IronWebScraper

v2025.1.1

Iron WebScraper is a C# web scraping library, allowing developers to simulate & automate human browsing behavior to extract content, files & images from web applications as native .NET objects. Iron Web Scraper manages politeness & multithreading in the background, leaving a developer’s own application easy to understand & maintain. Iron Web Scraper can be used to migrate content from existing websites as well as build search indexes and monitor website structure & content changes. It's functionality includes: » Read & extract structured content from web pages using html DOM, Javascript, Xpath, jQuery Style CSS Selectors. » Fast multi threading allows hundreds of simultaneous requests. » Politely avoid over stalling remote servers using IP/domain level throttling & optionally respecting robots.txt » Manage multiple identities, DNS, proxies, user agents, request methods, custom headers, cookies & logins. » Data exported from websites becomes native C# objects which can be stored or used immediately. » Exceptions managed in all but the developers own code. Errors and captchas auto retried on failure » Save, pause, resume, autosave scrape jobs. » Built in web cache allows for action replay, crash recovery, and querying existing web scrape data. Change scrape logic on the fly, then replay job without internet traffic. Supports: Framework .NET 4.6.2+, .NET Core 3.1+, .NET Standard 2.0+, .NET 5, .NET 6, .NET 7 and .NET 8 on Windows, Linux, macOS, Mobile, AWS and Azure Licensing & Support available for commercial deployments. For code examples, documentation & more visit http://ironsoftware.com/cshapr/webscraper. For support please email us at [email protected].