Question
My HTML looks like this:
<div id="footer">
<div id="footertext">
<p>
Copyright © FUCHS Online Ltd, 2013. All Rights Reserved.
</p>
</div>
</div>
I would like to obtain this text from the markup and store it as a string in my C# code: "Copyright © FUCHS Online Ltd, 2013. All Rights ".
This is what I have tried:
public string getvalue()
{
HtmlWeb web = new HtmlWeb();
HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument doc = web.Load("www.fuchsonline.com");
var link = doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//div[@id='footertext']");
return link.ToString();
}
This returns an object of type "HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlNodeCollection". How do I get just this text value?
Popular Answer
You need the value of one node. Therefore it is better to use SelectSingleNode method.
HtmlWeb web = new HtmlWeb();
var doc = web.Load("http://www.fuchsonline.com");
var link = doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//div[@id='footertext']/p");
string rawText = link.InnerText.Trim();
string decodedText = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(text); // or WebUtility
return decodedText;
Also you may need to decode the html entity ©.
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