How to get json response using system net webrequest in c

Question

I need to get json data from an external domain  I used webrequest to get the response from a website  Here s the code   var request   WebRequest Create url   string text  var response    HttpWebResponse  request GetResponse     using  var sr   new StreamReader response GetResponseStream           text   sr ReadToEnd        Anyone know why I can t get the json data

User · Accepted Answer

You need to explicitly ask for the content type     Add this line    request ContentType    application json  charset utf-8  At the appropriate place

User · Answer

Some APIs want you to supply the appropriate  Accept  header in the request to get the wanted response type   For example if an API can return data in XML and JSON and you want the JSON result  you would need to set the HttpWebRequest Accept property to  application json    HttpWebRequest httpWebRequest    HttpWebRequest WebRequest Create requestUri   httpWebRequest Method   WebRequestMethods Http Get  httpWebRequest Accept    application json

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