public ActionResult WwuNews()
{
//if (regExPattern == null)
// ViewBag.pattern = "(?<=mailto:).*?.edu";
//else
// ViewBag.pattern = regExPattern;
//if (viewHtml != null)
// ViewBag.viewHtml = "checked";
//if (targetUrl == null)
//{
// ViewBag.targetUrl = "https://cbe.wwu.edu/faculty-staff";
// return View();
//}
//ViewBag.targetUrl = targetUrl;
// hard coded variables
string targetUrl = "https://westerntoday.wwu.edu/news";
string regExPattern = "<h2 class=\"field-content helper-clear-float\"><a href=\"/news.*?</h2>";
//scrape data
string html = ScreenScrape.GetHTML(targetUrl);
//if (viewHtml != null)
//{
// ViewBag.results = html;
// return View();
//}
//use regular expressions to parse out interesting bits
Regex objRegEx = new Regex(regExPattern, (RegexOptions.Singleline | RegexOptions.IgnoreCase));
MatchCollection objMatchCollection;
//stringBuilder class is for efficient string concatenation
StringBuilder results = new StringBuilder();
objMatchCollection = objRegEx.Matches(html);
ViewBag.count = objMatchCollection.Count + " matches.";
foreach (Match objMatch in objMatchCollection)
{
//add a break & carriage return at end of each match
string match = objMatch.Value + "<br>\n";
//May need to clean up results using .Replace() or regular expressions:
match = Regex.Replace(match, "/news", targetUrl, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
//Regular expressions may use look ahead "?=" and look behind "?<="
//to specify text that is part of the search but not returned
//as part of the match.
results.Append(match);
}
ViewBag.results = results.ToString();
return(View());
}
public ActionResult Index(string targetUrl, string regExPattern, string viewHtml)
{
if (regExPattern == null)
{
ViewBag.pattern = "(?<=mailto:).*?.edu";
}
else
{
ViewBag.pattern = regExPattern;
}
if (viewHtml != null)
{
ViewBag.viewHtml = "checked";
}
if (targetUrl == null)
{
ViewBag.targetUrl = "https://cbe.wwu.edu/faculty-staff";
return(View());
}
ViewBag.targetUrl = targetUrl;
//scrape data
string html = ScreenScrape.GetHTML(targetUrl);
if (viewHtml != null)
{
ViewBag.results = html;
return(View());
}
//use regular expressions to parse out interesting bits
Regex objRegEx = new Regex(regExPattern, (RegexOptions.Singleline | RegexOptions.IgnoreCase));
MatchCollection objMatchCollection;
//stringBuilder class is for efficient string concatenation
StringBuilder results = new StringBuilder();
objMatchCollection = objRegEx.Matches(html);
ViewBag.count = objMatchCollection.Count + " matches.";
foreach (Match objMatch in objMatchCollection)
{
//add a break & carriage return at end of each match
string match = objMatch.Value + "<br>\n";
//May need to clean up results using .Replace() or regular expressions:
//match = Regex.Replace(match, "some text", "", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
//Regular expressions may use look ahead "?=" and look behind "?<="
//to specify text that is part of the search but not returned
//as part of the match.
results.Append(match);
}
ViewBag.results = results.ToString();
return(View());
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string eventUrl = @"http://www.seetickets.com/browse/tours";
Console.WriteLine("Enter the Event Name:");
string eventName = Console.ReadLine(); //"Martin Simpson";// "Martin Simpson"; // "Eat You Alive Festival";
var xmlOutput = new ScreenScrape(eventUrl, eventName, ScreenScrape.OutputTypes.xml);
xmlOutput.GetEvent();
//var jsonOutput = new ScreenScrape(eventUrl, eventName, ScreenScrape.OutputTypes.json);
//jsonOutput.GetEvent();
Console.ReadLine();
}
