I Want to pull information off of html pages.

For instance, I have a client, and I am doing seo for this client. I have a
database that I enter web page urls that I am working on. I want to have a
web page that will retrieve certain information from their pages and display on
my page.

So what will need to happen for instance: I have 5 or 6 pages for a web site
that I am working on and the url for these pages are in my database.

I want my script to pull the Title tags, (or possibly the h1, h2 tags, etc.,) off of
these pages that are in my database and list them on a web page for me.

I can write the select statement to pull the info (the web url) from my database,
but how do I get asp to go pull the title tag off of these pages and display them
to me?

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Chip

From my scraper functions
This will extract the text from between the start and end tags specified in the strTag variable.

function GetTagText(strIn,strTag)
dim StartPos
dim EndPos
strIn = replace(strIn,vbCrLf,"")
strIn = replace(strIn,"'",chr(34))
StartPos = instr(strIn,"<" & strTag & ">") + (len(strTag) + 2)
EndPos = instr(StartPos,strIn,"</" & strTag & ">")
GetTagText = trim(mid(strIn,StartPos,EndPos - StartPos))
end function

Call is

response.write GetTagText(strIn,"title")

One day I'll code up a RegExp version.

Something like this might be retrofitted if you want to use Regular Expressions (although I haven't done it myself):

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/042501-1.shtml

RegExp ROCKS!

Thanks Chris and Adam,

I'm working with these. A little over my head right now, so I've got some more to learn. Thanks.. -Chip