How to fully validate a URL in C# .NET Framework

URL validation is there to save the day when dealing with potential broken links or even malicious site submissions. Today we will be implementing just such a system, but we will be breaking all kinds of records because it’s only going to take 5 minutes. You read correctly. Now continue reading to get to those juicy results ASAP.

We will first need to grab our package from NuGet.

Install-Package Cloudmersive.APIClient.NET.Validate -Version 3.0.6

Now it’s time to call our function as you see right here:

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using Cloudmersive.APIClient.NET.Validate.Api;
using Cloudmersive.APIClient.NET.Validate.Client;
using Cloudmersive.APIClient.NET.Validate.Model;
namespace Example
{
public class DomainUrlFullExample
{
public void main()
{
// Configure API key authorization: Apikey
Configuration.Default.AddApiKey("Apikey", "YOUR_API_KEY");
// Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
// Configuration.Default.AddApiKeyPrefix("Apikey", "Bearer");
var apiInstance = new DomainApi();
var request = new ValidateUrlRequestFull(); // ValidateUrlRequestFull | Input URL request
try
{
// Validate a URL fully
ValidateUrlResponseFull result = apiInstance.DomainUrlFull(request);
Debug.WriteLine(result);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Debug.Print("Exception when calling DomainApi.DomainUrlFull: " + e.Message );
}
}
}
}

Enter in the URL and it will be checked syntactically, the server queried, and a virus scan will be performed on the target page. Easy.