I’m struggling to write a Windows Service that accesses a website, logs in using stored credentials, and downloads the HTML to parse it. What do you think is the best way to go about this?
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I’m struggling to write a Windows Service that accesses a website, logs in using stored credentials, and downloads the HTML to parse it. What do you think is the best way to go about this?
If you really have to do that (The webserver doesn’t provide a webservice), use the HttpWebRequest (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httpwebrequest.aspx) and parse the HTML either with Regex or some html parsing lib.
Or WebClient, of course.