Performing a some kind of Web Request and getting result

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Hello.

Here is the site that I want to interact Genderchecker

I want to set a value to a specific input element in a web site.
Perform a click on an element that is image.
Get the result span text into string variable

Can you give me advice what should I use ?

Posted 17-Sep-14 1:20am

Zhivko Kabaivanov

Updated 17-Sep-14 2:31am

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Thanks7872 17-Sep-14 7:36am

Beware of posting links this way. That will be considered abuse and won't be tolerated. You have been given enough space to explain whatever you want.

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 17-Sep-14 8:11am

You have a large (too large in fact) code dump, but no real explanation of the problem...Please improve...

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-17T04:17:00

Don't try to do any client activity except sending HTTP request and getting HTTP response. The idea is: you should sent the same requests that the browser would do, not doing all the client-site activity. You can use the class System.Net.HttpWebRequest:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httpwebrequest%28v=vs.110%29.aspx[^].

How to know what exactly to send? There can be different approaches. In simple cases, you can learn what the Web page does by looking at its code using, say, browser's "View Page Source" feature (or something like that, depending on your browser). You may need to download related parts of the client-side code, such as scripts.

I have a different advice. You can get any suitable HTTP spying software. In particular, there is a number of products implemented as plug-in modules to different browsers. Use one. I, for example, use HttpFox, a plug-in to Mozilla browser. Activate HTTP trace and do all manipulations in your browser as the user would do. By captured HTTP requests and responses, you can figure out how to scrape the data you need. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping[^].

See also my past answers:
http://www.codeproject.com/Answers/285975/get-specific-data-from-web-page#answer2[^],
How to get the data from another site[^].

—SA