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How can I make an application access a website to get information from it ?
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I want to make an application in C# that is capable of accessing a website and extract the required information from it.
 
I am new so please help anybody...
 
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Posted 4 Jan '13 - 5:11
deepaksharma0390357
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Sandeep Mewara - 4 Jan '13 - 11:27
Access website in what way? Is the other website and it's data accessible to you? Or are you trying to access data from someone elses website?
deepaksharma0390 - 4 Jan '13 - 11:33
yes the data which is available on someone else's website.

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the data which is available on someone else's website.
For using/accessing data from someone else website, you only have an option of screen scrapping. Further, you need to make sure capturing/copying data is allowed by that website or else there might be a legal issue.
 
For page scrapping, have a look at this:
MSDN: WebRequest Class details with sample[^]
 
Other Samples:
CP Vanity[^]
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Posted 4 Jan '13 - 5:42
Sandeep Mewara473K
Yes you can, absolutely. This is the technique of something called Web scraping: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping[^].
 
You need to use the class System.Net.HttpWebRequest, for simplest cases you could you the class System.Net.WebClient. And then you may need something to parse obtained HTML content. For further detail, please see my past answers:
get specific data from web page[^],
How to get the data from another site[^].
 
—SA
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Posted 4 Jan '13 - 5:43
Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov587K
Edited 4 Jan '13 - 5:44
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