Question

I want to extract the download url from streamcloud in my C#-Program.
Therefore I have to wait 10 seconds, click on a button and click on the player.
Then I can extract the download url from the page-source.

My problem:

I have 2 ways to do this:

1. Automatic: I have to simulate a click on the button after 10 seconds. But my HtmlElement is always null.

2. Manually: I created a form with a WebBrowser-control. But this control didn’t show for example the button. I think the WebBrowser-control is blocking all jscript-content. Is there a way, that the WebBrowser shows all content?

Or is there a other way to get the download-url?

Answer 1

If you want to do this on a machine with browser installed (IE or Firefox), you could use any framework for automated testing. WatiN is a good one.

Something like this:

using (var browser = new IE("http://www.streamcloud.com/YOUR_VIDEO_URL"))
{
    browser.Button(Find.ByName("Play")).Click();
    // wait for 10 seconds, or better use some WatiN functionality like WaitUntilExists
    System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(10000);
    // extract URL
    var element = browser.Element(Find.ById("URL_CONTAINER_ID"));
    string videoUrl = element.Text;
}