How I can get web page's content and save it into the string variable

c# asp.net screen-scraping
kamiar3001 picture kamiar3001 · Dec 22, 2010 · Viewed 168.4k times · Source

How I can get the content of the web page using ASP.NET? I need to write a program to get the HTML of a webpage and store it into a string variable.

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dhinesh picture dhinesh · Dec 22, 2010

You can use the WebClient

WebClient client = new WebClient();
string downloadString = client.DownloadString("http://www.gooogle.com");

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