Question Open Link Automaticaly and Grab Text

Haxaro

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My friend challanged me to make a quick app that will create 3 random letters, and search google with it which i can do. It is then ment to open the first link, and grab a sentance, or a group of words randomly. Is it possible to do this, and if so, how?

Thanks SO much!
 

rcombs4

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VB.NET:
Net.WebClient.DownloadString(URL)

Is a fun little function that will download the contents of a webpage to a string. That should be a great starting point.
 

JohnH

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If you don't feel like parsing Html code you can use the WebBrowser control and access its Document object and the node tree.
 
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