I'm working on a C# application that needs to scrape some data from a phpBB forum. The forum scraping requires logging in. The application will prompt the user for their login credentials to connect.
I've scraped websites before with C#, but what I'm not sure how to do is login to phpBB and keep a session open during the duration of the screen scraping. I've done some searching and haven't had much luck. Is there a good way to programmatically do something like this?
You don't say what you've tried, but if you used an HttpWebRequest object to retrieve pages and/or logon, then you need to assign a new CookieContainer collection to the HttpWebRequest to store any cookies returned by the website. Share this amongst HttpWebRequest objects to remain logged in