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...Its main applications are web crawling, downloads, scraping, and extraction of main texts, metadata and comments. It aims at staying handy and modular: no database is required, the output can be converted to various commonly used formats. Going from raw HTML to essential parts can alleviate many problems related to text quality, first by avoiding the noise caused by recurring elements (headers, footers, links/blogroll etc.) and second by including information such as author and date in order to make sense of the data. The extractor tries to strike a balance between limiting noise (precision) and including all valid parts (recall). ...

Abot is an open source C# web crawler framework designed to help developers efficiently crawl and process web content. It focuses on speed, flexibility, and extensibility while handling the complex low-level tasks involved in web crawling. It manages essential components such as multithreading, HTTP requests, scheduling, and link parsing so developers can focus on processing the collected data. Abot follows a modular architecture that allows developers to customize nearly every stage of the crawl process by implementing or replacing core interfaces. Abot exposes an event-driven model that enables applications to react to crawling events such as page completion or crawl restrictions. ...