Re: VB. page grabber...
Jakob Faarvang (jakob@jubii.dk)
Mon, 6 May 1996 19:19:19 +0100
> >PS: Could I have references of that VB. freeware you are talking about ?
> Sound like something I'd like to get my hand on...
> >Attachment Converted: c:\pceud\attach\VB. page grabber...
> >
>
> I picked this up at Carl & Gary's VB page which is now maintained on Apex
> Software (True Grid, DB Grid) home page www.apexsc.com. In short, it is
> only a telnet control with enough code to generate a simple get.
>
> The root reference for Carl & Gary's is http://www.apexsc.com/vb/index.html
> [highly recommended]
>
> The link for the ZIP file of vb browser is
> ftp://ftp.apexsc.com/pub/cgvb/misc/vbrowser.zip
>
> The description is
> VBROWSER.ZIP 57K (11-13-95)
> VBrowser is a VB Web browser with source code and a Winsock VB
> programming explanation. No HTML parsing is done, but the complete Winsock
> HTML document retrieval is implemented. It's shareware. Just unzip and
> open the VB project. An EXE is also provided for load and run.
>
> If any of you know of more sophisticated stuff out there, drop me a line.
> I'm keeping track of this for a client.
We've written our robot in VB. It scans something like 25,000 pages
per day on a P200 machine (that also runs other stuff). It supports
robot exclusion, etc.
No plans for selling or giving away the code or software.
- Jakob