Screen Scraping Web Forms Content with System.Net.WebClient(codebetter.com)
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schalkvanwyk(1335) 3 years, 8 months ago
Sometimes you may have the need for accessing html web content from within an application. Why would you need to do this? Well, suppose you need to have a Windows Service periodically render a page with dynamic content and attach it to an email. Your application would need a way to request and save the remote page. Perhaps you need to grab an image from a web camera and save it to a file or display it in a Picture Box within a Winforms application. This technique, often called “Screen Scraping” is simple (like so many other thing) with .NET. In fact, 4GuysFromRolla.com have a good article describing how to do just this: Screen Scrapes in ASP.NET. As they describe, with a few lines of code, you can request an Internet resource and work with it’s stream.
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