Retrieve data off of websites

[Windsailor]

I would like to retrieve data off of websites and do this programmatically using vb.net; how would I go about this?

This is for a desktop app.

 

[Robert_Zenz]

Hello.

Depends on the website. First of all I'd use HTTPWebRequest and HTTPWebResponse to retrieve the site itself. Afterwards you'd have to work with the source of the site.

Bobby

 

[cjard]

Apparently, you can use the Jet database driver, with its data source mode set to html, and the source set to the URL. Jet will parse the tabular content and allow you to select data from them.. I use this but only on local files. A friend has written a program that retrieves data from shopping websites and performs price comparisons. Quite clever, I thought