I needed to add a button in my ASP.NET Core MVC web application that on-click would start a method that would return a list of items scraped from another website.

Something like this:

Start Scrape

The code I got to work for doing so is:

<button type="button" id="startButton" 
    onclick="location.href='@Url.Action('List', 'ArbitrageScraper')'">
    Start  Scrape
</button>

This code resides inside of the View for your controller. My button …