Fetch the content of a website

[Krishna Varadharajan]

Hi, How can i fetch the content of a website using c# (windows app). Purpose is to upload in our search engine. Thanx

krishna

[Lost User]

For search engine, you only need to read meta tags. Here is nice video[^] for the same. Also find following links useful. http://www.codeasp.net/blogs/teisenhauer/microsoft-net/170/parse-meta-tags-in-c-sharp[^] HTH

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[Krishna Varadharajan]

Hi, Thanks for your info. what you said is true, only meta tag is enough... but in some situation we wont get i hope....for example type following tag in google "times of india sports" from that result check the third link "More Sports - Sports - The Times of India" which is the current updation of the website ...... how we can get those current updation results which is not mention in meta-tag. Even i may be wrong clear my doubt pls. Thanks

krishna

[Lost User]

For such situation, I think you need to search html for required information. Once you have complete html of website you can easily search any content within it. For that you need to do "Screen Scraping"[^]. Find following link useful for the same. http://www.codersource.net/microsoft-net/c-advanced/html-screen-scraping-in-c.aspx[^] HTH

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[Pete OHanlon]

Errm no you don't. The use of meta tags is nowhere near enough.

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[Pete OHanlon]

Have a look at this[^] article on a fully featured search engine in C#.

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[Krishna Varadharajan]

Hi, Thank you so much for your information, i will check those links and let u know.... Thanks

krishna

[Krishna Varadharajan]

Wow...thts really cool....thanks alot for your information.

krishna

[Bernhard Hiller]

Meta tags often do not tell anything useful about the content of a page, they are often more like spam. I do not use them for such a purpose and nonetheless reach nice Google ranks for my pages.