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Oct 31 2008   6:17AM GMT

Using Internet Explorer objects to scrape links from web pages.



Posted by: Jerry Lees
web tools, web sites, wget, Web Pages, InternetExplorer.Application

 Recently, I needed to write a tool that would scrape the links from a page. To accomplish this I used the Internet Explorer object “InternetExplorer.Application“.  We’ll explain it a bit more in a later entry but for now, take a look at the code below:

URL = “http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itblogs/“

With CreateObject(”InternetExplorer.Application”)
  .Navigate URL
  Do Until .ReadyState = 4
    Wscript.sleep 10
  Loop
  for each link in .document.links
    Wscript.echo link, link.InnerText
  next

‘ Uncomment the three lines below to scrape references to images
‘  for each pix in .document.images
‘  Wscript.echo pix.src
‘  Next
 
  .Quit
End With

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