C# Application help (Reading lines from txt files and importing them to the app)

[J5ck]

Hello, I am currently in the process of making a bot that signs up for instagram.com and follows the users specified account name.

 

 

 

But, I need the application to connect to proxies that the user has given them.

So what I mean is, the user loads a proxies.txt file and now I need the application to read the first line of the proxies.txt file and use the proxy

Then use the second line, third line and so on.

 

Sorry if you don't understand what I mean or this is stupid af

 

Thanks for reading.

 

 

[sunjester]

you just need to read it into an array and loop the array.

string[] proxy_list = File.ReadLines("proxies.txt").ToArray();

so let's hope the proxies.txt isn't huge or you would probably need an ienumerable

Edited by sunjester, 11 March 2019 - 09:16 PM.

[Nippler]

Why coding when there's bunch of python scripts that will prob work better then your shitty c# app.. look for InstaPy on github.

[J5ck]

Why coding when there's bunch of python scripts that will prob work better then your shitty c# app.. look for InstaPy on github.

Because I like to learn.

I don't want to leech other peoples work

you just need to read it into an array and loop the array.

string[] proxy_list = File.ReadLines("proxies.txt").ToArray();

so let's hope the proxies.txt isn't huge or you would probably need an ienumerable

Thank you very much :-)

[Psy]

Because I like to learn.

I don't want to leech other peoples work

Thank you very much :-)

 

String arrays are fine, but Lists are better in my opinion, just to use out of habit. If you want to load proxies AND use them in a web request you would do so like this:

//Create a string list and store all lines as list item. Lists expand dynamically.
List<string> proxies = File.ReadAllLines(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "proxies.txt");

//If you want to iterate through any form of array you use for or foreach. In this situation either would work fine. For example:
for (int i = 0; i < proxies.Count; i++)
{
    //This just outputs the index of value equal to i which is 0,1,2,3,etc every loop
    Console.WriteLine(proxies[i]);
}
//Or you can use foreach
foreach (string proxy in proxies)
{
    Console.WriteLine(proxy);
}

//If you want to make a webrequest with a proxy you can use any request function you prefer, I use WebClient:
//Obviously you'll need to wrap it in a for/foreach loop to iterate through proxies
foreach (string proxy in proxies)
{
    Webclient wc = new WebClient();
    WebProxy myProxy = new WebProxy(proxy)
    wc.Proxy = myProxy;
}