Question

I want to create a web service in ASP.NET that fetches data from a website every hour or so (the storing part I got it covered). In this example, metacritic.com, how can I get the Users score of a movie at any given time interval?

What I know is, I would have to get the source of the website and then find the html element that contains the data I want (by name in the best of the cases) but I don’t know how to do it.

Thanks in advance for any help!

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Answer 1

For the HTTP request side of things, WebClient is probably the easiest.

For a simple, blocking HTTP request, do this:

string page = (new WebClient()).DownloadString("http://foo.bar/page");