Spidey VS Infinity Crawler

Compare Spidey vs Infinity Crawler and see what are their differences.

Spidey

A multi threaded web crawler library that is generic enough to allow different engines to be swapped in. (by JaCraig)

Infinity Crawler

A simple but powerful web crawler library for .NET (by TurnerSoftware)
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Spidey Infinity Crawler
2 -
11 238
- 2.5%
9.5 5.0
11 days ago 4 months ago
C# C#
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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Spidey

Posts with mentions or reviews of Spidey. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-20.
  • I need data from a website. It is viable to create an API that scrapes the website and returns the data on an endpoint?
    2 projects | /r/dotnet | 20 Dec 2022
    Didn't get a chance to reply earlier but depending on what you're trying to do, you might want a web crawler. I have a crawler on Github that I built for scraping in instances where someone doesn't have an API. If you go this route, I suggest doing it as a background task and go off cached data.
  • Recursion needed in small crawler
    1 project | /r/csharp | 15 May 2021
    This may be overkill but I have library out there for building web crawlers. Spidey is the library. I'm not suggesting you use it but you could look at it for ideas. It uses a multithreaded, producer/consumer approach that avoids recursion and stack overflow issues. Use a queue, pull from the queue for each url, push new urls on when you find them. Do need to optimize my code a bit more but if it helps at all. But your issue is most likely the fact that you're finding a link to the page you are currently on. HashSet or List of found URLs would solve the issue.

Infinity Crawler

Posts with mentions or reviews of Infinity Crawler. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Spidey and Infinity Crawler you can also consider the following projects:

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Sieve - ⚗️ Clean & extensible Sorting, Filtering, and Pagination for ASP.NET Core

SharpNetSH - A simple netsh library for C#

Fluent Command Line Parser - A simple, strongly typed .NET C# command line parser library using a fluent easy to use interface

Colorful.Console - Style your .NET console output!

CodeHub - CodeHub is an iOS application written using Xamarin

OctoLinker - OctoLinker — Links together, what belongs together

CsConsoleFormat - .NET C# library for advanced formatting of console output [Apache]

Netling - Netling is a load tester client for easy web testing.

Open Live Writer - An open source fork of Windows Live Writer