automate internet explore to do google search...help

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trint

I need to search for a certain product in Google (automatically) and
then take the Name, Address and Phone#'s off of each search results
and store them in this format:

Name:
Address:
Phone#:

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Trint
 
Hi there,

Have you tried or considered using Accesibility API to "automate" the
browser window?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/default.aspx

Cheers,

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Angel J. Hernández M
MCP,MCAD,MCSD,MCDBA
Microsoft MVPhttp://www.ajhsis.comhttp://msmvps.com/blogs/angelhernandez






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Here is what I'm trying to do with my program:

1. Start Google.com:

object loc = "http://
www.google.com/";
object null_obj_str = "";
System.Object null_obj = 0;
this.axWebBrowser1.Navigate2(ref loc , ref null_obj, ref null_obj,
ref null_obj_str, ref null_obj_str);

2. Then start a search for all cargo ship companies:
2a. This works great because it starts a sight that has all the cargo
ship companies that I need on the page it finds and then starts:


HTMLInputElement otxtSearchBox = (HTMLInputElement) myDoc.all.item
("q", 0);

otxtSearchBox.value = "cargo ship companies";
// google html source for the I'm Feeling Lucky Button:
// <INPUT type=submit value="I'm Feeling Lucky" name=btnI>
//
HTMLInputElement btnSearch = (HTMLInputElement) myDoc.all.item
("btnI", 0);
btnSearch.click();

3. I want to take this page that is now in my browser started by my
program and put the source of the page in a string:
3a. This also works great and the string contains all of the "http://
addresses.com" that I want to grab out of the string:

mshtml.HTMLDocumentClass doc = (mshtml.HTMLDocumentClass)
this.axWebBrowser1.Document;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
string str1 = "";

sb.Append(doc.documentElement.innerHTML);

str1 = sb.ToString();

4. Now, all I want are the .com addresses that are in this string
(str1) to be parsed out into a string array to look like this:
4a. This is where I am stuck now and don't have:

http://www.address1.com
http://www.address2.com
http://www.address3.com
http://www.address4.com
....etc.

any help is appreciated,
Thanks,
Trint
 
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