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  rgoel

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  Real-time information from other websites

  Aug 26, 2003 12:49 PM|LINK

  Hi: Would anyone know how to get real-time information from other websites(x-rates etc.) that i can use in my web-based applications. Thanks in advance for your help. rgoel
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  Morritt

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  Re: Real-time information from other websites

  Sep 09, 2003 08:58 AM|LINK

  you want to scrape the information off the website, heres some code i use for getting the unreal tournament stats off epic

  System.Net.WebClient wc = new System.Net.WebClient();
  	System.IO.Stream s;
  	System.IO.StreamReader sr;
  	string returnval;
  	
  
  	int nIndexStart = 0;
  	int nIndexEnd = 0;
  	int nIndex = 0;
  	s = wc.OpenRead("http://ut2003stats.epicgames.com");
          sr = new System.IO.StreamReader(s);
  	string str = sr.ReadToEnd();
  	if(str.IndexOf("Unreal Tournament 2003 Global Stats Summary") > 0)
  	        {
  	            nIndexStart = str.IndexOf("Unreal Tournament 2003 Global Stats Summary", nIndex);
  	            if(nIndexStart > 0 )
  	            {
  	                nIndex = str.IndexOf("<table ", nIndexStart -200);
  	                if(nIndex > 0 )
  	                {
  	                    nIndexEnd = str.IndexOf("", nIndex+1);
  	                }
  	            }
          }
  	sr.Close();
  	s.Close();
  	str = str.Substring((nIndexStart), (nIndexEnd + 9) - nIndexStart).Replace("playerstats.php?player","stats.aspx?id");
  	Literal1.Text += "<div align='center'>
  
  " + str + "
  
  
  Live stats courtesy of Epic Games</div>";