Please: How to copy text from webpage?

**Bruin 1953** · February 9th, 2012, 02:52 AM

Pls show me How to copy text from any given webpage to thee ClipBoard.
I now open the page manually and SelectAll - Copy data from File menu, but would like my program to do the copyin
Saving text, or the webpage itself, to a text file would also do.

My form already include WebBrowser1 control, but I have little idea how to use it!

**dglienna** · February 9th, 2012, 10:40 AM

If you search this forum, for webbrowser, I'm sure you can get info quicker than all of us typing our posts, AGAIN. Another keyword is DOM.

Specify which version of the OS and browser, though. They're different

**tgacomp** · February 9th, 2012, 08:31 PM

This will get you the text of the web site cant remember how to paste into clipboard

strURL = "http://www.forexfactory.com"
Set objXMLHTTP = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")
objXMLHTTP.Open "GET", strURL, False
objXMLHTTP.Send ""
strHTML = objXMLHTTP.ResponseText ' strHTML will contain the text of website strURL

**Bruin 1953** · February 10th, 2012, 05:19 PM

Originally Posted by tgacomp

This will get you the text of the web site cant remember how to paste into clipboard

strURL = "http://www.forexfactory.com"
Set objXMLHTTP = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")
objXMLHTTP.Open "GET", strURL, False
objXMLHTTP.Send ""
strHTML = objXMLHTTP.ResponseText ' strHTML will contain the text of website strURL

Great! Thanks

**dglienna** · February 10th, 2012, 08:31 PM

Wouldn't count on that last post... or two...

**Bruin 1953** · February 17th, 2012, 02:45 PM

Originally Posted by dglienna

Wouldn't count on that last post... or two...

You are probably right!
I thought I tried it and it worked, but I am finding out that this code return HTML in the page, not the textual data itself.
So, my request is on!

**DataMiser** · February 17th, 2012, 02:52 PM

You could always use the send keys method

ctrl a to select all
ctrl c to copy to clipboard

**Wario** · March 16th, 2012, 01:53 PM

Clipboard.SetText(myvar)

This should place the text from myvar to the clipboard.

Check this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tbfb3z56.aspx

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