How do I get the second href link in the <a> tag using vb.net

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<div id="dl_link" style="display: block;">
<a href="/get?video_id=KMU0tzLwhbE&h=-1&r=-1.1" style="display:none">Download</a>
<a href="/get?ab=128&video_id=KMU0tzLwhbE&h=f25a5baaa46941a22d89c09ee679a305&r=1405000885751.1521813114">Download</a>

So I want to retrieve the second href link in the HTML code ("/get?ab=128&video_id=KMU0tzLwhbE&h=f25a5baaa46941a22d89c09ee679a305&r=1405000885751.1521813114")

Currently what I have is this

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Dim link_label As HtmlElement = WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("dl_link")

Dim linka As HtmlElement = link_label.GetElementsByTagName("A")(0)    
Dim link As String = linka.GetAttribute("HREF")

but that only gets the first href link which is not what I want, so how do I get the second one?

Posted 10-Jul-14 4:06am

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Member 10854765 · Answer 1 · 2014-07-10T08:28:00

Solution 1

This is not optimal, but you could try:

Dim linka As HtmlElement = link_label.GetElementsByTagName("A")(1)

Posted 10-Jul-14 8:28am

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Member 10937895 · Answer 2 · 2014-07-11T03:25:00

Solution 2

What would I have to do if the code keeps changing places on different pages? How would I do it then? Changing the 0 to a 1 only works if that line of text stays in the same place each time. :(

Posted 11-Jul-14 3:25am

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CHill60 11-Jul-14 9:39am

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