Periodic collection of data from a webpage HOWTO?

[Itachi]

Hi,

I am Labview newbie.

Can anyone direct me how i can write a program in labview to access a webpage periodically to collect certain text on its webpage and write this data into a file? Thanks in advance!

[Khalid]

Hi,

The following thread show you how to use DataSocket Read VI to read a HTML page and then to parse out the required raw text. As for the writing to file part, you can check out the File IO examples in LabVIEW.

http://lavag.org/top...ndpost__p__4760

Hope this helps,

-Khalid