.runescape.com/hiscorepersonal.ws?user1=zezima';[/URL]
  LContent := idHttp.Get(URL);
  RichEdit1.Text := LContent;

end;

How could I search through this code and strip out the info I need to display in Text Boxes?

Thanks.

 

[Stretchwickster]

What you are trying to do can be achieved by a technique called page-scraping. Click this google link to investigate further: [google]delphi page-scraping[/google]

Clive

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[Stretchwickster]

Sorry, I should have said that page-scraping is basically where you search for specific html tags and extract the data from them.

The following are a couple of other Tek-Tips threads on the subject (from other related forums):
- thread253-1323791
- thread253-1357110

Clive

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"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer." (Paul Ehrlich)
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To get the best answers from this forum see: faq102-5096