How to scrape an image from a web url using C#

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I would like to scrape weather radar images for long term storage (and play back loops of previous time periods), for personal use. For example, from here: https://www.wunderground.com/maps/radar/current

How would I do this?

Thank you for any hints!

What I have tried:

I have tried to use the mshtml.IHTMLDocument2 COM interface but in the doc I cannot find a url reference to the actual radar image

Posted 5-Jan-21 7:14am

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RickZeeland · Answer 1 · 2021-01-05T08:20:00

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It seems HTML agility pack can do this:
Html Agility pack | Html Agility Pack[^]

See image example here: Using C# HTML agility pack to scrape the Image Source out of a particular table in a html page - Stack Overflow[^]

Posted 5-Jan-21 8:20am

RickZeeland