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[Bloodz_Ninja]

hey guys, id like to know a probably a snippet or a tutorial on how to grab text from a website in visual basic..
An example of a program will be something like a plagarism checker maybe.

thanks in advanced

[CodenStuff]

If you're using a Webbrowser control you can grab the content of elements on a webpage like this:

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WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("ID-of-the-element").GetAttribute("innerText")

Where "ID-of-the-element" would be the ID tag of whichever element you want to pull content from.

[Filip]

[/b]ID tag

ID attribute you mean?

[Bloodz_Ninja]

If you're using a Webbrowser control you can grab the content of elements on a webpage like this:

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WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("ID-of-the-element").GetAttribute("innerText")

Where "ID-of-the-element" would be the ID tag of whichever element you want to pull content from.

thanks man, but the thing is im not good with html or php so the ID thing is new to me. Mind giving an example?

[mikethedj4]

If you're using a Webbrowser control you can grab the content of elements on a webpage like this:

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WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("ID-of-the-element").GetAttribute("innerText")

Where "ID-of-the-element" would be the ID tag of whichever element you want to pull content from.

thanks man, but the thing is im not good with html or php so the ID thing is new to me. Mind giving an example?

It's been a loooong time since I touched VB but I'm proficient in HTML, CSS, and JS so I'll shed some light on that here. (See example weave/code on kodeWeave)

HTML = HyperText Markup Language

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<p id="t1"></p>
<p class="t2"></p>
<p data-call="txt"></p>
<p>
  <span></span>
</p>

In HTML you markup your content. Like on here we use....

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[b]bold[/b]

to make bold text. Similarly it's done in HTML (although all styling should be done in CSS, but that's a topic for another time).

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<strong>bold</strong>

There're many ways to select an element in JS and manipulate it aka DOM manipulation (which is poor in JS, main reason why ReactJS is so popular cause it uses a virtual DOM)

Here's an example of how you can select elements in JS and manipulate their content...

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var t1 = document.getElementById("t1"),
    t2 = document.querySelector(".t2"),
    t3 = document.querySelector("[data-call=txt]"),
    // t4 = document.querySelector("span"),
    t4 = document.getElementsByTagName("span")[0];

t1.innerText   = "Hello";
t2.textContent = "world";
t3.innerText   = "Hola";
t4.textContent = "mundo";