Automatically interacting with a search engine...

25 Apr 2006 1:31 PM

almurph@altavista.com

Hi,

    I'm trying to use VB.NET to query a search engine. That is, open up a
URL put a search term in the field and press the return button. In
other word interact with existing software URLs, widgets etc, etc...
    Does anyone know hoe to do this? What classes shoud I be using in
VB.NET?

    Any help/assistance/code-samples would be much appreciated.

Cheers,
Al.

25 Apr 2006 2:10 PM

Curtis

It sounds like you want to display Html page that the search engine returns
back to the user so you will want to look webclient class
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.webclient.aspx. This
class will allow you to POST values to any URL and then you can display the
results back to the user.

Curtis

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> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use VB.NET to query a search engine. That is, open up a
> URL put a search term in the field and press the return button. In
> other word interact with existing software URLs, widgets etc, etc...
> Does anyone know hoe to do this? What classes shoud I be using in
> VB.NET?
>
> Any help/assistance/code-samples would be much appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>