Regular Expression to get the SRC of images in C#

Question

I'm looking for a regular expression to isolate the src value of an img. (I know that this is not the best way to do this but this is what I have to do in this case)

I have a string which contains simple html code, some text and an image. I need to get the value of the src attribute from that string. I have managed only to isolate the whole tag till now.

string matchString = Regex.Match(original_text, @"(<img([^>]+)>)").Value;

Answer 1

string matchString = Regex.Match(original_text, "<img.+?src=[\"'](.+?)[\"'].*?>", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase).Groups[1].Value;

Answer 2

I know you say you have to use regex, but if possible i would really give this open source project a chance: HtmlAgilityPack

It is really easy to use, I just discovered it and it helped me out a lot, since I was doing some heavier html parsing. It basically lets you use XPATHS to get your elements.

Their example page is a little outdated, but the API is really easy to understand, and if you are a little bit familiar with xpaths you will get head around it in now time

The code for your query would look something like this: (uncompiled code)

 List<string> imgScrs = new List<string>();
 HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument();
 doc.LoadHtml(htmlText);//or doc.Load(htmlFileStream)
 var nodes = doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes(@"//img[@src]"); s
 foreach (var img in nodes)
 {
    HtmlAttribute att = img["src"];
    imgScrs.Add(att.Value)
 }

Answer 3

I tried what Francisco Noriega suggested, but it looks that the api to the HtmlAgilityPack has been altered. Here is how I solved it:

        List<string> images = new List<string>();
        WebClient client = new WebClient();
        string site = "http://www.mysite.com";
        var htmlText = client.DownloadString(site);

        var htmlDoc = new HtmlDocument()
                    {
                        OptionFixNestedTags = true,
                        OptionAutoCloseOnEnd = true
                    };

        htmlDoc.LoadHtml(htmlText);

        foreach (HtmlNode img in htmlDoc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//img"))
        {
            HtmlAttribute att = img.Attributes["src"];
            images.Add(att.Value);
        }

Answer 4

This should capture all img tags and just the src part no matter where its located (before or after class etc) and supports html/xhtml :D

<img.+?src="(.+?)".+?/?>