Is there any way of parsing a web (for example, a web of match results to get its results) on vb.net using a browser other than IE?
So far I have used the library "Interop.SHDocVw" and the program worked, but when I ran the program a few days ago I did not get any values. I checked that seeing the page with IE did not show me the values but with chrome if I showed them to me.
Does anyone think of a solution?
If you have changed the way you render the data you will have to see how to adapt, most likely they are using javascript with a library that does not support IE (this suspicion is because you say it looks in chrome and not in IE )
Specific to VB I do not know a replacement of the "SHDocVw" which is the Trident engine of IE, as for a replacement of the same style for EDGE would not be a simple task as does not support COM / Activex
In principle you can analyze the document that gives you the "SHDocVw" and see if the data that was previously in html are loaded or generated dynamically and try to recover that resource (eg if there is a load resultados.js somewhere )
Another option is to try to integrate the chrome chromium engine into your app. A chromium .net wrapper is for example CefSharp , (the windows app facebook gameroom uses it as an embedded browser)
There are some hints on how to do it in link
Within the .net ecosystem there are also interesting projects like link that use headless chrome.
But there you would already be entering another more complex terrain (headless chrome runs in another process and with puppeteer you control it)
And last but not least: check the web that you are accessing if you have an api to retrieve those results. If it is for personal use and does not conflict with your business model, they can surely guide you better.