How to get a JSON string from URL?

Use the WebClient class in System.Net:

var json = new WebClient().DownloadString("url");

Keep in mind that WebClient is IDisposable, so you would probably add a using statement to this in production code. This would look like:

using (WebClient wc = new WebClient()){   var json = wc.DownloadString("url");}

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AFAIK JSON.Net does not provide functionality for reading from a URL. So you need to do this in two steps:

using (var webClient = new System.Net.WebClient()) {    var json = webClient.DownloadString(URL);    // Now parse with JSON.Net}

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If you're using .NET 4.5 and want to use async then you can use HttpClient in System.Net.Http:

using (var httpClient = new HttpClient()){    var json = await httpClient.GetStringAsync("url");    // Now parse with JSON.Net}

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