Re: Download & Parse Web Page How-To Recommendations

From: Walter Anderson (w.a.l.t.e.r-at-w.a.l.t.e.r.a.n.d.e.r.s.o.n.com)
Date: 11/28/04 

Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 09:53:50 -0000

Yes. Temperature is little use on a motorcycle. What I was thinking was
that;

1. You get the source to how to get the temperature info. in the first
place.
2. You get the HTML parsing component (like Clever Internet Suite).
3. You get Mike's support to extend the existing component to get rain,
barometric pressure etc.

WA

"Shane Stump" <ShaneStumpNoSpam@StumpWare.com> wrote in message
news:41a95769@newsgroups.borland.com...
>I want a little more than just the current temperature (though I am
>starting to think the view I wanted to add to Drivers Log isn't of much use
>without GPS integration (which I am NOT going to attempt)).
>
> Regards,
>
> Shane
>
> "Walter Anderson" <w.a.l.t.e.r-at-w.a.l.t.e.r.a.n.d.e.r.s.o.n.com> wrote
> in message news:41a929e2@newsgroups.borland.com...
>> Did you have a look at the Scalabium SMInternet suite? As of v1.50 (I'm
>> using v1.40) It contains the TSMWeatherInfo component mentioned by Mike S
>> in the previous post. If I read the website correctly, you feed it a zip
>> code and it gives the temperature info from weather.com. For $35
>> including source you also get TSMInfoExtractor which will let you parse
>> the HTML. You also get a couple of routines for automatic updates, a news
>> 'pusher' and a whizzy component that talks to UPS so your users can plan
>> their route, send themselves a postcard and see where the postcard is
>> within the UPS delivery system. ;-))
>>
>> I think some of that's exactly what you want - or did I miss something?
>>
>> WA
>>
>> "Shane Stump" <ShaneStumpNoSpam@StumpWare.com> wrote in message
>> news:41a91485@newsgroups.borland.com...
>>> Mike S has given me the idea of allowing the user to type in city,state
>>> and then I would go out to the web and do the following:
>>>
>>> 1) Get Zip Code
>>> 2 If # 1 successful, pass off to weather.com and get forecast.
>>>
>>> My question is:
>>>
>>> What toolkit should I use to simply download & parse a web page? After
>>> doing a quick google search, I found the Clever Internet Suite.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any experience with it or do they have another
>>> recommendation? The component set must be C Builder compatible.
>>>
>>> Thanks for all your help.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>> Shane
>>> www.StumpWare.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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