Write a Web API in c# to extract the data from a website

Question

Hello, I need to accoplish a Web API task which is given to me,actually i need to write a Web API in C# to extract the data from some external website(ex:- www.mywebsite.com) and populate those data in my web api . Please guide how should i start this . Thanks you

Jefferson S. Motta · Answer

Your web API will be an URL: www.myapi.com/api.aspx? Your api.aspx will have the code I provided. Or you just don't how do it? There are samples like this: https://www.tutorialsteacher.com/webapi/create-web-api-project Google: https://www.google.com.br/search?q=how+create+a+web+api+c%23&ie=UTF-8&oe=

Ritendra Mall · Answer

Thank you for the help

Ritendra Mall · Answer

Thank you the suggestion but my requirement is to create a web api application in c# & consume a external website url to get the data .

Jefferson S. Motta · Answer

May you need something like this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16642196/get-html-code-from-website-in-c-sharp using HtmlAgilityPack; using Fizzler.Systems.HtmlAgilityPack; //get the page var web = new HtmlWeb(); var document = web.Load( "http://example.com/page.html" ); var page = document.DocumentNode; //loop through all div tags with item css class foreach (var item in page.QuerySelectorAll( "div.item" )) { var title = item.QuerySelector( "h3:not(.share)" ).InnerText; var date = DateTime.Parse(item.QuerySelector( "span:eq(2)" ).InnerText); var description = item.QuerySelector( "span:has(b)" ).InnerHtml; }