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Is there a way to get a Message from a website(like copy it), then have it show up in a textbox? If, so can you provide an example?

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Short answer: fetch the page HTML, parse the DOM to find the node that contains "TEST", then assign its text to the textbox. Fetching raw HTML was suggested by and , and the modern, robust way in .NET is to use HttpClient (or IHttpClientFactory in long‑running apps) rather than legacy WebRequest patterns. (learn.microsoft.com)

A simple, practical pattern (C#) is: request the page with HttpClient, load the HTML into an HTML parser, find the element by id/class/XPath or selector, then read its InnerText and put that into the textbox. Install an HTML parser (example below uses HtmlAgilityPack) and avoid reimplementing parsing with brittle string code. Example (replace the id and URL with your values):

using System.Net.Http;
using HtmlAgilityPack;

async Task<string> GetTextByIdAsync(string url, string elementId)
{
    using var client = new HttpClient();
    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.UserAgent.ParseAdd("Mozilla/5.0 (compatible)");
    var html = await client.GetStringAsync(url);
    var doc = new HtmlDocument();
    doc.LoadHtml(html);
    var node = doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode($"//*[@id='{elementId}']");
    return node?.InnerText?.Trim();
}

// usage (from an async event handler)
textBox1.Text = await GetTextByIdAsync("https://example.com", "target");

HtmlAgilityPack is a tolerant, widely used parser for real‑world HTML; it makes extracting node text by XPath trivial. (github.com)

Do not use regular expressions to parse arbitrary HTML — it works only for limited, predictable cases and breaks easily; use an HTML DOM parser instead. If you want a modern, standards‑compliant DOM with querySelector support, consider AngleSharp as an alternative. For pages that generate content with JavaScript, a parser alone won’t see runtime text — use a browser engine (WebBrowser/CEF/Playwright/Selenium) like suggested. (stackoverflow.com)

Quick tips: set a sensible timeout and User‑Agent header, ensure encoding is handled correctly, and respect a site’s robots.txt / terms of service before scraping (robots.txt is an established protocol). If results are missing, check for JS rendering or anti‑scraping defenses. (datatracker.ietf.org)

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Member Avatar for kvprajapati

>so can you provide an example?

You can use HttpWebRequest class or WebBrowser control.

Member Avatar for farooqaaa

You can use WebRequest.

Here's an example:

Add reference: "using System.Net;"

WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("http://www.google.com");
WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();

System.IO.StreamReader reader = new System.IO.StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());

textBox1.Text = reader.ReadToEnd();
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Say I wanted to get this text : TEST

How would I get that?

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