Question

I’m looking for some information on interacting with websites with C#. I would like to navigate threw pages and also submit data.

I’m not really sure what way to go about it, Also I’m not sure if C# is even the best choice as far as language.

Any thoughts ? Reference Materials ?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can request a web page using C# with something like this (stolen from here):

    private static string GetWebText(string url)
    {
        HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(url);

        request.UserAgent = "A .NET Web Crawler";

        WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
        Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream();
        StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream);
        string htmlText = reader.ReadToEnd();

        return htmlText;
    }

Next, I’d use the HTML Agility Pack to parse the HTML and do whatever you need.