populating online text fields etc

hamilton · #1 (**permalink**) June 20th, 2007, 08:50 AM

Hi folks,

Hope you can help.
Is there a way, for example of filling out the textfield on google.co.uk and submitting the search from a c# programme?

Am fairly new to all this and appreciate any help you can give me.

Cheers
Robert

planoie · #2 (**permalink**) June 20th, 2007, 09:06 AM

You don't really need to "fill out" the page. You just create an HttpRequest with the POST method and containing the pertinent information (i.e. the search field with a value).

Easier than that would be to do a regular GET request to the search page. For example:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=wallace+%26+gromit

-Peter

joefawcett · #3 (**permalink**) June 20th, 2007, 09:16 AM

There is also the option of using the Google Web Services, these allow more sophisticated searches and the results come back in a more user friendy format.

--

Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

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