Re: HTML parsing
worlman385@yahoo.com wrote:
I need to parse the following HTML page and extract TV listing data
using VC++
any good way to extract the data?
http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCGrid.do
is easy for VC++ to call PERL script and do some regular expression?
since the HTML page is not XML well formed, I cannot use a XML parser
right?
any other good ways to extract HTML page data?
The "Windows Way" is to use a WebBrowser control (the guts of IE) to browse
to the page, then interrogate the page via the HTML DOM that the web browser
control exposes. You can do this from any language, although it's somewhat
easier to do from a scripting language than from C++. You don't have to
display the web page in order to access it through the web browser control.
For managed code, you can use the System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser control.
For native code, you can use the COM class directly, or any of a wide
variety of wrappers. Try searching www.codeproject.com for "web browser
control" for a few places to start.
-cd
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