public List <Celeb> InitCelebsList()
{
// Get all celebs list from imdb
celebsList.Clear();
HtmlWeb webImdb = new HtmlWeb();
HtmlDocument docImdb = webImdb.Load(celebsListUrl);
HtmlWeb webImdCelebBiography = new HtmlWeb();
HtmlNodeCollection nodes = docImdb.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//div[@class='lister-item mode-detail']");
foreach (HtmlNode node in nodes)
{
string fullName = node.SelectNodes(".//h3[@class='lister-item-header']//a").First().InnerHtml.TrimStart().TrimEnd();
char[] delimiterChars = { '|' };
string title = node.SelectNodes(".//p[@class='text-muted text-small']").First().InnerText.TrimStart().Split(delimiterChars)[0].TrimEnd();
var picture = node.SelectNodes(".//div[@class='lister-item-image']//img//@src").First().Attributes.Where(i => i.Name == "src").FirstOrDefault().Value;
string celebBioUrl = node.SelectNodes(".//h3[@class='lister-item-header']//a//@href").First().Attributes.Where(i => i.Name == "href").FirstOrDefault().Value;
celebBioUrl = "https://www.imdb.com/" + celebBioUrl;
string birthDate = "unknown";
Celeb celeb = new Celeb(fullName, birthDate, title, picture);
celebsList.Add(celeb);
// Optional:
//to get birth Data from additional bio url for each celeb..
//but it slows down the loading time needs another 100 web calls.
//HtmlDocument docImdbCelebBiography = webImdCelebBio.Load(celebBiographyUrl);
//birthDate = docImdbCelebBiography.DocumentNode.SelectNodes(".//div[@id='name-born-info']//time").First().Attributes.Where(i => i.Name == "datetime").FirstOrDefault().Value;
}
WriteDataToJsonFile();
return(celebsList);
}
// Add new element to Celebs List
public void AddCelebToList(Celeb celeb)
{
celebsList.Add(celeb);
WriteDataToJsonFile();
}
