# sjdirect/abot

Cross Platform C# web crawler framework built for speed and flexibility. Please star this project! +1.

Repository: https://github.com/sjdirect/abot
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/abot
Language: C#
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: c-sharp, abot, abot-nuget, crawler, web-crawler, parsing, spider, spiders, pluggable, unit-testing, csharp, netcore, netcore2, netcore3, netsta, netstandard20, netstandard21, csharp-library, javascript-renderer, cross-platform
Last push: 2026-07-17T21:20:00+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 74/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 93, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4774, "days_push": 47, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2310, forks 546 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:36.031921+00:00)

## What it is
Abot is an open source C# web crawler framework built for speed and flexibility, handling multithreading, HTTP requests, scheduling, and link parsing. It exposes a pluggable architecture where users register for events or swap in custom implementations to control the crawl process.

## Use cases
- crawl a website and extract page data in C#
- build a custom web spider with pluggable crawl rules
- scrape links and page content from many pages quickly
- write a multithreaded crawler without managing HTTP plumbing
- parse links from HTML pages in .NET

## When to choose
- you need a fast, lightweight .NET crawler with no external dependencies
- you want full control over crawl behavior via pluggable interfaces
- you need cross-platform support via .NET Standard 2.0

## When to avoid
- you need JavaScript rendering or anti-blocking features out of the box (use AbotX or other tools)
- you want a turnkey scraping solution with no coding
- your project is not on the .NET platform

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, parser, concurrency, http-client
- domain: crawlers, web-development, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform, dotnet, windows
- tags: c-sharp, web-crawler, spider, pluggable-architecture, netstandard, nuget, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- sjdirect/abot (main) score 74

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:36.031921+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:39:34.461603+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/sjdirect/abot (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:36.031921+00:00, sha f8735c6268e4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.