[C#] Web events

[Chaosy]

Hello, I currently try to figure out a way to detect "events" that happen on a website. To do that I thought it would be easier if I coded my own browser which I have done now. Since logically I should have more controll of what happens inside the browser.

So now that I am in my own browser, am I able to detect when I press the submit new thread button for example? Or rather, can you show me how?

 

[GhostWolf]

...what? You made a browser?

 

[Chaosy]

Yup, here I am.

 

[GhostWolf]

Oh, I assume C# has an HTML rendering engine.

What exactly are you talking about though?
What does "detect events that happen on a website" mean?
If you mean that you have a server and you want to respond to requests (or spy on your clients), then XMLHttpRequest (aka AJAX) or WebSockets are your tools, and in this case it has nothing to do with C# (beside getting a WebSocket server).

 

[Chaosy]

As I said I want to detect when something happens on a (any) website. (aka events)

As a test example, when a post/thread is created. To clearify, when a event happens locally, with other words if I post something while the program is running the program should notice that somehow.

Am I more clear now?

 

[GhostWolf]

You can make a GreaseMonkey script (or any other add-on that allows you to inject JavaScript code to pages), and add event listeners to all the event types.
This still has nothing to do with C# though.

Can you say what you're trying to do? Maybe I'll have something more useful to suggest. Right now I don't really understand your question.

 

[Chaosy]

Well I thought it was do-able with C# that's why I put the "[C#]" tag, to make sure someoen didn't come with java or whatever language they happen to use.

I will just see if I can make a google chrome addon and see if I can manage that, thanks for your help.

 

[GhostWolf]

C# isn't relevant to the World Wide Web in any way, so why would you be able to do anything with it?
Like I said, you can check out GreaseMonkey or other similar JavaScript injection add-ons, that should make your job as easy as making a small JS file which registers event listeners.

 

[Chaosy]

since you got Webclient to download info from the web it kinda makes sense to me. I understand what you mean and I assume that you're right. I just wanted to clearify myself with this post.

 

[deathismyfriend]

This may help. This shows how to get the control changes uses HTML in C#. I believe this is what you are looking for.

http://devproconnections.com/aspnet/detect-control-changes

Another way I have notices is checking the script of the page every so often to see if it has changed.

 

[GhostWolf]

That's for when you are running the server and making the website, which isn't what he asked.