Generic C# extension to retrieve data from web/api and convert then to an object

example.cs

//using id_token to get user_data information

string token_validation_url = @"https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v3/tokeninfo?id_token=";
var result = WebExtensions.GetResultFromWeb<TokenResult>(string.Concat(token_validation_url, id_token));

googleTokenResult.cs

public class TokenResult
{
    public string email { get; set; }
    public string email_verified { get; set; }
    public string name { get; set; }
    public string picture { get; set; }
    public string given_name { get; set; }
    public string family_name { get; set; }
    public string locale { get; set; }
}

WebExtensions.cs

public static class WebExtensions
{

    public static T GetResultFromWeb<T>(string url) where T : new()
    {
        using (var webClient = new WebClient())
        {
            var json_data = string.Empty;
            try
            {
                json_data = webClient.DownloadString(url);
            }
            catch (Exception) { }

            // if string with JSON data is not empty, deserialize it to class and return its instance 
            return !string.IsNullOrEmpty(json_data) ? JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<T>(json_data) : new T();
        }
    }
}