Super Easy .NET Scraping

23. February 2008

Automated screen scraping is great way to get fresh data into your network of money making sites (duh) and into your PPC campaigns without spending all your time updating sites.  The HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse objects fit the bill well for just such scraping (thank you Microsoft).  ASP.NET Library has a handy little article that sums it up well. They've also got another little sweet nugget of code that'll pull an HTML table of any page and dump it in a .NET dataset. Once you get the data in a DataSet it's putty in your hands (aka money in your wallet). Use that code against any page that displays data in a table and you own it. You don't have to look far to find money making data in an html table. Money mouth Cha-ching.

 Also,  want to scrape email dropped in your Outlook mail client? Take a peek at Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem in the Outlook Object Model. Sweetness.

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