Getting Data from HTML Web Page Problem

Question

Hi all,

 

I'm just learning C# at the moment and I'm playing with extracting data from webpages using Regex.

Im having problems getting data out of an unordered list. This is the HTML:

 

<ul class="ad-footer-info">

<li>Ad ref <span class="ad-id">1069691339</span></li>

<li>Posted 13 hours ago</li>

<li>Posting ads since June 2014</li></ul>

 

I'm trying to get the data that says "posted 13 hours ago" but I cant get it to work. (I'll post my attempt below)

Any help would be very much appreciated.

 

Many Thanks and Kind Regards,

James Webb

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My Code:

 

public void GetDateAdded()

{

string UserURL = textBox1.Text;

WebClient MyWebClient = new WebClient();

String HTMLString = MyWebClient.DownloadString(UserURL);

MatchCollection MatchedDates = Regex.Matches(HTMLString, "<ul class=\"ad-footer-info\">\\s*(.+?)\\s*</ul>", RegexOptions.Singleline);

}