Reading the source for a web page

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I need to create an app that will open a web page and read in the source for that page so I can extract some data from the page.

Can you point me to some refernce material that might help me get started?

Thank you.

Posted 3-Feb-12 17:02pm

rctaubert

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Chris Maunder · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-03T17:10:00

Solution 1

Web scraping[^]

Posted 3-Feb-12 17:10pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 4-Feb-12 2:49am

Correct, a 5.
I added my answer referencing my short but descriptive explanation of the techniques, please see.
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-03T20:47:00

Solution 2

As Chris says, this is called Web scraping.

Please see my past answers where I quickly describe what techniques are involved:
get specific data from web page[^],
How to get the data from another site[^].

—SA

Posted 3-Feb-12 20:47pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov