IronWebScraper 2023.11.9

Iron WebScraper - The C# WebScraping Library

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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 WebScraper can be used to migrate content from existing websites as well as build search indexes and monitor website structure & content changes.

Iron WebScraper allows developers to:

• 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.

Iron WebScraper has cross platform support compatibility with:

• .NET 6 and .NET 5, .NET Core, Standard, and Framework
• Windows, macOS, Linux, Docker, Azure, and AWS

Additionally, our API reference and full licensing information can easily be found on our website.

Using Iron WebScraper

Installing the IronWebScraper NuGet package is quick and easy, please install the package like this:

PM> Install-Package IronWebScraper

Once installed, you can get started by adding using IronWebScraper to the top of your C# code. Here is an example to get started:

using IronWebScraper;

namespace YourApp
{
    public class Program
    {
        private static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var ScrapeJob = new BlogScraper();
            ScrapeJob.Start();
        }
    }

    public class BlogScraper : WebScraper
    {
        public override void Init()
        {
            LoggingLevel = LogLevel.All;
            Request("https://www.zyte.com/blog/", Parse);
        }

        public override void Parse(Response response)
        {
            foreach (HtmlNode title_link in response.Css(".oxy-post-title"))
            {
                string strTitle = title_link.TextContentClean;
                Scrape(new ScrapedData() { { "Title", strTitle } });
            }

            if (response.CssExists("div.oxy-easy-posts-pages > a[href]"))
            {
                string next_page = response.Css("div.oxy-easy-posts-pages > a[href]")[0].Attributes["href"];
                Request(next_page, Parse);
            }
        }
    }
}

Licensing & Support available

For code examples, tutorials and documentation visit https://ironsoftware.com/csharp/webscraper/

For support please email us at developers@ironsoftware.com

Documentation Links

• Code Examples : https://ironsoftware.com/csharp/webscraper/examples/c-sharp-web-scraper/
• API Reference : https://ironsoftware.com/csharp/webscraper/object-reference/api/
• Tutorials : https://ironsoftware.com/csharp/webscraper/tutorials/webscraping-in-c-sharp/
• Licensing : https://ironsoftware.com/csharp/webscraper/licensing/
• Live Chat Support : https://ironsoftware.com/csharp/webscraper/#helpscout-support

You can email us at developers@ironsoftware.com for support directly from our code team. We offer licensing and extensive support for commercial deployment projects.