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Asked: 2026-06-18T22:59:08+00:00

I’m trying to retrieve data from a webpage but I cannot do it by

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I’m trying to retrieve data from a webpage but I cannot do it by making a web request and parsing the resulting html file because the actual text that I’m trying to retrieve is not in the html file! I imagine that this text is pulled using some script and for that reason it’s not in the html file. For all I know I’m looking at the wrong data, but assuming that my theory is correct, is there a straightforward way to retrieve whatever text is displayed by the browser (Firefox or IE) rather than attempt to fetch the text from the html file?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Assuming you are referring to text that has been generated using Javascript in the browser.

    You can use PhantomJS to achieve this: http://phantomjs.org/

    It is essentially a headless browser that will process Javascript.

    You may need to run this as ane xternal program but Im sure you can do that through C#

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