Monitoring changes in a website

[KurogamineNox]

...and that's what I meant by weird I don't like doing it this way, it's unreliable.

Unreliabe, yes. Though it makes things much easier after I am able to do that, or just some way to not be able to surf the website and still get the html source code. So far, ive had little to no luck. Closely getting closer but still little by little.

Edit: It takes more cpu usage to acually load the website while if you could just get the html source of the website without acually loading it, then it would take less cpu usage and system memory and what not. Downloading the source would be alot faster than having to acually load the webpage. I assume this is more advanced but I have no other way to learn this without the help of this community. So yeah, ive got to keep going through trial and error till the issue is resolved.

Edit: I already understood the difficulty after posting the topics, but I am determined to at least get it to work.

Edited October 16, 2010 by KurogamineNox

[somdcomputerguy]

(I need my program to be able to get the information without having to acually surf the page so the page doesnt have to load. He says I can get the Html Source coding with tcp and still use the same functions.)

_INetGetSource can be used to to get the page source code w/o having to 'surf' to the actual page.

[KurogamineNox]

_INetGetSource can be used to to get the page source code w/o having to 'surf' to the actual page.

Still not able to get the array, it must not be getting the login information from internet explorer. It must be on a different stream of connection I am guessing. It is however getting the source.

Edited October 16, 2010 by KurogamineNox

[somdcomputerguy]

Does this website have a 'remember me' checkbox or something similar next to the user and passw fields? I use inetgetsource to monitor a page that only has the text I have to monitor if I'm logged in. To do this, I open IE, login, with that checkbox checked, and then close IE, without logging out. Then inetgetsource can do what I need it to do.

[Kalin]

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hey, I am making a new program that can monitor a status of a changing variable in a website.

I would like to monitor changes in my ranking on this website

http://rf.ogplanet.com/community/rankings.html

You would probably have to be logged in to acually see your ranking but ill post a picture here.

Id have the program check every hour for changes. If someone could give me an example using any website would be fine or steer me in the right direction to learn this if possible would be nice as well.

You do know this is a flash game right?

[Delta]

_INetGetSource can be used to to get the page source code w/o having to 'surf' to the actual page.

I'm the one who told him to use TCP. He needs to send http request headers that contain his login cookies. None of the INet functions can do that. I've been working on my own project which needs to do the same thing. I'll be giving him my functions when I'm done if he still needs them.

You do know this is a flash game right?

You do know hes not automating the game right? All he want's his to get his stats off the page.

[KurogamineNox]

You do know this is a flash game right?

The website could be flash, the acual game itself is a pc game afterall. It is a fun game acually. I have it in window mode and Thought I could be able to monitor my ranking changes while in game without having to surf the acual page(to cause less lag)