Finding href, id and classes of all links in a web page

Question

I need to find all links in a web page and its href, id and class properties/attributes..

Even though all links would have only one href and id, it could have multiple classes and so classes will have to be captured in a list.

I found this to find all links and their href also found the htmlagilitypack

I'm not familiar with html parsing and so would appreciate if some one could help me in geting the id and classes for the links.

Any help is sincerely appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

htmlagilitypack is a great tool. You can use linq to search all 'a' tags in a web page.

let's look at this sample:

 HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlWeb().Load("http://www.google.com");

 IEnumerable<HtmlNode> linkedPages = doc.DocumentNode.Descendants("a");
 foreach (var item in linkedPages)
 {
    Console.WriteLine("Href : " + item.GetAttributeValue("href", string.Empty) +
    " id : " + item.GetAttributeValue("id", string.Empty) +
    " class : " + item.GetAttributeValue("class", string.Empty));
 }

Ludo