How to use RestSharp for a regular webpage

Question

How would I go about using restsharp for collecting web pages which aren't explicitly api calls?

The tutorials all seem api related.

I would still be using it in a similar way, I've tried both Get and Post methods but neither seem to be returning the page that I am after? I would also say I can't tell that/if the parameters in request.Resource

http://targetwebpage.com/Results/ {date}/{track}/{race}

 var client = new RestClient("http://targetwebpage.com");
 string resource = "/Results/{date}/{track}/{race}";

 var request = new RestRequest(resource, Method.Post);
 request.AddUrlSegment("{date}", "20141001"); 
// supposed to replace matching token in request.Resource but isn't

request.AddUrlSegment("{track}", "Australia"); 
request.AddUrlSegment("{race}", "1"); 
var re = client.Execute(request);

Console.WriteLine(re.Content);

Any general pointers about my misuse of RestSharp?

Answer 1

RestSharp is (unsurprisingly) only intended for use with ReSTful API endpoints - I think you'd be better off using something like WebClient;

using (WebClient client = new WebClient())
{
    string htmlCode = client.DownloadString("http://www.google.com");
}

You don't specify what format the data is in which should be returned from your endpoint, so my answer is pretty much just a guess - however you should be able to process the htmlCode variable with a JSON formatter or an XML interpreter to get the results you're after. If you can supply an example of the data returned then I'd be able to help further.