>>What the best way to control webbrowser to solve this task? WWC? WebBrowser control? reference to Internet Explorer?
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>UrlDownloadtoFile and vfp string functions if parsing manually ist better than going through the dom parsed tree - this can be less code, but is not often the case.
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>For DOM Parsing via MSHTML:
>If to run on your own machine WebBrowser in your very own form (less chances of listening to the wrong instance, it does not have to be pretty, easier to find the code years later <g>.
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>If to run on clients machine, ask him if he minds a vfp form with webbrowser<g>.

Speaking of which... did anyone try to do this with webbrowser control invisible? Scouring a webpage behind the scenes... almost like a poor man's webservice.

I've built a couple of forms which did this (get values from webpages fields, sometimes set and posted some), but each time the user had to see the page, never needed to do it invisibly. Just curious - would that work?