Get links inside a DIV

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Get links inside a DIV

.net c# html-agility-pack windows-phone-8 xpath

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I want to be able to get first link from inside this div.

    <div id="first-tweet-wrapper">
    <blockquote class="tweet" lang="en">
    <a href="htttp://link.com">                          <--- This one
      text    </a>
  </blockquote>
  <a href="http://link2.net" class="click-tracking" target="_blank"
     data-tracking-category="discover" data-tracking-action="tweet-the-tweet">
    Tweet it!  </a>
</div>

I've tried with this code but it doesn't work

HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument();
doc.LoadHtml(source);

var div = doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//div[@id='first-tweet-wrapper']");
if (div != null)
{
      var links = div.Descendants("a")
          .Select(a => a.InnerText)
          .ToList();
}

Alessandro S.

Popular Answer

Assuming your <div> id is "first-tweet-wrapper" instead of "firt", you can use this XPath query to get <a> element inside <blockquote> :

//div[@id='first-tweet-wrapper']/blockquote/a

So your code will look about like this :

var a = doc.DocumentNode
             .SelectSingleNode("//div[@id='first-tweet-wrapper']/blockquote/a");
if (a != null)
{
      var text = a.InnerText;
      var link = a.GetAttributeValue("href", "");
}

har07

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pasty · Accepted Answer · 3/22/2014 5:37:40 PM

You need to take the value of the href-attribute of the anchor element using HtmlAgilityPack's GetAttributeValue method. You could access the single anchor element by extracting directly the content of the parent blockcode element like this:

//div[@id='first-tweet-wrapper']/blockquote[@class='twitter-tweet']

Then fetch the single link inside. A possible solution could look like this (in this case the input is facebook, but works with microsoft too):

try
{           
    // download the html source
    var webClient = new WebClient();
    var source = webClient.DownloadString(@"https://discover.twitter.com/first-tweet?username=facebook#facebook");
    HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument();
    doc.LoadHtml(source);

    var div = doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//div[@id='first-tweet-wrapper']/blockquote[@class='twitter-tweet']");
    if (div != null)
    {
        // there is only one links
        var link = div.Descendants("a").FirstOrDefault();
        if (link != null)
        {
            // take the value of the attribute
            var href = link.GetAttributeValue("href", "");
            Console.WriteLine(href);
        }
    }
}
catch (Exception exception)
{
    Console.WriteLine(exception.Message);
}

The output is in this case:

https://twitter.com/facebook/statuses/936094700

Another possibility is to directly select the anchor element using XPath (like @har07 suggested):

    var xpath = @"//div[@id='first-tweet-wrapper']/blockquote[@class='twitter-tweet']/a";
    var link = doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode(xpath);
    if (link != null)
    {
        // take the value of the href-attribute
        var href = link.GetAttributeValue("href", "");
        Console.WriteLine(href);
    }

The output is the same as above.

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