Question

I am trying to parse this page, but there aren’t much unique info for me to uniquely identify the sections I want.

Basically I am trying to get the most of the data right to the flash video. So:

Alternating Floor Press

Type: Strength
Main Muscle Worked: Chest 
Other Muscles: Abdominals, Shoulders, Triceps 
Equipment: Kettlebells 
Mechanics Type: Compound
Level: Beginner
Sport: No
Force: N/A

And also the image links that shows before and after states.

Right now I use this:

HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument doc = web.Load ( "http://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/detail/view/name/alternating-floor-press" );
IEnumerable<HtmlNode> threadLinks = doc.DocumentNode.Descendants ( "a" );

foreach ( var link in threadLinks )
{
    string str = link.InnerHtml;
    Console.WriteLine ( str );
}

This gives me a lot of stuff I don’t need but also prints what I need. Should I be parsing this printed data by trying to see where my goal data might be inside it?

Answer 1

You can select the id of the nodes you are interested in:

        HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlWeb web = new HtmlWeb();
        HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument doc = web.Load("http://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/detail/view/name/alternating-floor-press");
        IEnumerable<HtmlNode> threadLinks = doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//*[@id=\"exerciseDetails\"]");

        foreach (var link in threadLinks)
        {
            string str = link.InnerText;
            Console.WriteLine(str);
        }
        Console.ReadKey();