Question

I’ll try to explain what exactly I mean. I’m working on a program and I’m trying to download a bunch of images automatically from this site.

Namely, I want to download the big square icons from the page you get when you click on a hero name there, for example on the Darius page the image in the top left with the name DariusSquare.png and save that into a folder.

Is this possible or am I asking too much from C#?

Thank you very much!

Answer 1

In general, everything is possible given enough time and money. In your case, you need very little of former and none of latter 🙂

What you need to do can be described in following high-level steps:

• Get all <a> tags within the table with heroes.
• Use WebClient class to navigate to URL these <a> tags point to (i.e. to value of href attributes) and download the HTML
• You will need to find some wrapper element that is present on each page with hero and that contains his image. Then, you should be able to get to the image src attribute and download it. Alternatively, perhaps each image has an common ID you can use?

I don’t think anyone will provide you with an exact code that will perform these steps for you. Instead, you need to do some research of your own.