Regex and extract information from webpage (scraping)

download the html page, then
use something like ReadAllText function to read the html page's source, then
use a InStr function to find "ISIN" - the value your after is just infront of this location in the text string,
and is ended by a closing paretheses - which you may easily find too

hope this makes sense to you, quite some work is yet to be done...good luck

you could use xpath to access the text for the ISIN:

/html/body/div/div[2]/div[4]/div[3]/div/div/span

If you really need a regex for it then here you go:
^.*ISIN (.{12}) \).*$

ErezMor thanks for the contrib. I will give it a bash andsee what I come up with.

smash_pants (what a name!)I really am interested in the regex but can not get it to work. Heres the code I am using (and don't laugh!)

Dim fxk = Regex.Matches(sr.ReadToEnd.ToString, "^.*ISIN (.{12}) \).*$")

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OK - I have been un-able to implement either way suggested here, and though they may be correct, I am un-able to award poits for them. I am thus closing this thread and will try another one.

since the last post from user was "i'll give it a try and get back to you...", i dont think his closing reason is justified.
i happen to have some actual experience in doing just what i suggested the user, so in terms of if it works or not, there's no doubt here.
unless i didnt understand his question, or his closing request reason...

Erez.

OK then erez, I have been unable to use the instr as suggested (I think I have to repeat the obvious), could you post some code to this end?

I've tested this code and it works.
Sorry i haven't been around much... I'm moving house.

string result = null;
string url = "http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=prty&m=L&d=";
WebResponse response = null;
StreamReader reader = null;

try {
    HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
    request.Method = "GET";
    response = request.GetResponse();
    reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream(), Encoding.UTF8);
    result = reader.ReadToEnd();
}
catch (Exception ex) {
    // handle error
    Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
}
finally {
    if (reader != null)
        reader.Close();
    if (response != null)
        response.Close();
}
foreach (Match txt in Regex.Matches(result, @"^.*ISIN (.{12}) \).*$", RegexOptions.Multiline)) {
    Console.WriteLine(txt.Groups[1]);
}

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Thanks a lot and happy moving! If I may ask for a tweak, is it possible to have the regex NOT limiting the result string to 12 characters as you have it, but pich up to the closing bracket?

The ISIN (could?) be longer than 12 characters long and it would thus return an incomplete numer (or I am wrong?)

I have awarded the marks anyhow.

in the regex:
^.*ISIN (.{12}) \).*$

just change the .{12} to what you need.

Capital letters an numbers at least 12 chars long:
[A-Z0-9]{12,}

any character ,any length:
.*