Given this URL:
http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/xml.php?showuser=1253
How can I download the resulting XML file and have it loaded to memory so I can grab information from it using Linq?
Thanks for the help.
Why complicate things? This works:
var xml = XDocument.Load("http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/xml.php?showuser=1253");
Load string:
string xml = new WebClient().DownloadString(url);
Then load into XML:
XDocument doc = XDocument.Parse(xml);
For example:
[Test]
public void TestSample()
{
string url = "http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/xml.php?showuser=1253";
string xml;
using (var webClient = new WebClient())
{
xml = webClient.DownloadString(url);
}
XDocument doc = XDocument.Parse(xml);
// in the result profile with id name is 'Nate'
string name = doc.XPathSelectElement("/ipb/profile[id='1253']/name").Value;
Assert.That(name, Is.EqualTo("Nate"));
}
You can use the WebClient
class:
WebClient client = new WebClient ();
Stream data = client.OpenRead ("http://example.com");
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader (data);
string s = reader.ReadToEnd ();
Console.WriteLine (s);
data.Close ();
reader.Close ();
Though using DownloadString
is easier:
WebClient client = new WebClient ();
string s = client.DownloadString("http://example.com");
You can load the resulting string into an XmlDocument
.
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