<SNIP> > A friend of mine reckons it's something to do with 'ripping the html' from > the web page?, but hey what does he know? :o)
Well, he knows what it takes to do the job you are asking. You see, many sites just don't have an "API" so to speak and you have to do what is called HTML scraping. A cool utility called YahooPops does it to work with Yahoo mail. My first suggestion would be to get the extIEParserV2 from the delphi-webbrowser Yahoo group, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-webbrowser; you need to be a member but it's free. Look in the Files section. This control fires an even for certain tags. You can also extend it even further by adding tags to the parser. Now, you should also study the structure of the sites you want to parse, such as eBay. You MUST remember that HTML is not structtured and can be written in haphazzard ways. That is why it is so difficult to work with outside a browser. To submit data to the pagesomethimes works, sometimes doesn't. It depends upon several factors and one of them is the server and what it is expecting from the client. Some servers may be expecting a cookie, some may only be expecting the postdata or get variables. Some asp sites expect a session variable. Now, do you see why it is so difficult? Let me say that if you are only going to be working with eBay, they have an SDK and you need to join the eBay developers group to get it. John Kaster of Borland wrote some stuff using the eBay SDK on CodeCentral, Of course, it is in D7 but should translate fairly easily. Good luck... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
