Login to a third party website and download a file

Hello Everybody,

I have subscription to a website where I can login and download files. These files are secured so I cannot download them with a direct link.

Is there any way that I login programmatically and download files from http to my server without any user involvement? They do not offer any API or interface to communicate with.

Thanks.

The links are presumably generated on demand. You could use a WebClient or HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse objects to login and get the data that would normally be sent to a web browser and then extract the link from that data. You should start by looking for examples that use those classes to get a feel for how they work and then look at using them in your specific situation.

But I have subscription-based login information not the http login information. Let me try if it will work with WebClient but I think it won't. Right now when I try to fetch say http://www.xyz.com/file.csv it gives me html of the login page instead of the csv file. I think this is the expected behaviour.