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Articles by Elijah Asaolu

Web scraping with .NET: a practical guide

If your stack is already C#, there is no reason to reach for Python to collect data. This guide covers the complete .NET scraping stack: HtmlAgilityPack and AngleSharp for static pages, Playwright for JavaScript-rendered content, and when the operational cost of managing headless browsers makes a managed scraping API the better call.

Elijah AsaoluMay 6, 2026 · 7 min read

AI-powered web scraping with Rust

CSS selectors break every time a site redesigns. AI-powered scraping replaces brittle selectors with natural language prompts and returns typed structured output that maps directly to Rust structs. This guide covers prompt-based extraction, JSON schema output for LLM pipelines, and wiring live web data into a Rust AI agent.

Elijah AsaoluMay 5, 2026 · 7 min read

AI-powered web scraping with .NET

XPath expressions and CSS selectors are tightly coupled to DOM structure and break silently every time a site redesigns. AI-powered scraping lets you describe what you want in plain English and returns structured output that deserializes directly into C# records via System.Text.Json. This guide covers prompt-based extraction, JSON schema output, Semantic Kernel integration, and production retry patterns with Polly.

Elijah AsaoluMay 1, 2026 · 9 min read

Web scraping with Rust: a practical guide

Rust makes a surprisingly strong case for web scraping: near-zero memory overhead, first-class async with Tokio, and a type system that catches errors before they reach production. This guide covers the full Rust scraping stack, from static HTML parsing with reqwest and scraper, through JavaScript rendering with chromiumoxide, to handling anti-bot measures and proxy rotation with a managed scraping API.

Elijah AsaoluApril 28, 2026 · 9 min read

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