using System;

using System.Net;

using System.Collections.Generic;

​

public class Program

{

    public static void Main()

    {

        // variables

        string Result = string.Empty;

        string Url = "https://mysafeinfo.com/api/data?list=states&format=json&case=lower&alias=statename=name,abbreviation=code,statehood=year&exclude=id&token=test";

        List<State> States = new List<State>();

        // request

        using (WebClient client = new WebClient())

        {

            // specify encoding

            client.Encoding = System.Text.UTF8Encoding.UTF8;

            // download data

            Result = client.DownloadString(Url);

        }

​

        // use Json.NET (Newtonsoft.Json) to deserialize json string into a strongly typed list of states

        // https://www.nuget.org/packages/Newtonsoft.Json

        States = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<State>>(Result);

        // iterate states collection

        foreach (State s in States)

        {

            Console.WriteLine(string.Format("{0}, {1}, {2}, {3}", s.name, s.code, s.capital, s.year));

        }

    }

}

​

// state class

public class State

{

    public string name = string.Empty;

    public string code = string.Empty;

    public string capital = string.Empty;

    public string year = string.Empty;

}