Download website html code with VB6

In ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, Demeter is the goddess of the harvest. This code sample demonstrates how to harvest the headers and html code of a web site via VB6.

The code presented here shows how to download the header information and html code from a web site, and save that data to text file. In this code, the following items are demonstrates:

• Controls:
  • Microsoft Internet Transfer Control 6.0 for retrieving web site data
  • Microsoft Common Dialog Control 6.0 for use of system save dialog
• API:
  • ShellExecute API to open the default browser when a link is clicked
• General:
  • Responding to events with actions
  • string concatenation
  • writing to a text file

While this bit of code is meant to be a demonstration for beginners, it can also be expanded on, potentially becoming a full-on web crawler.

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Posted: 2017-11-18
By: vb6boy
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Visual Basic 6

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