Download a web page
This example shows how to download and store the content of a web page in a string.
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/// <summary>
/// Returns the content of a given web adress as string.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="Url">URL of the webpage</param>
/// <returns>Website content</returns>
public string DownloadWebPage(string Url)
{
// Open a connection
HttpWebRequest WebRequestObject = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(Url);
// You can also specify additional header values like
// the user agent or the referer:
WebRequestObject.UserAgent = ".NET Framework/2.0";
WebRequestObject.Referer = "http://www.example.com/";
// Request response:
WebResponse Response = WebRequestObject.GetResponse();
// Open data stream:
Stream WebStream = Response.GetResponseStream();
// Create reader object:
StreamReader Reader = new StreamReader(WebStream);
// Read the entire stream content:
string PageContent = Reader.ReadToEnd();
// Cleanup
Reader.Close();
WebStream.Close();
Response.Close();
return PageContent;
}
//Example:
string PageContent = DownloadWebPage("http://www.jonasjohn.de/");
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Language: C# | User: ShareMySnippets | Created: Oct 16, 2013