I want to Web Scrape an Inputted CallSign and return the Name of its owner.
What I have tried:
It sounds like it should be easy to find a simple solution using VB to perform this task but I'm not having any luck figuring it out. After scouring of the web, there seems to be a hundred different ways of doing this. A lot of it is obsolete, over kill, or seems incomplete. I would like to use the HTML-Agility Pack, LINQ, and the website's API to do this from VB code if possible.
I've tried every way I could find with no luck. Can I run it from a VB Form or does the code need to be in a Module? Would it be better to use C#, Python, or a JavaScript and add another Project to my Solutions? Do I save it to a html or text file? What is the easiest and/or best route?
I need to Input a "CallSign" on this page...
"https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/searchLicense.jsp"
And download and save the Result.jsp page with the result...
"https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/results.jsp"
I then want to display the Name in a Label.
I'm not exactly sure how to "Post and Get". You can test it out by inputting a callsign formatted like... "KB3" + 3 more Letters... under License Search and click Search. That gives me everything in the "Inspect... Network" that I need, I think. It can return an error, "No matches found", if nobody has that callsign or Entry. There is a Search Field on the Result.jsp page. Would it be better to search from there? Thanks for any help.