Question Reading Internet Explorer's load bar

[djm418]

I have a web scraping application.

This app uses Interop.SHDocVw.dll reference to create an instance of Internet Explorer. In order to navigate to the sites in which I need to retrieve data from.

However my loading process is rather simplistic because I honestly cannot figure out another more effective way to read when the page loads.

I have a function that simply waits to see if the document has been loaded

Dim xDocLoaded as Boolean = false
Dim wait as Integer = 15
Dim start as DateTime
Dim xMatchURL, xMatchURL2 as string

xMatchURL = "www.google.com"
xMatchURL2 = "www.google.com"

Do Until xDocLoaded
Application.DoEvents()
Threading.Thread.Sleep(100)

If start.AddSeconds(wait) < Now Then
result = False
Exit Do
End If
Loop

if xMatchURL = xMatchURL2 Then
return True
else
return False
end if


Is there anyway to read the Internet Explorer load / status bar to tell when the page has completed loading?