visual basic 2008 extracting parsing keyword tags, title tags, td class, meta tags etc

Question

Hi Friends,

I had to rewrite this post because it didn't submit for whatever reason (very frustrating!). LOL

Anyway, I'm trying to analyze web pages for seo. I'm trying to create my own personal tool to extract all the keywords and tags from web pages (a little clearer).

I already know how to extract or parse links and text from web pages. The issue is that I tried to implement title tags, body tags or keyword tags in general via using the following code:

Dim theElementCollection As HtmlElementCollection = WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementsByTagName("a")
        For Each curElement As HtmlElement In theElementCollection
            If curElement.GetAttribute("href").Contains("http://twitter.com/") Then
                TextBox2.Text += curElement.GetAttribute("innerText") & vbCrLf
            End If
        Next

The above code extracts the innertext of any given href link, but I have tried a variety of ways to implement the extraction of keywords from web pages. It won't do a thing!


So I would like to know if someone could give an example to extract title tags, keyword tags, metatags or anything would be appreciated.

For example:

Try to extract all the keywords from the title, body etc. for this page: http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/5006461-ultimate-zaytoven-kit and send it to separate textboxes (title keywords in textbox1, meta tags in textbox2 etc.).

This is what I'm trying to do based on the code I gave above, but please try to give an example.


Thanks!

Answer 1

Use regular expression. You can post your question in regular Exp. forum http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/regexp/threads

kaymaf

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If that what you want, take it. If not, ignored it and no complain