read data from webpage

[munna_dude]

hi all
how to read data( means which is opening in the page ) of the web page using "c".

please help me

thank you in advance

[sixstringartist]

You're going to have to give me more than that to go on. Do you know how to program in C? If so, are you familiar with communicating with a network in C?

If you answered no to either of those questions, I fear you are in over your head until you expand your education in C.

[munna_dude]

yes i tried this but not getting total page in one array
Code:
ARRAY=( $(lynx -dump Google) )
echo $ARRAY
but it is printing only this text
Quote:
[1]iGoogle
what i have to do to store the total data in to the string.

please help me

thank you in advance

[wje_lf]

munna_dude, it took me a while to figure out what you meant by this question. Then it occurred to me that this question might be related to the one you posed in this thread.

So combining the two questions, you can write a bash script to restrict the web page output to the data that is after a line containing "Underlying Value" but before a line containing "Top" thus:

lynx -dump "http://whatever.com/pagename.html" | sed -e '1,/Underlying Value/d' | sed -e '/Top/,$d'

But you say you want to do this in C. How much of this do you want to do in C?

The quickest and dirtiest way is to combine the above command into a system() function call.

The slowest, most painful way is to do all the network programming and string recognition yourself.

Where would you like to go from here?

[munna_dude]

The quickest and dirtiest way is to combine the above command into a system() function call.

The slowest, most painful way is to do all the network programming and string recognition yourself.

Where would you like to go from here?

is it possible to write the program in c..

[Lakshmipathi]

is it possible to write the program in c..

Yes.You can call system() in C program with appropriate command.
Ex:

main(){
system("ls -l");
}

[sixstringartist]

Anything is possible in C. :P except maybe fault tolerence.