Get the content of an url in C#

Posted on: December 8th, 2009

This is a easy way to get the content of a url into a string. You only need to open a new connection using HttpWebRequest, make a request and read the stream into a string. see the example below:

using System;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;

class functions
{
public static String GetUrlContent(String Url)
{
// Open a connection
HttpWebRequest hwr = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(Url);

// Specify header information like
hwr.UserAgent = "simra.ch GetUrlContent";
hwr.Referer = "http://www.simra.ch/";

// Get the Request
WebResponse wr = hwr.GetResponse();

// Open a new Stream
Stream ws = wr.GetResponseStream();

// Create a SteamReader
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(ws);

// Read the stream
String content = sr.ReadToEnd();

// Cleanup
sr.Close();
ws.Close();
wr.Close();

return content;
}
}

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