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how to extract the data from a website(www.shopzilla.com,www.shopping.com) in C#

hi...I am familier with C# programming language.I am a NewB in c# programming. I like to extract the data from a website( www.shopzilla.com,www.shopping.com )
and store it to my database running on my machine.Is that possible in c#.If so which API I should use.
for example, i want to fetch price and retailer name of any product and store it into my database using c#.net.
Can anyone tell me how to implement this in C#.net..thanks in advance - Priti

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Use a System.Net.WebClient. Call OpenRead() to get a stream.
Use string parsing to extract the data you want from the HTML.

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