Html Agility Pack (HAP)

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 // From File var doc = new HtmlDocument(); doc.Load(filePath); // From String var doc = new HtmlDocument(); doc.LoadHtml(html); // From Web var url = "http://html-agility-pack.net/"; var web = new HtmlWeb(); var doc = web.Load(url);

What's Html Agility Pack?

What's Html Agility Pack?

HAP is an HTML parser written in C# to read/write DOM and supports plain XPATH or XSLT.
What's web scraping in C#?

What's web scraping in C#?

Web scraping is a technique used in any language such as C# to extract data from a website.
Is web scraping legal?

Is web scraping legal?

That's a gray zone! There is no official answer about it, and almost every company has some web scraping program. In short, do polite crawling and don't spam a website and everything will be fine.
When is the v2.x coming?

When is the v2.x coming?

There is no official date, but the work is in progress. A lot of improvement is already planned to make web scraping even easier!
Which 3rd party libraries?

Which 3rd party libraries?

You can enhance HAP with some third party libraries:
Where can I find Html Agility Pack examples?

Where can I find Html Agility Pack examples?

Online examples are now available!

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HTML Parser

Load and parse HTML

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HAP - Parser Example
 // From File var doc = new HtmlDocument(); doc.Load(filePath); // From String var doc = new HtmlDocument(); doc.LoadHtml(html); // From Web var url = "http://html-agility-pack.net/"; var web = new HtmlWeb(); var doc = web.Load(url);

HTML Selectors

Select HtmlNode, Element, and Attributes:

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HAP - Selectors Examples
 // With XPath var value = doc.DocumentNode .SelectNodes("//td/input") .First() .Attributes["value"].Value; // With LINQ var nodes = doc.DocumentNode.Descendants("input") .Select(y => y.Descendants() .Where(x => x.Attributes["class"].Value == "box")) .ToList();

HTML Manipulation

Manipulate HtmlNode, Element, and Attributes:

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HAP - Manipulation Example
 var doc = new HtmlDocument(); doc.LoadHtml(html); // InnerHtml var innerHtml = doc.DocumentNode.InnerHtml; // InnerText var innerText = doc.DocumentNode.InnerText;

HTML Traversing

Traverse HtmlNode, Element, and Attributes:

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HAP - Traversing Example
 var doc = new HtmlDocument(); htmlDoc.LoadHtml(html); // Descendants var nodes = doc.DocumentNode.Descendants("input");