PNR Status by web Scraping Method (ASP.NET) C#

To Get the PNR Status by web Scraping Method

Steps to Execute the Function

Step 1 : Add the below method in your Form and Pass the PNR Number arguement

public string GetPNRStatus(string sPNR)

{

string URI = "http://www.indianrail.gov.in/cgi_bin/inet_pnrstat_cgi.cgi";

string Parameters = Uri.EscapeUriString("lccp_pnrno1="+sPNR+"&submitpnr=Get Status");

System.Net.HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)System.Net.WebRequest.Create(URI);

//HTTP POST Headers

req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";

req.Host = "www.indianrail.gov.in";

//You can use your own user-agent.

req.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows Phone OS 7.5; Trident/5.0; IEMobile/9.0) DELL;Venue Pro";

req.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.AcceptLanguage, "en-us,en;q=0.5");

req.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.AcceptCharset, "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7");

req.KeepAlive = true;

req.Referer = "http://www.indianrail.gov.in/pnr_stat.html";

req.Accept = "text/plain";

req.Method = "POST";

//Byte size calculation before sending request.

byte[] bytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(Parameters);

req.ContentLength = bytes.Length;

System.IO.Stream os = req.GetRequestStream();

os.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);

os.Close();

System.Net.WebResponse resp = req.GetResponse();

if (resp == null) return null;

System.IO.StreamReader sr = new System.IO.StreamReader(resp.GetResponseStream());

return sr.ReadToEnd();

}

Step 2 : on Page load is not Postback Method write the below Statement

if (!IsPostBack)

{

string PNR= Request.QueryString["pnr"];

Response.Write(GetPNRStatus(PNR));

}

to Know the PNR Status Your URL like below

Ex : http://localhost/yourwebsite/yourform.aspx?pnr=0123456789

Note: This method involves scraping the Indian Railways website, as they do not have an API in place yet. This is purely for educative purposes, and is most likely illegal to implement in a full-feature application.