extract a web page to excel

Question

I found many ajax plug-in to add button for extracting web page or table to excel but the web page I want to extract is not mine so I don't have an access to add the plugin.

the process will be started by just running an exe file that I will be doing and the application will access the URL of the web page and then save the extracted excel file.. so the exe will be running from time to time to execute the process without the help of anyone.

I don't have any idea on what should I research so I'm asking for your suggestion for the technology that I should use.

My supervisor asked me to do the exe on C#

Thanks in advance guys.

Answer 1

if you can code in C# you can use the HTML agility pack to extract almost anything from a webpage you can then convert that to a datatable of sorts in c# and populate an excel spreadsheet quite easily there are plenty of examples on the agility pack see this thread How to use HTML Agility pack