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dduplessis
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Posted - 2011-08-18 : 13:56:43
Hi,

Is it possible to connect to a url and load the web-page source from that url, from within T-SQL?

Thanks.

visakh16
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Posted - 2011-08-18 : 13:59:33
nope. but its possible to do it from sql report if thats what you want. if not, tell what you're trying to exactly achieve

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dduplessis
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Posted - 2011-08-18 : 14:05:00
I am trying to mine info from a web-page by downloading it, parsing the page source, and filling a table with the mined data.
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visakh16
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Posted - 2011-08-18 : 14:10:02
is the page source too complicated? or else it would be worth getting code behind in xml format using some front end language and then passing xml to sql which can parse it and get required info.

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dduplessis
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Posted - 2011-08-18 : 14:27:15
Nope... page source is not complicated. I just really want to find out if it is possible to connect to the URL, and actually get the page source. Kinda like what viewing the page source with your browser would give you.
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dduplessis
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Posted - 2011-08-18 : 14:39:14
basically, I need the C++ equivalent of URLDownloadToFile in TSQL
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yosiasz
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Posted - 2011-08-19 : 01:12:24
or clr written in C# compilte into sproc or use ssis + script Task using c# to do that

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