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Question

Programming block (ouch)

Mar 17, 2015 8:46AM PDT

so my problem is this, i want to make a small separate program that i can use to search for keywords on specific websites, I'm using VB which I'm not sure is the right way to go about this

I'm having a heck of a time trying to start, all i need the program to do is let me type in a website like "www.craigslist.com" and then in another function be able to put keywords like "car parts" and have it list out every post with car parts in them


can anyone nudge me in the right direction, i know there are programs out their but i was hoping to practice a little but of programming and make something i would find useful to me


Thank you all for any help you can give me

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So you want a web crawler?
Mar 17, 2015 8:51AM PDT
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on the right track but...
Mar 17, 2015 10:18AM PDT

i need it to be more like a search function, where i can type in a series of keywords and have it display results leading me to those pages like if i search for webdesign then it will display those pages for me...the spider kind of helps but i would have to tinker with it a lot and im honestly not even sure how well it will handle this project,

thanks for the help though

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Remember I take it you write code.
Mar 17, 2015 10:45AM PDT

Those crawlers wouldn't take much for a beginning programmer to add which site to crawl.

Your reply sounds like you didn't mean that you were going to write any code but were looking for a finished app?
Bob