Is there any way to get the content of an element or control of an open web page in a browser from a c# app?
I tried to get the window ex, but I don't know how to use it after to have any sort of communication with it. I also tried this code:
using (var client = new WebClient()) { var contents = client.DownloadString("http://www.google.com"); Console.WriteLine(contents); } This code gives me a lot of data I can't use.
You could use an HTML parser such as HTML Agility Pack to extract the information you are interested in from the HTML you downloaded:
using (var client = new WebClient()) { // Download the HTML string html = client.DownloadString("http://www.google.com"); // Now feed it to HTML Agility Pack: HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument(); doc.LoadHtml(html); // Now you could query the DOM. For example you could extract // all href attributes from all anchors: foreach(HtmlNode link in doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//a[@href]")) { HtmlAttribute href = link.Attributes["href"]; if (href != null) { Console.WriteLine(href.Value); } } } 
