Question

I’m trying to scrape some information from a website but can’t find a solution that works for me. Every code I read on the Internet generates at least one error for me.

Even the example code at their homepage generates errors for me.

My code:

         HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument();
         doc.Load("https://www.flashback.org/u479804");
         foreach(HtmlNode link in doc.DocumentElement.SelectNodes("//a[@href"])
         {
            HtmlAttribute att = link["href"];
            att.Value = FixLink(att);
         }
         doc.Save("file.htm");

Generates the following error:

‘HtmlDocument’ is an ambiguous reference between ‘System.Windows.Forms.HtmlDocument’ and ‘HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument’ C:*\Form1.cs

Edit: My entire code is located here: http://beta.yapaste.com/55

All help is very appreciated!

Answer 1

Use HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument:

HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument();

The compiler is getting confused because two of the namespaces you have imported with using contain classes called HtmlDocument – the HTML Agility Pack namespace, and the Windows Forms namespace. You can get around this by specifying which class you want to use explicitly.