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c#asp.netscreen-scraping
André
André

Reputation: 25584

C#, how to get the content of a webpage?

I'm new to c#. I need to do a script to get the HTML content of a webpage. Where I can get examples on how to do this? I have searched here but I can't find.

PS: Sorry for my dab english.

Best Regards,

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1597

Answers (1)

Tomas Petricek
Tomas Petricek

Reputation: 243116

Look at the WebClient class. The DownloadString method returns a content of a page as a string:

var wc = new WebClient();
var html = wc.DownloadString("http://stackoverflow.com");

If you also want to parse the downloaded HTML, then you can take a look at HTML Agility Pack. It allows you to parse the HTML into a tree-like structure (similar to XmlDocument) and you can use XPath to find elements in the document etc. It is much better approach then using regular expressions or parsing the content yourself.

Upvotes: 6

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