html - How do I find the text within a div in the source of a web page using C#

Question

How can I get the HTML code from a website, save it, and find some text by using a LINQ expression?

I'm using the following code to get the source of a web page:

public static String code(string Url)
{
    HttpWebRequest myRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(Url);
    myRequest.Method = "GET";
    WebResponse myResponse = myRequest.GetResponse();
    StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(myResponse.GetResponseStream(),
        System.Text.Encoding.UTF8);
    string result = sr.ReadToEnd();
    sr.Close();
    myResponse.Close();
    
    return result;
}

How do I find the text within a div in the source of the web page?

Answer 1

Better you can use the Webclient class to simplify your task:

using System.Net;

using (WebClient client = new WebClient())
{
    string htmlCode = client.DownloadString("http://somesite.com/default.html");
}