Browsing

A wrapper for C#'s WebClient

Uses HtmlAgilityPack library to extend the functionality of the standard .Net WebClient. An useful tool to create web crawlers and parsers.

An example of logging in to GitHub

Browser browser = new Browser();
browser.Encoding = Encoding.UTF8;

// Navigate to the login page
var loginPage = browser.Navigate("https://github.com/login");

// Extract arguments from the login form using xpath
var loginArgs = browser.ExtractArgs(loginPage, @"//div[@id='login']/form");

// Set arguments
loginArgs["login"].SetValue("your_login");
loginArgs["password"].SetValue("your_password");

// Post those arguments
var resultPage = browser.Post("https://github.com/session", loginArgs, false, true);

// Save the page to file
resultPage.Save("result.html");