Get string data Xpath

Question

I need help to get data from the site. I use geckofx in my application. I want it to retrieve text data from the xpath location after loading the page

XPathResult xpathResult = geckoWebBrowser1.Document.EvaluateXPath("/html/body/table[3]/tbody/tr[1]/td[2]/a[1]");
IEnumerable<GeckoNode> foundNodes = xpathResult.GetNodes();

How to download data as text?

Answer 1

It looks like you are struggling to retrieve the text from the GeckoFX objects.
Here are a few calls and operations that should get you started:

//get by XPath
XPathResult xpathResult = _browser.Document.EvaluateXPath("//*[@id]/div/p[2]");
var foundNodes = xpathResult.GetNodes();
foreach (var node in foundNodes)
{
    var x = node.TextContent; // get text text contained by this node (including children)
    GeckoHtmlElement element = node as GeckoHtmlElement; //cast to access.. inner/outerHtml
    string inner = element.InnerHtml;
    string outer = element.OuterHtml;
    //iterate child nodes
    foreach (var child in node.ChildNodes)
    {

    }
}
//get by id
GeckoHtmlElement htmlElementById = _browser.Document.GetHtmlElementById("mw-content-text");
//get by tag
GeckoElementCollection byTag = _browser.Document.GetElementsByTagName("input");
foreach (var ele in byTag)
{
    var y = ele.GetAttribute("value");

}
//get by class
var byClass = _browser.Document.GetElementsByClassName("input");
foreach (var node in byClass)
{
    //...
}

//cast to a different object
var username = ((GeckoInputElement)_browser.Document.GetHtmlElementById("yourUsername")).Value;
//create new object from DomObject
var button = new GeckoButtonElement(_browser.Document.GetElementById("myBtn").DomObject);