Problem with webrequest

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I want fetch reviews from the following site using webrequest.The content is coming but no reviews are showing.What is the problem?

C#

public static string FetchWebpageSourceContent()
        {
            try
             {
         string _path ="http://www.walmart.com/catalog/allReviews.do?product_id=6457603";             
var req = HttpWebRequest.Create(_path);
                var response = req.GetResponse();

                return new System.IO.StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd();
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                return String.Empty;
            }
        }

Posted 21-Jul-12 1:23am

Tirthankar Dutta

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Reishabh_Saxena · Answer 1 · 2012-07-21T01:32:00

The reviews are coming by some client side script so in response string you are getting some un-compiled Jquery-js content.

the below jquery function is fetching the reviews

$BV.ui("rr", "show_reviews", {
productId: " 6457603",
contentContainerDiv: "BVReviewsContainer",
summaryContainerDiv: "BVCustomerRatings",
secondarySummaryContainerDiv: "BVSecondaryCustomerRatings",
mediaGalleryContainerDiv: "BVMediaGalleryContainer",
sort: "helpfulness",
dir: "desc"
});

So you are not able to see the review comments.

Hope this helps !!!

Regards,
Reishabh