How to use HTML Agility pack

Question

How do I use the HTML Agility Pack?

My XHTML document is not completely valid. That\'s why I wanted to use it. How do I use it in my project? My project is in C#.

Answer 1

I don't know if this will be of any help to you, but I have written a couple of articles which introduce the basics.

• HtmlAgilityPack Article Series
• Introduction To The HtmlAgilityPack Library
• Easily extracting links from a snippet of html with HtmlAgilityPack

The next article is 95% complete, I just have to write up explanations of the last few parts of the code I have written. If you are interested then I will try to remember to post here when I publish it.

Answer 2

Main HTMLAgilityPack related code is as follows

using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Services;
using System.Web.Script.Services;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using HtmlAgilityPack;

namespace GetMetaData
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Summary description for MetaDataWebService
    /// </summary>
    [WebService(Namespace = "http://tempuri.org/")]
    [WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)]
    [System.ComponentModel.ToolboxItem(false)]
    // To allow this Web Service to be called from script, using ASP.NET AJAX, uncomment the following line.
    [System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptService]
    public class MetaDataWebService: System.Web.Services.WebService
    {
        [WebMethod]
        [ScriptMethod(UseHttpGet = false)]
        public MetaData GetMetaData(string url)
        {
            MetaData objMetaData = new MetaData();

            //Get Title
            WebClient client = new WebClient();
            string sourceUrl = client.DownloadString(url);

            objMetaData.PageTitle = Regex.Match(sourceUrl, @
            "\<title\b[^>]*\>\s*(?<Title>[\s\S]*?)\</title\>", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase).Groups["Title"].Value;

            //Method to get Meta Tags
            objMetaData.MetaDescription = GetMetaDescription(url);
            return objMetaData;
        }

        private string GetMetaDescription(string url)
        {
            string description = string.Empty;

            //Get Meta Tags
            var webGet = new HtmlWeb();
            var document = webGet.Load(url);
            var metaTags = document.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//meta");

            if (metaTags != null)
            {
                foreach(var tag in metaTags)
                {
                    if (tag.Attributes["name"] != null && tag.Attributes["content"] != null && tag.Attributes["name"].Value.ToLower() == "description")
                    {
                        description = tag.Attributes["content"].Value;
                    }
                }
            } 
            else
            {
                description = string.Empty;
            }
            return description;
        }
    }
}

Answer 3

try this

string htmlBody = ParseHmlBody(dtViewDetails.Rows[0]["Body"].ToString());

private string ParseHmlBody(string html)
        {
            string body = string.Empty;
            try
            {
                var htmlDoc = new HtmlDocument();
                htmlDoc.LoadHtml(html);
                var htmlBody = htmlDoc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//body");
                body = htmlBody.OuterHtml;
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {

                dalPendingOrders.LogMessage("Error in ParseHmlBody" + ex.Message);
            }
            return body;
        }

Answer 4

HtmlAgilityPack uses XPath syntax, and though many argues that it is poorly documented, I had no trouble using it with help from this XPath documentation: https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xpath_syntax.asp

To parse

<h2>
  <a href="">Jack</a>
</h2>
<ul>
  <li class="tel">
    <a href="">81 75 53 60</a>
  </li>
</ul>
<h2>
  <a href="">Roy</a>
</h2>
<ul>
  <li class="tel">
    <a href="">44 52 16 87</a>
  </li>
</ul>

I did this:

string url = "http://website.com";
var Webget = new HtmlWeb();
var doc = Webget.Load(url);
foreach (HtmlNode node in doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//h2//a"))
{
  names.Add(node.ChildNodes[0].InnerHtml);
}
foreach (HtmlNode node in doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//li[@class='tel']//a"))
{
  phones.Add(node.ChildNodes[0].InnerHtml);
}

Answer 5

Getting Started - HTML Agility Pack

// From File
var doc = new HtmlDocument();
doc.Load(filePath);

// From String
var doc = new HtmlDocument();
doc.LoadHtml(html);

// From Web
var url = "http://html-agility-pack.net/";
var web = new HtmlWeb();
var doc = web.Load(url);

Answer 6

    public string HtmlAgi(string url, string key)
    {

        var Webget = new HtmlWeb();
        var doc = Webget.Load(url);
        HtmlNode ourNode = doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode(string.Format("//meta[@name='{0}']", key));

        if (ourNode != null)
        {


                return ourNode.GetAttributeValue("content", "");

        }
        else
        {
            return "not fount";
        }

    }