Due to the lack of proper documentation, I'm not sure if HtmlAgilityPack
supports screen capture in C# after it loads the html contents.
So is there a way I can more or less grab a screenshot using (or along with) HtmlAgilityPack so I can have a visual clue as to what happens every time I do page manipulations?
Here is my working code so far:
using HtmlAgilityPack;
using System;
namespace ConsoleApplication4
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string urlDemo = "https://htmlagilitypack.codeplex.com/";
HtmlWeb getHtmlWeb = new HtmlWeb();
var doc = getHtmlWeb.Load(urlDemo);
var sentence = doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//p");
int counter = 1;
try
{
foreach (var p in sentence)
{
Console.WriteLine(counter + ". " + p.InnerText);
counter++;
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine(e);
}
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}
Currently, it scrapes and output all the p
of the page in the console but at the same time I want to get a screen grab of the scraped contents but I don't know how and where to begin.
Any help is greatly appreciated. TIA
Could you use Selenium WebDriver instead?
You'll need to add the following NuGet packages to your project first:
Loading a page and taking a screenshot is then as simple as...
using System;
using System.Drawing.Imaging;
using System.IO;
using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;
namespace SeleniumTest
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// Create a web driver that used Firefox
var driver = new FirefoxDriver(
new FirefoxBinary(), new FirefoxProfile(), TimeSpan.FromSeconds(120));
// Load your page
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://google.com");
// Wait until the page has actually loaded
var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, new TimeSpan(0, 0, 10));
wait.Until(d => d.Title.Contains("Google"));
// Take a screenshot, and saves it to a file (you must have full access rights to the save location).
var myDesktop = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop);
((ITakesScreenshot)driver).GetScreenshot().SaveAsFile(Path.Combine(myDesktop, "google-screenshot.png"), ImageFormat.Png);
driver.Close();
}
}
}