Vb6 Advanced maby

I want to take infomation off a website and show it up on the form. (my program) exp: Taking your IP of a site like www.ipchicken.com. Please tell me step by step way I can do this (doesn't have to be my example)

 

this one is a bit more advanced and I've only done it once a long time ago. It involves screen scraping using the MSXML object. Research screen scraping.

 

If you're just looking to display the ip info for that computer back to the user there are better ways. Like just use "shell ipconfig" and then scrape that. Although there is most likely an even better way or possibly a built in function which can return the IP.

 

Though I am not the author of this code I am going to pass it along.

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Text1.Text = IPaddr
End Sub

Private Function IPaddr()
Dim IP As String, Html As String
Html = Inet1.OpenURL("http://checkip.dyndns.org/", icString)
IP = Mid(Html, InStr(1, Html, "Address:", vbTextCompare) + 8)
IP = Trim(Left(IP, InStr(1, IP, Chr(10), vbTextCompare) - 16))
IPaddr = " " & IP
End Function

All you need is a form with a text box, a command button and the INET control

if you can understand this code then you can direct the INET to go to ANY web site and pull ANY info you want out by parsing the text and putting it on your form.

good luck