Headless browser for C# (.NET)?
.net, automation, browser, c#, web-scraping
Solution
There are some options:
WebKit.Net (free)
Awesomium It is based on Chrome/WebKit and works like a charm. There is a free license available but also a commercial one and if need be you can buy the source code :-)
HTML Agility Pack (free) (An HTML Parser library, NOT a headless browser) This helps with extracting information from HTML etc. and might be useful in your case (possibly in combination with `HttpWebRequest`)
Problem
I am (was) a Python developer who is building a GUI web scraping application. Recently I've decided to migrate to .NET framework and write the same application in C# (this decision wasn't mine). In Python, I've used the Mechanize library. However, I can't seem to find anything similar in .NET. What I need is a browser that will run in a headless mode, which has the ability to fill out forms, submit them, etc. JavaScript parser is not a must, but it would be quite useful.