Hi all ,Please help...

I want to know how to retreive information from a differant web site.
i.e: Put currency rates on my web site from a differant web site.

I know it's possible,but what the options?

Hello,

Either than copying/pasting, which could break copyright info, if you know of a web service, you can use that, using any language that supports it. There are quite a bit, such as Java, .NET languages, etc.

Brian

betzy:

I think what your asking is how to retreive information via http request?

If so, there are several components. Java has a HttpURLConnection class you can use. I've also automated Internet Explorer, to mention a couple of free options. There are also a few components out there for sale or free.

You can also do a google search for "Screen Scraping"

Cheers,

David

thanks

Acctualy what I wnat to do is to take data ,like weather for example from another web site like CNN.com and the data will be shown in my page.

I know it's possible...

By the way I'm talking about Visual Studio 6.

Exactly,

Basically, you want to retreive the page where the data is on, in this case CNN.com, and parse that page to remove the data you're not interested in. You'd be doing the same thing your browser does to retreive the page, which is to generate an http request. The result will be returned in the form of HTML (which is interpreted by the browser), you would then parse out the unwanted HTML, leaving only what you're interested in, and in your web page (which will probably be asp, php, jsp or some cgi), include the parsed html. Bear in mind that you will not be able to do this in a static html page.

My answer above applies. You need an object to perform the http request and retreive the CNN page. You can also automate Internet Explorer.

Give me an idea of what environment you are using and perhaps I can recommend the best way to go about it



thanks

Keep in mind- what you want to do - *Is likely to be a copyright violation*. Not something anyone should condone- especially people in an industry that rely on copyright protections for their own work.



Hal Levy
Web Developer, PDI Inc.

NOT a Wiley/Wrox Employee

Betzy,

Hal has a point. If I remember correctly, from past experience, CNN has an agreement where they allow you to use their content provided you include links to their site. You can always check with them.

That said, you have another post on this topic, there I provided you with some sample code that should help you accomplish this.


thanks

I'm using Visual Studio 6 which means ASP 3.0.

Lets assume I'm doing as you said.
What happens if they are changing the structure of that specifc page,and I have a code to retreive the data.All thing won't work,right?