Saving HTML Table as xml or json

Question

I'm looking for a way to save a table from an html page as xml or json. The current method i'm using save the entire page as and xls sheet and then reads the sheet using Office.InterLop.Excel. I want to skip saving the file and just read directly from the page using HttpRequest. Any ideas?

Answer 1

I assume you mean that you'd like to scrape the contents of a web page without File-> Save As? Code project has a writeup explaining using HttpWebRequest to do just that. Or, you could use the newer HttpClient . Once you retrieve the HTML, you'll have to parse it yourself.

In the MSDN artticle , they're actually requesting JSON directly, so they don't have to deal with parsing, but you could very easily write up a RegularExpression to capture the table body.