Retrieve Description/ Meta tags from website as well as remove HTML

[Mark]

Hi all, does anyone know of a nice utility/ class which will allow me to
retrieve the details of a webpage?

Specifically, I would like to be able to retrive the html and then call a
method which would retrieve: meta tags
Keywords
Description
as well as another method which removes all the HTML from the string
starting at the body tag

Does one exist? I know I can write one using regular expressions etc but
rather than inventing the wheel

Thanks
Mark

 

[JV]

I assume you mean programmatically, since you can obviously hand-edit in VS
or even just NOTEPAD.

I had to do something like this to work around the VS bug where it
occasionally eats the closing tag on a <link> tag. I didn't do a whole lot
of research but here is what I can tell you.

1) the HTML parsers I found were expensive. I didn't find a free one. Least
not one that was useful.
2) Sometimes people use the IE browser control for DOM access, but I found
it to be pretty clunky for my purposes.
3) You can't really load it in an XML document because the HTML is rarely
well-formed XML (though maybe in VS2005 using XHTML it will be?)

I ended up doing some of my own string parsing since my need was relatively
simple.

 

[Wilbur Slice]

Hi all, does anyone know of a nice utility/ class which will allow me to
retrieve the details of a webpage?

Specifically, I would like to be able to retrive the html and then call a
method which would retrieve: meta tags
Keywords
Description
as well as another method which removes all the HTML from the string
starting at the body tag

Does one exist? I know I can write one using regular expressions etc but
rather than inventing the wheel

Thanks
Mark

Yeah, take a look at this:


http://www.codefluent.com/smourier/download/htmlagilitypack.zip

 

[Mark]

Thanks for you help guys
Cheers
Mark

Yeah, take a look at this:


http://www.codefluent.com/smourier/download/htmlagilitypack.zip