Web Stripper

For my Scramble Cheater program, I needed to get a list of all possible words for a dictionary. I found a good website call Word Snipe, that listed all the words from the game, and orderd them by word length. This resulted in 105,000 words, spread out 50 at a time, on over 2000 pages. I didn't want to have to copy and past all these words by hand, so I created this program to strip them from the website. It took about 35 minutes for it to download all the words, but it was definetly a lot easier than doing it by hand.

Below is the code. Enjoy!

    public partial class Form1 : Form {
        public Form1() {
            InitializeComponent();
        }
        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {
            int value = 1;
            while (value <= 105351) {
                ParseResponse(GetResponse("http://wordsnipe.com/results.php?start=" + value + "&PHPSESSID=1af1f78a57145ebc9c14fd4441fcf077"));
                value += 50;

            }
        }

        private void ParseResponse(string htmlResponse) {
            int index = 0, endIndex;
            string startDiv = "<div class=\"result\">";
            int startDivLength = startDiv.Length;

            for (int i = 0; i < 50; i++) {
                index = htmlResponse.IndexOf(startDiv, index);
                index = htmlResponse.IndexOf(">", index + startDivLength) + 1;
                endIndex = htmlResponse.IndexOf("</a>", index);
                textBox1.AppendText(string.Format("AllWords.Add(\"{0}\");{1}", htmlResponse.Substring(index, endIndex - index), Environment.NewLine));
                index = endIndex;
            }
        }

        private string GetResponse(string urlAddress) {
            Uri uri = new Uri(urlAddress);
            HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(uri);
            request.Method = "GET";
            string result = string.Empty;
            using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse()) {
                using (Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream()) {
                    using (StreamReader readStream = new StreamReader(responseStream, Encoding.UTF8)) {
                        result = readStream.ReadToEnd();
                    }
                }
            }
            return result;
        }
    }

Beating Scramble On FaceBook

I was playing this Scramble game for Facebook over The Thanksgiving Holiday, and decided that I wanted to write a program to cheat at the game, and get high scores that would blow my friends out of the water. So did. I was able to score 1553 points, which is about 1400 points more than my nearest friend on Facebook. So much fun.
The Source Code and a more indepth description is on CodeProject. http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/WordScramble.aspx