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Explorer SIG
Location: Room 2
Date: Tuesday, June 13
Topic: Screen Scraping for the Web
Rob Windsor, G6 Consulting
http://www.g6consulting.com

This session will discuss how we can use Delphi, Internet Explorer (IE) and IE's Document Object Model (DOM) to automate retreiving information from HTML pages on the internet.

 
References: "Parsing the Web" by Richard Phillips
from the May 2000 Delphi Informant
http://www.delphizine.com/features/2000/05/di200005rp_f/di200005rp_f.asp

"Scraping Web Pages" by Jeremy Rule
(NOTE: VB Example code given)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/browser/scrape.asp

"Instant IE4 Dynamic HTML" by Alex Homer and Chris Ullman
WROX Press
http://www.wrox.com/Consumer/Store/Details.asp?ISBN=1861000685

 
Files: Explorer200006rw.zip (6 Kb)
The example code Rob used in his presentation.

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