using System;

using System.Net;

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public class Program

{

    public static void Main()

    {

        // variables

        string Url = "https://mysafeinfo.com/api/data?list=states&format=json&alias=nm=name,ab=code,cp=capital,yr=year&select=capital&ab=GU";

        // DownloadString (no encoding specified)

        using (WebClient client = new WebClient())

        {

            Console.WriteLine(client.DownloadString(Url));

        }

        // DownloadString (encoding specified)

        using (WebClient client = new WebClient())

        {

            // specify encoding

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

            // output

            Console.WriteLine(client.DownloadString(Url));

        }

        // DownloadData (encoding specified)

        using (WebClient client = new WebClient())

        {

            Console.WriteLine(System.Text.UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetString(client.DownloadData(Url)));

        }

    }

}