Access login protected page with C#

Question

I need to make a script to capture links from a page, it happens that this page is protected by login, I have this login but I do not know how to make a request to access this protected page. It would be something like that:

• View page (https://nome-da-página)
• Login using email and password (In this part I’m having difficulties, I have this email and password, but I’m not using it)
• Link capture

Answer 1

If you are going to request via C#, then one of the minimalist ways to do this is with the class System.Net.Webclient.

You can authenticate using the properties Credentials and UseDefaultCredentials.

Example:

WebClient foo = new WebClient();
foo.UseDefaultCredentials = true;
foo.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("John Doe", "123456");

Then you download the content like this:

string endereco = "https://nome-da-página/LinksQueVouRoubar";
string resposta = foo.DownloadString(endereco);

A string resposta will contain all the HTML of the result. Now just scan.