How do I extract info from a webpage?

Question

I want to collect some data from the front page of a website. I can easily run through each line and it is only one specific one that I am interested in. So I want to identify t

Answer 1

Parsing html page with regexes is wrong. Still if you know the exact structure of a single html line, you can use regex without thinking about the line as an html code.

Assuming that the number always is within the brackets and the span with jix_channels_count class:

Match match = Regex.Match(htmlLine, @"(\]*class=""jix_channels_count[^>]*\>\()([^)]+)(\))", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
if (match.Success)
{
    string number = match.Groups[2].Value;
}