Question
I have been trying to download an public Instagram profile to the fetch stats such as followers and bio. I have been doing this in a c# console application and downloading the HTML using HTML Agility Pack.
Code:
string url = @"https://www.instagram.com/" + Console.ReadLine() + @"/?hl=en";
Console.WriteLine();
HtmlWeb web = new HtmlWeb();
HtmlDocument document = web.Load(url);
document.Save(path1);
When I save it though all I get is a bunch of scripts and a blank screen:
I was wondering how to save the html once all the scripts had run and formed the content
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ANSWER
Thanks for the suggestions on how to download the HTML! I managed to return some instagram information in the end. Here is the code:
//(This was done using HTML Agility Pack)
string url = @"https://www.instagram.com/" + Console.ReadLine() + @"/?hl=en";
HtmlWeb web = new HtmlWeb();
HtmlDocument document = web.Load(url);
var metas = document.DocumentNode.Descendants("meta");
var followers = metas.FirstOrDefault(_ => _.HasProperty("name", "description"));
if (followers == null) { Console.WriteLine("Sorry, Can't Find Profile :("); return; }
var content = followers.Attributes["content"].Value.StopAt('-');
Console.WriteLine(content);
And HasProperty() & StopAt()
public static bool HasProperty(this HtmlNode node, string property, params string[] valueArray)
{
var propertyValue = node.GetAttributeValue(property, "");
var propertyValues = propertyValue.Split(' ');
return valueArray.All(c => propertyValues.Contains(c));
}
public static string StopAt(this string input, char stopAt)
{
int x = input.IndexOf(stopAt);
return input.Substring(0, x);
}
NOTE:
However this is still not the answer I am looking for. I still have a wreck of HTML which is not structred the same as the HTML I recieve when I look at it in Google Chrome. Doing some searching in the HTML I managed to scalvage the content-less html for a meta tag which contains the content. This is okay for this but if I going to continue this method of finding HTML content then it may not be the same :(
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public MainWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();
WB_1.Navigate(@"https://www.instagram.com/" + Console.ReadLine() + @"/?hl=en");
WB_1.LoadCompleted += wb_LoadCompleted;
}
void wb_LoadCompleted(object sender, NavigationEventArgs e)
{
dynamic doc = WB_1.Document;
string htmlText = doc.documentElement.InnerHtml;
}