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Does anyone know how to use Visual Basic to get text from a website?

I am writing a program and I need to use a page that is constantly updating for reference. I need to know how to tell the program to go to a site and save the text (just text) as a .txt file.

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Mak' offline Verified User (1 year, 3 months) Long Term User Shouts: 22 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 2 months ago (13 minutes after post)

Can you elaborate, I’m not sure I follow what you’re doing. I’m not sure if .net has any faculties for parsing html, but you could always use the classes in the System.net namespace to download the html and parse it yourself.

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griffonlord offline Verified User (1 year, 3 months) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 2 months ago (1 hour, 14 minutes after post)

I am making a program to calculate a # based on certain values in an XML feed. I need to copy the text into a .txt file and extract values.

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Mak' offline Verified User (1 year, 3 months) Long Term User Shouts: 22 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 2 months ago (1 hour, 33 minutes after post)

Oh well that makes it much easier. You can use System.xml.XmlTextReader to parse the xml and pull the values out. There’s probably no need to copy it into a file unless you absolutely have to. You are using Vb .net right?

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griffonlord offline Verified User (1 year, 3 months) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 2 months ago (1 day after post)

Yah.

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 2 months ago (1 day, 1 hour after post)

Then what? How do I get it off the website?

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Mak' offline Verified User (1 year, 3 months) Long Term User Shouts: 22 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 2 months ago (2 days, 23 hours after post)

Construct the XmlTextReader with the url of the rss feed. Then you can use the read() method to grab each successive node in the stream. The values of the current node are then exposed as properties in the reader object.

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 2 months ago (3 days, 11 hours after post)

Great, thanks.

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