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ByteScout Cloud API Server – PDF Information API – C# – Get PDF Info From URL

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How to get PDF info from URL for PDF information API in C# and ByteScout Cloud API Server

Step-by-step tutorial:How to get PDF info from URL to have PDF information API in C#

These source code samples are listed and grouped by their programming language and functions they use. ByteScout Cloud API Server helps with PDF information API in C#. ByteScout Cloud API Server is API server that is ready to use and can be installed and deployed in less than 30 minutes on your own Windows server or server in a cloud. It can save data and files on your local server-based file storage or in Amazon AWS S3 storage. Data is processed solely on the API server and is powered by ByteScout engine, no cloud services or Internet connection is required for data processing..

Use the code displayed below in your application to save a lot of time on writing and testing code. Open your C# project and simply copy & paste the code and then run your app! Further improvement of the code will make it more robust.

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Program.cs
      
using System; using System.IO; using System.Net; using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq; // Please NOTE: In this sample we're assuming Cloud Api Server is hosted at "https://localhost". // If it's not then please replace this with with your hosting url. namespace ByteScoutWebApiExample { class Program { // Direct URL of PDF file to get information const string SourceFileURL = "https://bytescout-com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/pdf-info/sample.pdf"; static void Main(string[] args) { // Create standard .NET web client instance WebClient webClient = new WebClient(); // Prepare URL for `PDF Info` API call string query = Uri.EscapeUriString(string.Format( "https://localhost/pdf/info?url={0}", SourceFileURL)); try { // Execute request string response = webClient.DownloadString(query); // Parse JSON response JObject json = JObject.Parse(response); if (json["error"].ToObject<bool>() == false) { // Display PDF document information foreach (JToken token in json["info"]) { JProperty property = (JProperty) token; Console.WriteLine("{0}: {1}", property.Name, property.Value); } } else { Console.WriteLine(json["message"].ToString()); } } catch (WebException e) { Console.WriteLine(e.ToString()); } webClient.Dispose(); Console.WriteLine(); Console.WriteLine("Press any key..."); Console.ReadKey(); } } }

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packages.config
      
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <packages> <package id="Newtonsoft.Json" version="10.0.3" targetFramework="net40" /> </packages>

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