Access Google Chrome Inspect Element with .NET

Question

I have a problem and I can't quite find the solution. My task is to access the text provided from Google Chrome Inspect Element. For example - if I would be given a webpage "http://stackoverflow.com" then I should get the text located in Inspect Element (right click->Inspect element). Does anyone know how to do this in .NET?

PS I have an alternative solution, but I want to maximize the effectiveness of this task. My current solution is making .NET to open Google Chrome programmatically and then with keyboard shortcuts access the Inspect Element text. But I would like to do this in background(the programm does everything while I'm doing some other stuff).

Answer 1

Do you want to download the page source? Because that is basically what inspect element does. Please tell me if i'm wrong.

string remoteUri = "http://www.contoso.com/library/homepage/images/";
            string fileName = "ms-banner.gif", myStringWebResource = null;
            // Create a new WebClient instance.
            WebClient myWebClient = new WebClient();
            // Concatenate the domain with the Web resource filename.
            myStringWebResource = remoteUri + fileName;
            Console.WriteLine("Downloading File \"{0}\" from \"{1}\" .......\n\n", fileName, myStringWebResource);
            // Download the Web resource and save it into the current filesystem folder.
            myWebClient.DownloadFile(myStringWebResource,fileName);     
            Console.WriteLine("Successfully Downloaded File \"{0}\" from \"{1}\"", fileName, myStringWebResource);
            Console.WriteLine("\nDownloaded file saved in the following file system folder:\n\t" + Application.StartupPath);

Not my code, it's from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ez801hhe.aspx?cs-save-lang=1&cs-lang=csharp#code-snippet-2 .

Then you can use whatever function to read the file and use the source.