We hate to guess so please give a detailed example of what you are planning to program.

You can do data mining in QB by reading the html files from the temporary Internet folder and then parse out the text by removing the tags.

You can open a site with SHELL using the START command and the URL to open the site. SHELL "cmd /c START www.mysite.com"

You can use 3rd-party software like DSOCK and WGet to connect to the internet, if needed.

So, a good complete explaination is neededd because there is no QB command to connect to the net, read text from a web-page, and open it in QB. That takes other programs like the ones I mentioned above or QB and about 200-300 lines of code to make it possible.

Pete