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HtmlAgilityPack giving problems with malformed html

I want to extract meaningful text out of an html document and I was using html-agility-pack for the same. Here is my code: string convertedContent = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(ConvertHtml(HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlEntity.DeEntitize(htmlAsString))); ConvertHtml: public string ConvertHtml(string html) { HtmlDocument doc = new Html...

Using HTMLAgility Pack to Extract Links

Hi Folks, Consider this simplest piece of code: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using HtmlAgilityPack; namespace WebScraper { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument(); doc.LoadHtml("h...

Extracting a table row with a particular attribute,using HTMLAGILITY pack

Consider this piece of code: <tr> <td valign=top class="tim_new"><a href="/stocks/company_info/pricechart.php?sc_did=MI42" class="tim_new">3M India</a></td> <td class="tim_new" valign=top><a href='/stocks/marketstats/indcomp.php?optex=NSE&ind...

XPATH query, HtmlAgilityPack and Extracting Text

I had been trying to extract links from a class called "tim_new" . I have been given a solution as well. Both the solution, snippet and necessary information is given here The said XPATH query was "//a[@class='tim_new'], my question is, how did this query differentiate between the first line of the snippet (given in the link above and ...

Html Agility Pack usage

How can i select all html tags using Html Agility Pack and put it in a List so i can see all the available tags in a web page. Thanks, jepe ...

how to get innerTextwithin the node in HTML AGILity pack..?

<a> contents <strong>strong content</strong> </a> I want a only the "contents" i.e present between <a> and <strong> ...

How does this XPATH query differentiate?

I am kind of repeating this question because mostly due to my own ignorance, I could not fully understand the innards. Given this HTML snippet <td valign=top class="tim_new"> <a href="/stocks/company_info/pricechart.php?sc_did=MI42" class="tim_new">3M India</a> </td> <td class="tim_new" valign=top> <a href='/stocks/marketstats/indc...

Cannot convert type 'string' to 'HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument'?

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Net; using HtmlAgilityPack; namespace sss { public class Downloader { WebClient client = new WebClient(); public HtmlDocument FindMovie(string Title) { //This will be implemented later on, it w...

How can I extract things from Divs using HTMLAgilityPack?

I'm learning how to use the library for the first time and would like some help. Consider I have this somewhere in my HTMLDocument: <h1>Casablanca <span>(<a href="/year/2010/">2010</a>) <span class="pro-link"><a href="http://pro.imdb.com/rg/maindetails-title/tconst-pro-header-link/title/tt1226229/"&gt;More at <strong>IMDbPro</strong></...

How can I get all content within <td> tag using a HTML Agility Pack?

So I'm writing an application that will do a little screen scrapping. I'm using the HTML Agility Pack to load an entire HTML page into an instance of HtmlDocoument called doc. Now I want to parse that doc, looking for this: <table border="0" cellspacing="3"> <tr><td>First rows stuff</td></tr> <tr> <td> The data I want is in here <br />...

How could I parse this HTML file?

<div id="main"> <style type="text/css"> </style> <script language="JavaScript"> </script> <p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0.5em;"><b>Media from&nbsp;<a onclick="(new Image()).src='/rg/find-media-title/media_strip/images/b.gif?link=/title/tt0087538/';" href="/title/tt0087538/">The Karate Kid</a> (1984)</b></p> <style type="text/css"> ...

Html Agility Pack: DescendantsOrSelf() not returning HTML element

I have some HTML, eg: <%@ Page Title="About Us" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Site.master" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="ContentManagedTargetPage.aspx.cs" Inherits="xxx.ContentManagedTargetPage" %> <%@ Register TagPrefix="CxCMS" Namespace="xxx.ContentManagement.ASPNET.UI" Assembly="xxx.ContentManagement.ASPNET" %> <asp:Conten...

Can I set values to inputs inside of my WebBrowser control?

I have a web page loaded into a WebBrowser object. What I want to do is access the elements on that page to input data. For example, enter username and password and submit the form. How is this possible? Any ideas? Could I use HTMLAgilityPack to access the elements and set their values? ...

Can Javascript be written in a html href tag?

Hi I am trying to figure out all the ways javascript can be written. I am making a white list of acceptable tags however the attributes are getting me. In my rich html editor I allow stuff like links. <a href="">Hi </a> Now I am using html agility pack to get rid of attributes I won't support and html tags for that matter. However ...

Problem parsing children of a node with HtmlAgilityPack

Hi All, I'm having a problem parsing the input tag children of a form in html. I can parse them from the root using //input[@type] but not as children of a specific node. Here's some code that illustrates the problem: private const string HTML_CONTENT = "<html>" + "<head>" + "<title>Test Page</title>" + ...

HTML Agility Pack strip tags NOT IN whitelist

I'm trying to create a function which removes html tags and attributes which are not in a white list. I have the following HTML: <b>first text </b> <b>second text here <a>some text here</a> <a>some text here</a> </b> <a>some twxt here</a> I am using HTML agility pack and the code I have so far is: static List<string> Whit...

html agility pack question in parsing

Hi All, I have this simple string: string testString = "6/21 <span style='font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial'><span style='font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial'>Just got 78th street</span></span>"; how do i use the html agility pack to parse out just the text. please note: there is a span nested inside another span. thanks, rod....

Adding OR clause in Node selection criteria - HTMLAgility

Can I put OR clause in node selection using HTMLAgility (HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlNodeCollection)doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//td[@class=\"roomPrice figure\"]"); What I need is some times it should be like SelectNodes("//td[@class=\"roomPrice figure\"]"); and some times it is like SelectNodes("//td[@class=\"roomPrice figure bb\"]"); I ...

Stripping all html tags with Html Agility Pack

Hi forum I have a html string like this: <html><body><p>foo <a href='http://www.example.com'&gt;bar&lt;/a&gt; baz</p></body></html> I wish to strip all html tags so that the resulting string becomes: foo bar baz From another post here at SO I've come up with this function (which uses the Html Agility Pack): Public Shared Functi...

Exception while querying HTML for ID using HTML Agility Pack

I'm using the HTML Agility pack to parse an ASPX file inside Visual Studio. I'm searching for an element with a specified ID attribute. The code I'm using is: var html = new HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument(); html.LoadHtml(docText); if (html.DocumentNode != null) { try { var tagsWithId = html.DocumentNode.SelectNodes(...