Scraping is a common solution, but IMHO it should only be used when no other options exist (You shouldn't need to ask why... it fails miserably on the Performance, Availability and Maintainability scales).
If you can use an RSS/XML data feed, it would be the best option for you. If however, you must go with scraping, see this thread <http:// tinyurl.com/crj792> in which I have listed the prerequisites and steps to implement Screen scraping. On Sep 22, 2:01 pm, ZyRaIN <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > Have a question - hope that you can guide me in the right direction. > > I'm currently builden a releasesite - primarely a game release site. > > The project is coded in asp.net / C# with a mySql database. Currently > I'm manually typing the game info's into the database with images and > so on. But need to make this automatic - was in the beginning thinking > of using RSS/Xml but the rss feeds does not give me enought > information. > > How can I get these informations from another site maybe - reading > another site into a string will perhabs not be that hard todo - but > how do I then parse the text.. > > Any ideas or suggestions are more than welcome. > > Sincerely > > ZyRaIN > Denmark
