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[scheda]

Is there a way to access web pages without WebBrowser?

Say for instance I wanted to access a website, do a search, and pull the results into my application.

Is there another component, or something, I could use to gain access to that site?

Thanks for your help.

[semprance]

You could read the webpage into a string and then parse it with RegEx. You'd be better doing this with some sort of XML or json feed if the site you want to read has one.

[Vswe]

you can use:

Dim mywebclient as new Net.Webclient
Dim content as String = mywebclient.downloadstring("the url")

[semprance]

Vswe said:

you can use:

Dim mywebclient as new Net.Webclient
Dim content as String = mywebclient.downloadstring("the url")

Csharpification:

WebClient client = new WebClient();
string foo = client.DownloadString("http://www.website.com/file.txt");

Also, try DownloadStringAsync if you're multithreading (best when downloading large files).

Edited by semprance, 07 April 2010 - 02:03 PM.
Extra CODE tag snuck in...

[Vswe]

oops, misread the section it was posted in, thought it was VB. But yeah that is the C# version.