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user1951083
user1951083

Reputation: 261

Html agility pack in Windows 8 App

I'm trying to create a football Windows 8 Application in c#. In my hub page I would like to show the fixtures of the Barclays Premier League. Now I'm wondering if I can get the data from this website : http://espnfc.com/fixtures/_/league/eng.1/english-premier-league?cc=5739

Is this possible with the Html Agility pack? Or does anyone know some great RSS feeds? Feel free to share your thoughts about other options!

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 857

Answers (1)

Rafał Saltarski
Rafał Saltarski

Reputation: 707

Please keep in mind you would a WinRT compiled version of the HTML Agility Pack for it to work as a Windows Store application library.

Parsing web-pages for that kind of data is definitely possible, I found it easy using Xpath. There's a lot of extensions for browsers that will help you construct queries, for example iXpath Helper for Chrome.

Here's a sample of the code I developed to get dates of matches: need to construct to get dates of matches from a fixtures website:

var url = "http://www.livefootball.com/football/england/premier-league/results/all/";
var webGet = new HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlWeb();
var document = webGet.Load(url);
var dates = document.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//dl[@class='mElHeaderDet']");
foreach (var node in dates)
        {
            listOfDates.Add(node.InnerText);
        }

Upvotes: 1

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