Screen scraping using Asp.Net

Screen Scraping, in terms of programmer means fetching data from a website into your application. To talk more technically, it is actually a way by which your application extracts data from the output of some other program. This technique is basically making the request and parsing the response. This can help you in a tremendous way. You can scrape all products from a website and put them in your application or save them in a spreadsheet, you can do comparisons by scraping data from multiple sites and do research or analysis.

To perform Screen scraping in ASP.NET, we will be using the WebResponse and the WebRequest objects. For this you will need to import System.Net namespace.

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  • Is there any way to convert the output into an image format. In other words, can we capture the webpage as an image. I've solution for capturing the visible length of webpage, but not the full length of the webpage.

    Help me if you have any idea to convert the full page as an image.

    Regards,

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