Scrape data from WebSocket with C# .Net

Question

I need to scrape data from a websocket "just one time".

I mean that I don't need to get continuosly data from the source but I need to get the data one time and exit from the elaboration.

I don't need Async task, I just need to use it like a simple API.

I'm struggling with web search but I didn't find any solution.

Thanks to support

Answer 1

I think your are struggling to find such code as websocket is almost a bi-directional protocol, not really for a RPC style. But to answer your need, you could certainly use a library such as websocket-sharp . Your code to send a command text and receive back a return message would look like this :

using System;
using WebSocketSharp;

namespace Example
{
  public class Program
  {
    public static void Main (string[] args)
    {
      using (var ws = new WebSocket ("ws://YOUR_URI_HERE")) {
        ws.OnMessage += (sender, e) =>
            Console.WriteLine ("It's ok I got my answer back : " + e.Data);

        ws.Connect ();
        ws.Send ("COMMAND FOR THE SERVER");
        Console.ReadKey (true);
      }
    }
  }
}

Hope that code will help you to get started.