Save Page Source to a File

[Chris]

Hi,

I'm new to Telerik and want to do something fairly simple (I think). I want Telerik to bring up a page in the browser and then save the page source to a file. How to do that?

[Anthony]

Hello Chris,

First, be aware that you can set a Breakpoint and use the Capture feature from the Visual Debugger to save a snapshot of the DOM.

To automate this takes just a few lines of code:

string dom = ActiveBrowser.ViewSourceString;

System.IO.StreamWriter file = new System.IO.StreamWriter(@"C:\temp\dom.txt");
file.WriteLine(dom);
file.Close();

If you prefer Visual Basic use our code converter.

Greetings,
Anthony
the Telerik team

[Chris]

Thanks Anthony; this is very helpful.

How would I access the source from within an iframe on the page?

[Anthony]

Hello Chris,

The same way as before, but you must identify the frame first. See our Frames Support page for more information.

Here's an example against this W3 Schools demo site:

ArtOfTest.WebAii.Core.Browser frSub = ActiveBrowser.Frames["view"];
string dom = frSub.ViewSourceString;

System.IO.StreamWriter file = new System.IO.StreamWriter(@"C:\temp\dom.txt");
file.WriteLine(dom);
file.Close();

Regards,
Anthony
the Telerik team