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c#web-scraping
user1017524
user1017524

Reputation: 241

How to scrape text from a page in a HTTPWebRequest?

how would one scrape certain text from a website using a HTTPWebRequest?

I have this code but it only works with HREF, how can I make it to work with text?

Heres the code to scrape I have:

// setup variables for scraping
int startPos = 0, endPos = 0, length = 0;
string tempString = "";

// do the scraping
startPos = html.IndexOf("");
endPos = html.IndexOf(">", startPos);
length = endPos - startPos;
tempString = html.Substring(startPos, length);

For example if a page had this code how can I make it only scrape the1ddiariesareback?: 

<s class="hash">#</s><b>the1ddiariesareback</b></span></a>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 552

Answers (1)

Oded
Oded

Reputation: 499302

I suggest using the HTML Agility Pack to download and parse the HTML for you.

You can query the object model using XPath or LINQ to XML syntax.

Upvotes: 4

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