Getting information from a website?
Well, first, hello everyone! Nice to meet you all!
Now, here's my problem:
So, i want to make a program that will take information from a website and process it.
I don't really want to ask about the processing part, because that's easy. The hard part is getting information from the website:
I want to receive a specific string that appears from time to time and changes each time. For example: At one moment it says "Fishes are red" and the other it says "Dogs are blue". So, i want to receive that string and store it somewhere so i can process it.
Also, is there any way to make the program "save" data on the HD? How can i do that?
Also, can i split a string into two? For example: "Get carrots" or "Absorb chairs". I want to split the verb from the noun. How could i do that?
TL;DR: Want to receive text from website, split it, process it and save it somewhere on the HD.
Now, here's my problem:
So, i want to make a program that will take information from a website and process it.
I don't really want to ask about the processing part, because that's easy. The hard part is getting information from the website:
I want to receive a specific string that appears from time to time and changes each time. For example: At one moment it says "Fishes are red" and the other it says "Dogs are blue". So, i want to receive that string and store it somewhere so i can process it.
Also, is there any way to make the program "save" data on the HD? How can i do that?
Also, can i split a string into two? For example: "Get carrots" or "Absorb chairs". I want to split the verb from the noun. How could i do that?
TL;DR: Want to receive text from website, split it, process it and save it somewhere on the HD.
closed account (jwkNwA7f)
Save the data on the HD: http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/files/
Sorry, can't help with the rest. Hope this helped!
Sorry, can't help with the rest. Hope this helped!
Getting website data is mostly dependent on the platform. There are a handful of libraries out there that can help though. I found a lot of code examples here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1011339/how-do-you-make-a-http-request-with-c
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1011339/how-do-you-make-a-http-request-with-c
closed account (jwkNwA7f)
Yeah, using the hypertext transfer protocol and Winsock is going to be very advanced.
Welp, back to learning then.
Thanks anyway guys.
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Thanks anyway guys.
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