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Asked: 2026-06-08T05:58:52+00:00

Before you stop reading and suggest HTML Agility (based on the title), I am

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Before you stop reading and suggest HTML Agility (based on the title), I am already using this tool. The problem is this: I have have a webpage that lists a whole bunch of case numbers and has links to the individual case number page. My app already downloads this info and displays it in a datagridview. However in my app I also need information from the individual case number pages (the links).

The problem is I already know it’s going to take forever to acquire using HTML agility. To get the case page, it takes about 2 minutes. Code wise I’m feeding HTML agility the HTML code, adding the cell values to an array and parsing out the array indexes I to display in my grid. This is a very large array parse for the number of components on the page.

Any ideas to acquire the main page and specific cells from the linked pages?

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  1. Editorial Team

    An example showing how you can use XPath in HmtlAgility

    HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument(); doc.LoadHtml(yourHtml);

    Example 1 : //The below example will get all div’s with class as container foreach (HtmlNode node in
    doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes(“//div[@class=’container’]”)) {
    Console.Writeline(node.InnerText); }

    Example 2 : //The below example will get first div with class as container HtmlNode node in
    doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes(“//div[@class=’container’][1]”))

    Console.Writeline(node.InnerText);

    You can use Xpath Queries to get the element(s) you want

    for XPath syntax and more please use the link http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_syntax.asp

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