Weather board, how to get html data.

Depends if you are talking about text adjacent to the picture or Alernate
text, iether way you will need to scrape the site and parse the text. Seach
for web scraping on google.

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"Boki" <bo******@ms21. hinet.net> wrote in message
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Hi All,

I am going to create a personal weather board.

It is easy to show the picutre on website ( just link the picture to
picturesbox's properties )

but I dont' know how to add some other text near by..

for example:

I can get the weather icon, but I don't know how to get the description
text...

What should I do?

Best regards,
Boki.

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:46:29 +0800, Boki <bo******@ms21. hinet.net>
wrote:

Hi All,

I am going to create a personal weather board.

It is easy to show the picutre on website ( just link the picture to
picturesbox' s properties )

but I dont' know how to add some other text near by..

for example:

I can get the weather icon, but I don't know how to get the description
text...

What should I do?

Best regards,
Boki.

Don't know where you are, but if in the U.S. the NWS has several XML
feeds which make it very easy to use directly in a app. Here is a
current observation example:
http://www.weather.gov/data/current_obs/KSFO.xml

Gene

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On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:46:29 +0800, Boki <bo******@ms21. hinet.net>
wrote:

Hi All,

I am going to create a personal weather board.

It is easy to show the picutre on website ( just link the picture to
picturesbox' s properties )

but I dont' know how to add some other text near by..

for example:

I can get the weather icon, but I don't know how to get the description
text...

What should I do?

Best regards,
Boki.

Don't know where you are, but if in the U.S. the NWS has several XML
feeds which make it very easy to use directly in a app. Here is a
current observation example:
http://www.weather.gov/data/current_obs/KSFO.xml

Gene

I use InStr() to search WebBrowser1.Doc umentText, could you please
advice how to search the XML data tag? ( a better way than InStr() )..

Best regards,
Boki.

Boki,

To read an unknown xml document is this probably the easiest method

http://www.vb-tips.com/default.aspx?...a-22589f018cd4

I hope this helps,

Cor

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gene kelley ??:

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:46:29 +0800, Boki <bo******@ms21. hinet.net>
wrote:

Hi All,

I am going to create a personal weather board.

It is easy to show the picutre on website ( just link the picture to
picturesbox' s properties )

but I dont' know how to add some other text near by..

for example:

I can get the weather icon, but I don't know how to get the description
text...

What should I do?

Best regards,
Boki.

Don't know where you are, but if in the U.S. the NWS has several XML
feeds which make it very easy to use directly in a app. Here is a
current observation example:
http://www.weather.gov/data/current_obs/KSFO.xml

Gene

I use InStr() to search WebBrowser1.Doc umentText, could you please
advice how to search the XML data tag? ( a better way than InStr() )..

Best regards,
Boki.

Hi,

I have used the yahoo weather rss for this. They have a
weather sticker embedded in it. The address for the rss feed has a
querystring for getting the weather. In the us use your zipcode for getting
the weather. This example requires a textbox (txtZip) for entering in a
zipcode to get the weather for, webbrowser control to display the weather
sticker, and a button (btnGetWeather) .

Private Sub btnGetWeather_C lick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e
As System.EventArg s) Handles btnGetWeather.C lick
Dim sr As IO.StreamReader
Dim wc As New System.Net.WebC lient
Dim strUrl As String
Dim strOut As String = ""
strUrl =
String.Format(" http://xml.weather.yah oo.com/forecastrss?p={ 0}", txtZip.Text)

Try
sr = New IO.StreamReader (wc.OpenRead(st rUrl))
Dim strHtml As String = sr.ReadToEnd
Dim x As Integer = strHtml.IndexOf ("<img src")
Dim y As Integer = strHtml.IndexOf (")<br/>")
strOut = strHtml.Substri ng(x, y - x + 6)
sr.Close()
Catch
strOut = "<h1>Error getting weather</h1>"
Finally
WebBrowser1.Doc umentText = strOut
End Try
End Sub

Ken
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"Boki" <bo******@ms21. hinet.net> wrote in message
news:OL******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P02.phx.gbl...

Hi All,

I am going to create a personal weather board.

It is easy to show the picutre on website ( just link the picture to
picturesbox's properties )

but I dont' know how to add some other text near by..

for example:

I can get the weather icon, but I don't know how to get the description
text...

What should I do?

Best regards,
Boki.

"Boki" <bo******@ms21. hinet.net> schrieb:

I am going to create a personal weather board.

It is easy to show the picutre on website ( just link the picture to
picturesbox's properties )

but I dont' know how to add some other text near by..

for example:

I can get the weather icon, but I don't know how to get the description
text...

Parsing an HTML file:

MSHTML Reference
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft. com/library/default.asp?url =/workshop/browser/mshtml/reference/reference.asp>

- or -

..NET Html Agility Pack: How to use malformed HTML just like it was
well-formed XML...
<URL:http://blogs.msdn.com/smourier/archive/2003/06/04/8265.aspx>

Download:

<URL:http://www.codefluent. com/smourier/download/htmlagilitypack .zip>

- or -

SgmlReader 1.4
<URL:http://www.gotdotnet.c om/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?Sa mpleGuid=B90FDD CE-E60D-43F8-A5C4-C3BD760564BC>

If the file read is in XHTML format, you can use the classes contained in
the 'System.Xml' namespace for reading information from the file.

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"Ken Tucker [MVP]" <vb***@bellsout h.net> wrote in message
news:eL******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP02.phx.gbl...

Hi,

I have used the yahoo weather rss for this. They have a
weather sticker embedded in it. The address for the rss feed has a
querystring for getting the weather. In the us use your zipcode for
getting the weather. This example requires a textbox (txtZip) for entering
in a zipcode to get the weather for, webbrowser control to display the
weather sticker, and a button (btnGetWeather) .

Private Sub btnGetWeather_C lick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e
As System.EventArg s) Handles btnGetWeather.C lick
Dim sr As IO.StreamReader
Dim wc As New System.Net.WebC lient
Dim strUrl As String
Dim strOut As String = ""
strUrl =
String.Format(" http://xml.weather.yah oo.com/forecastrss?p={ 0}",
txtZip.Text)

Try
sr = New IO.StreamReader (wc.OpenRead(st rUrl))
Dim strHtml As String = sr.ReadToEnd
Dim x As Integer = strHtml.IndexOf ("<img src")
Dim y As Integer = strHtml.IndexOf (")<br/>")
strOut = strHtml.Substri ng(x, y - x + 6)
sr.Close()
Catch
strOut = "<h1>Error getting weather</h1>"
Finally
WebBrowser1.Doc umentText = strOut
End Try
End Sub

Ken

Neat Ken!!! And works well.
james

(not the original poster, but, someone who appreciates interesting code!)

You can try SWExplorerAutom ation (http:\\webunit testing.com).

On 18 Apr 2006 01:03:50 -0700, "Boki" <bo******@ms21. hinet.net> wrote:

gene kelley ???

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:46:29 +0800, Boki <bo******@ms21. hinet.net>
wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I am going to create a personal weather board.
>
>It is easy to show the picutre on website ( just link the picture to
>picturesbox' s properties )
>
>but I dont' know how to add some other text near by..
>
>for example:
>
>I can get the weather icon, but I don't know how to get the description
>text...
>
>What should I do?
>
>Best regards,
>Boki.

Don't know where you are, but if in the U.S. the NWS has several XML
feeds which make it very easy to use directly in a app. Here is a
current observation example:
http://www.weather.gov/data/current_obs/KSFO.xml

Gene

I use InStr() to search WebBrowser1.Doc umentText, could you please
advice how to search the XML data tag? ( a better way than InStr() )..

Best regards,
Boki.

As noted in other responses, you would want to read the XML elements
directly (XML Reader Class). Has nothing to do with a WebBrowser.

Gene