Getting data from a webpage table

Question

I know how to read content from a web page , but I am stuck to extract valid content from the page. i want to extract only tables that have some data content. and i have no table id. Like i want to get tables from below link...use c sharp

http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/service/location.html

Answer 1

In general, for parsing out data from HTML, you should use a purpose built HTML parser.

Two good options are:

• HTML Agility Pack - uses XPath / LINQ to query the parsed HTML
• CsQuery - uses jQuery like selector syntax to query the parsed HTML

The choice between the two should boil down to which query syntax you (and your team) are more comfortable with.