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c#web-scrapinghtml-agility-pack
AchillesDH
AchillesDH

Reputation: 5

Scrape InnerText from body of website C#

I'm trying to gather the data from this website: http://services.runescape.com/m=hiscore_oldschool/index_lite.ws?player=f2pshrympy

using HtmlAgilityPack;
using System;

var webGet = new HtmlWeb();
var document = webGet.Load("http://services.runescape.com/m=hiscore_oldschool/index_lite.ws?player=f2pshrympy");
var bodyText = document.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("/html/body/text()");
Console.WriteLine(bodyText);
Console.ReadLine();

When the program is run nothing is printed to the console and there are no errors.

screenshot of the console

I'm guessing that nothing is being found with the XPath "/html/body/text()", any ideas how I can go around fixing this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 140

Answers (1)

Eser
Eser

Reputation: 12546

Your page is pure text. So you don't need any tool like HtmlAgilityPack to parse it. Just download it and use it.

using (var wc = new WebClient())
{
    var bodyText = wc.DownloadString("http://services.runescape.com/m=hiscore_oldschool/index_lite.ws?player=f2pshrympy");

}

Upvotes: 1

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