Parsing Web Pages for Specific Information
Web Queries are an excellent way of retrieving tables of information from web pages, but they are a little
cumbersome if you are only interested in one or two items of information and are extremely susceptible
to minor changes in the web page layout (such as adding an extra tag at the top of the page).
Another way is to read the page using a hidden instance of Internet Explorer, search within the page for
the required information (using either the HTML or plain text representations), and then return the
result. The following code requires a reference to the Microsoft Internet Controls object library:.