Programmatically reading HTML from any URL

Well, had to put together a quick app today that reads the content of a status web page and send alerts if any errors. There are no services or api’s for me to call to get the status; hence without much thinking went ahead to read the html from the web page and parse through… so had to read html from the url. Here is how I got it done:

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(url);

using (Stream stream = request.GetResponse().GetResponseStream())

{

using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream))

{

string response = reader.ReadToEnd();

return response;

}

}

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