[Windows 8.1 - Webview]How do I donwload a complete webpage with C#?

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Hi everybody,

I need to donwload an entire webpage using a Webview. I checked out the CapturePreviewToStreamAsync() method, but it catch only a preview of the part of the webpage I'm currently seeing (without scrolling down).

What I'm looking for is to download the entire webpage (complete of css, images and so on). I ahve a lot of ideas how to do it, but I'm missing the most important part: how to download the code behind for a webpage?

Thanks a lot!!

Jymmy097

EDIT:
I found what I was looking for: the HttpClient class.
Now, let's suppose I'm downloading the webpage and the related files and the user suspend the application... what will happen at that time??

Thanks!

Posted 21-Feb-14 8:22am

LLLLGGGG

Updated 21-Feb-14 8:58am

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ZurdoDev 21-Feb-14 14:38pm

You can't get the codebehind for the web page. If you could, that would be a huge security risk.

LLLLGGGG 21-Feb-14 14:56pm

I mean the HTML code the webpage generates... the one whoever can retrieve with its browser.

ZurdoDev 21-Feb-14 14:58pm

The HttpClient is one way of doing it. There are lots of articles here on how to download a web page using C#.

LLLLGGGG 21-Feb-14 14:59pm

And if the user suspends the application while I'm downloading the page?

ZurdoDev 21-Feb-14 15:05pm

If they kill your app while it is downloading then I suppose it would kill that too. Perhaps you can explain better what it is your are trying to accomplish. Perhaps there is an alternative.

LLLLGGGG 21-Feb-14 15:08pm

I'm trying to save a webpage offline complete of images, css files (in order to display it better), and so on... If the user switches from my app to another one, will the process be suspended too?

ZurdoDev 21-Feb-14 15:09pm

Most browsers have that option built in. Is there some way to leverage that?

LLLLGGGG 21-Feb-14 15:16pm

I'd like to do this in one of my app... I don't think that I can use the IE browser in a Windows 8 app.

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-21T12:13:00

Solution 1

Basically, this is a problem of Web scraping: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping[^].
One way, the most flexible one, is using the class HttpWebRequest. Please see my past answers:
get specific data from web page[^],
How to get the data from another site[^].

—SA

Posted 21-Feb-14 12:13pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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