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You can try if the server supports the range option in the HTTP header. Then you can specify a byte offset. The HTTP request would look something like this:<br />
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GET /somepage HTTP/1.1<br />
Host: www.xyz.org<br />
Range: bytes=123456-<br />
Accept: *.*, */*<br />
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Hope this will work for you.<br />
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Greets<br />
Willem<br />

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You can try if the server supports the range option in the HTTP header. Then you can specify a byte offset. The HTTP request would look something like this:

GET /somepage HTTP/1.1
Host: www.xyz.org
Range: bytes=123456-
Accept: *.*, */*

Hope this will work for you.

Greets
Willem


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Hi wmestrom:<br />
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Do you know how I can use your answer with my existing code? Thanks.<br />

<pre><code id="code-174105">        Dim MyRequest As System.Net.HttpWebRequest
        Dim MyResponse As System.Net.HttpWebResponse
        Dim MyStream As System.IO.StreamReader 
        MyRequest = System.Net.WebRequest.Create(&quot;http://www.abc.com&quot;)
        MyResponse = MyRequest.GetResponse()
        MyStream = New System.IO.StreamReader(MyResponse.GetResponseStream())
</code></pre>
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Hi wmestrom:

Do you know how I can use your answer with my existing code? Thanks.


        Dim MyRequest As System.Net.HttpWebRequest
        Dim MyResponse As System.Net.HttpWebResponse
        Dim MyStream As System.IO.StreamReader 
        MyRequest = System.Net.WebRequest.Create("http://www.abc.com")
        MyResponse = MyRequest.GetResponse()
        MyStream = New System.IO.StreamReader(MyResponse.GetResponseStream())


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Hi Experts,<br />
<br />
I am reading into my application many pages of HTML so that I can retrieve (scrape) data from them. My problem is that the data I require lies a thousand lines of HTML into the page. Having to read through these unwanted lines of code each time a data scrape is made is slowing things down. Is it possible to make an HTML page request of the server starting at line 1000 for example?
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Hi Experts,

I am reading into my application many pages of HTML so that I can retrieve (scrape) data from them. My problem is that the data I require lies a thousand lines of HTML into the page. Having to read through these unwanted lines of code each time a data scrape is made is slowing things down. Is it possible to make an HTML page request of the server starting at line 1000 for example?

Reading HTML using System.IO.StreamReader

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