BlackWidow is a .NET library based on SharpGrabber. Rather than relying on .NET assemblies, BlackWidow executes scripts written specifically for grabbing.
BlackWidow gives you the following advantages over the traditional NuGet package approach:
- Always Up-to-date: The scripts are always kept up-to-date at runtime; so the functionality of the host application won't break as the sources change - at least not for long!
- ECMAScript Support: Supports JavaScript/ECMAScript out of the box.
- Easy Maintenance: JavaScript is quick to code and welcomes many developers. This helps contributors to quickly write new grabbers or fix the existing ones.
- Secure: The scripts are executed in a sandbox environment, and they only have access to what the BlackWidow API exposes to them.
- Highly Customizable: Almost everything is open for extension or replacement. Make new script interpreters, custom grabber repositories, or roll out your own interpreter APIs
BlackWidow keeps a collection of scripts locally - called the local repository.
Each script gets interpreted as an object implementing IGrabber.
To keep the scripts up-to-date, a remote repository is constantly monitored as the single source of truth.
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