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    grab text from a wepage?

    any idea how i would get the text for a web page, in vb you can use the webbrowser control to navigate to a page then grab the text, not the html , from that page?

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    Use curl or wget
    If you want to write code, use libcurl

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    ok thanks, i need to fastest possible way, think this would do what about winhttp?

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    Yeah, sure, why not.

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    dont suppose you have an example?

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    Quote Originally Posted by joeyzt
    dont suppose you have an example?
    I'm sure Google will have.
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    > i need to fastest possible way
    Your fastest way seems to be getting someone to do your work for you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ahluka
    I'm sure Google will have.
    have googled, msn search, yahood for about an hour, nothing...

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    Maybe the first hit of my first google search ("c c++ programming winhttp") will help: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ut_winhttp.asp
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    cheers guys, absolutely useless or non information as usual.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by joeyzt
    cheers guys, absolutely useless or non information as usual.....
    The link dwks has given you is as silver a platter as it can get. I know you want just copy and paste code, but you're not going to learn from that. As things get more advanced, you'll find less and less copy and pastable code, so why not start now, and read?

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    Since the OP has demonstrated a complete lack of being able to do anything other than wait to be spoon-fed....
    Closed.

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