Fetching the data from website without having access to database

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Hi,

I have already discussed this but i got a clarity on the concept so asking again.

1. There is a website in remote machine.I need to open in internet explorer.
2. I do have a data in that where i need to login to that site and click on the particular tab and select the particular index in the dropdown.
3. Then i wiil get the required information where.

Now my task is, i need to create a windows application where i have to login to machine remotely and fetch the data.

Can anyone help me on this whether we can do this through windows application? Thanks in advance.

What I have tried:

I tried with web browser control but using that gives no time consuming instead of opening in internet explorer, it will open in web browser.
We do not have backend access.

Posted 20-Mar-16 20:53pm

Member 8010354

Updated 20-Mar-16 21:25pm

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Sinisa Hajnal 21-Mar-16 3:24am

I believe the original question got advice to contact the owner / admin of the site and request access?

Anyhow, there are .NET classes such as HttpClient that can be used to access the page(s) you require. Play around a bit and see if that is any faster then browser access.

Member 8010354 22-Mar-16 8:14am

I tried logging into website so i felt like it works with javascript and below is my code:

<html>
<title>Ikariam Autologin</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="loginForm" name="loginForm" method="post" action="http:www.gmail.com">
<select name="uni_url" id="logServer" class="validate[required]">
<option class="" value="ID@gmail.com" fbUrl="" cookieName="" >
Test_en
</option>
</select>
<input id="loginName" name="name" type="text" value="PlayersName" class="" />
<input id="loginPassword" name="password" type="password" value="Site_Password" class="" />
<input type="hidden" id="loginKid" name="kid" value=""/>
</form>

<script>document.loginForm.submit();</script>

I'm not getting any error but i'm getting a combobox, texbox1 (with text inside "PlayersName"), textbox2 (dotsssss).

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Garth J Lancaster · Answer 1 · 2016-03-20T21:24:00

Solution 1

this article describes a good approach to web-scraping Webscraping with C#[^]

there are plenty of article on the web about using a web browser control for scraping, but you dont supply enough information to say why it didnt work for you ... sorry, you supply 'some information', but I dont know what you really mean by

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I tried with web browser control but using that gives no time consuming instead of opening in internet explorer, it will open in web browser.

Posted 20-Mar-16 21:24pm

Garth J Lancaster

Updated 20-Mar-16 21:25pm

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Member 8010354 22-Mar-16 6:38am

I tried logging into website so i felt like it works with javascript and below is my code:

<html>
<title>Ikariam Autologin</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="loginForm" name="loginForm" method="post" action="http:www.gmail.com">
<select name="uni_url" id="logServer" class="validate[required]">
<option class="" value="ID@gmail.com" fbUrl="" cookieName="" >
Test_en
</option>
</select>
<input id="loginName" name="name" type="text" value="PlayersName" class="" />
<input id="loginPassword" name="password" type="password" value="Site_Password" class="" />
<input type="hidden" id="loginKid" name="kid" value=""/>
</form>

<script>document.loginForm.submit();</script>

I'm not getting any error but i'm getting a combobox, texbox1 (with text inside "PlayersName"), textbox2 (dotsssss).