/// <summary>
/// Fetches and returns information about the site that would later be used to parse cases
/// </summary>
/// <returns></returns>
private static async Task <SiteData> GetSiteData()
{
string site = await HtmlFetcher.RetrieveFromUrl("https://csgostash.com/");
var doc = new HtmlDocument();
doc.LoadHtml(site);
//Target the li tags with a class of dropdown
IEnumerable <HtmlNode> liData =
doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//li[@class='dropdown']");
var siteData = new SiteData
{
//Get URL data from dropdowns
CaseUrLs = GetDropdownOption(liData, "newest cases", "/case/"),
KnifeUrLs = GetDropdownOption(liData, "newest knives", "/weapon/"),
CollectionUrLs = GetDropdownOption(liData, "newest collections", "/collection/"),
//Fetch the urLs for souvenirs, stickers, tournament stickers
SouvenirUrLs = await GetPaginationUrls(liData, "newest cases", "souvenir-package"),
StickerUrLs = await GetPaginationUrls(liData, "tournament stickers", "/stickers/regular"),
TournamentStickerUrLs = await GetPaginationUrls(liData, "tournament stickers", "/stickers/tournament")
};
return(siteData);
}
private static async Task <int> GetPaginationPagesCount(string url)
{
var page = await HtmlFetcher.RetrieveFromUrl(url);
var doc = new HtmlDocument();
doc.LoadHtml(page);
doc.LoadHtml(doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//ul[@class='pagination']").FirstOrDefault()?.InnerHtml); //Select and load the first pagination button
IEnumerable <string> innerText = doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//li").Select(n => n.InnerText); //Extract the inner text from li options
//Cycle through each li and get the highest one
int highestVal = 1;
foreach (string s in innerText)
{
if (int.TryParse(s, out int val))
{
if (val > highestVal)
{
highestVal = val;
}
}
}
return(highestVal);
}
private static async Task <List <DataCollection> > ParseGridItems(IEnumerable <string> souvenirUrLs, string nameXpath, string collectionXpath)
{
Logger.Log("Fetching/parsing Souvenirs...");
var souvenirCollections = new List <DataCollection>();
//Parse through the souvenirs for names, and the collection
foreach (string souvenirUrL in souvenirUrLs.ToList())
{
string page = await HtmlFetcher.RetrieveFromUrl(souvenirUrL);
HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument();
doc.LoadHtml(page);
//Filter to the class "well result-box nomargin"
List <string> filteredDivs = doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("html/body/div/div/div/div").Where(n =>
n.Attributes["class"].Value.Contains("well result-box nomargin")).Select(n => n.InnerHtml).ToList();
//Extract name and collection
foreach (string filteredDiv in filteredDivs)
{
HtmlDocument filteredDoc = new HtmlDocument();
filteredDoc.LoadHtml(filteredDiv); //Exception is likely from loading invalid HTML
//Extract case name
string name = ExtractStringFromTags(filteredDoc, nameXpath);
//Extract case collection
string itemCollection = ExtractStringFromTags(filteredDoc, collectionXpath).Replace("\n", "");
string iconUrL = ExtractImgSrc(doc, "img-responsive center-block");
//Add to souvenirCollections
var souvenirCollection = new DataCollection()
{
Name = name,
CaseCollection = itemCollection,
IconUrL = iconUrL
};
souvenirCollections.Add(souvenirCollection);
}
}
return(souvenirCollections);
}
private static async Task <Dictionary <string, List <string> > > ParseKnives(IEnumerable <string> masterKnifeUrLs)
{
masterKnifeUrLs = masterKnifeUrLs.ToList();
Logger.Log("Extracting knife names from URL...");
List <string> knifeUrLsList = masterKnifeUrLs.ToList();
var knifeNames = new List <string>();
//Extract the knife names by themselves from the list
foreach (string knifeUrL in knifeUrLsList)
{
for (int i = knifeUrL.Length - 1; i > 0; i--) //subtract 1 since array is 0 based
{
if (knifeUrL[i] == '/')
{
knifeNames.Add(knifeUrL.Substring(i + 1, knifeUrL.Length - i - 1) //Offset forwards by 1 since this is 1 based
.Replace("+", "-")); //the current knife name (E.G Navaja+Knife) which will be converted to navaja-knife
break;
}
}
}
Logger.Log("Fetching/extracting individual knife URLs from HTML...");
//Pull the link <a></a> tags out of each page - store them to be used later
var knifeUrLs = new List <string>();
int pageindex = 0;
foreach (string knifeUrL in masterKnifeUrLs)
{
string page = await HtmlFetcher.RetrieveFromUrl(knifeUrL);
//Getting knife name
// => /body/div[1]/div[2]/div[0]
// => col-lg-12 text-center col-widen content-header => h1
HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument();
doc.LoadHtml(page);
var aTags =
doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("/html/body//a"); //Select the body before looking for all the a tags
//Filter the A-Tags to only ones with href
var aTagHrefs = new List <string>();
foreach (var aTag in aTags)
{
string hrefVal = "";
if (aTag.Attributes["href"] != null)
{
hrefVal = aTag.Attributes["href"].Value; //Try to extract href val
}
if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(hrefVal))
{
aTagHrefs.Add(hrefVal); //Log the https links for further processing
}
}
//Process the aTag hrefs to only those which are valid links
aTagHrefs = aTagHrefs.Where(t => t.Contains("http") && t.Contains("/skin/") &&
t.Contains(knifeNames[pageindex])).ToList(); //Only websites && only paths containing skin && has knife name
//Delete duplicates
aTagHrefs = aTagHrefs.Distinct().ToList();
aTagHrefs.ForEach(t => knifeUrLs.Add(t)); //add to master url list
pageindex++;
}
//Follow links pulled above to get the names of the actual knives
Logger.Log("Fetching/extracting individual knife HTML...");
var knifeCaseData = new Dictionary <string, List <string> >();
foreach (string knifeUrL in knifeUrLs)
{
string page = await HtmlFetcher.RetrieveFromUrl(knifeUrL);
HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument();
doc.LoadHtml(page);
//Extracting case data
List <string> knifeCases = doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("html/body//p")
.Where(n => n.HasClass("collection-text-label")).Select(n => n.InnerHtml)
.ToList(); //Search for p with class "collection-text-label"
//Get knife name
string knifeName = doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("html/head/title").Select(n => n.InnerHtml)
.FirstOrDefault();
knifeName = knifeName?.Replace(" - CS:GO Stash", ""); //Null prorogation
if (knifeName != null)
{
//Add to dictionary
knifeCaseData.Add(knifeName, knifeCases);
}
}
return(knifeCaseData);
}
/// <summary>
/// Parses through the block structure for item data and case name+collection
/// </summary>
/// <param name="caseUrLs"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
private static async Task <Dictionary <string, DataCollection> > ParseGridBlocks(IEnumerable <string> caseUrLs)
{
var csgoData = new Dictionary <string, DataCollection>();
foreach (string caseUrL in caseUrLs)
{
string page = await HtmlFetcher.RetrieveFromUrl(caseUrL);
//Get case name and collection
HtmlDocument htmlDoc = new HtmlDocument();
htmlDoc.LoadHtml(page);
//Get the data out of the <a3> tags
HtmlNode caseNodeData =
htmlDoc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode(
"//div[@class='inline-middle collapsed-top-margin']"); //inline-middle collapsed-top-margin
string caseName = ExtractStringFromTags(caseNodeData, "h1");
string caseCollection = ExtractStringFromTags(caseNodeData, "h4"); //img-responsive center-block content-header-img-margin
string iconUrL = ExtractImgSrc(htmlDoc, "img-responsive center-block content-header-img-margin");
var caseData = new DataCollection {
Name = caseName, CaseCollection = caseCollection, IconUrL = iconUrL
};
//If case name already exists, pass
if (csgoData.ContainsKey(caseName))
{
continue;
}
//Separate single string with line breaks into array
string[] lines = page.Split(
new[] { "\r\n", "\r", "\n" },
StringSplitOptions.None
);
//Filter to lines containing " | "
List <string> fLines = lines.Where(l => l.Contains(" | ")).ToList();
//Select the text out of the html
foreach (var dataDuoLines in fLines) //The 2 lines containing the item name and collection
{
HtmlDocument duoHtml = new HtmlDocument();
duoHtml.LoadHtml(dataDuoLines);
//Get the data out of the <a3> tags
HtmlNodeCollection duoLineDataNodes = duoHtml.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("/h3/a");
if (duoLineDataNodes != null && duoLineDataNodes.Any())
{
List <string> duoLineData = duoLineDataNodes.Select(i => i.InnerHtml).ToList();
//Concat into item name
if (duoLineData.Any())
{
caseData.Items.Add(string.Join(" | ", duoLineData)); //Weapon name | skin name
}
}
}
if (!csgoData.TryGetValue(caseName, out _))
{
csgoData.Add(caseName, caseData);
}
}
return(csgoData);
}
