e621 webscraper in csharp

To create a simple e621 webscraper in C#, we can use the HTML Agility Pack library to parse the HTML content of the e621 pages, and perform HTTP requests to retrieve the data asynchronously. Here's a sample code:

main.cs
using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using HtmlAgilityPack;

namespace E621WebScraper
{
    class Program
    {
        private static readonly HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient();

        static async Task Main(string[] args)
        {
            var page = 1;
            var url = $"https://e621.net/posts?page={page}";

            var html = await httpClient.GetStringAsync(url);
            var doc = new HtmlDocument();
            doc.LoadHtml(html);

            var posts = doc.DocumentNode.Descendants("article")
                .Where(node => node.GetAttributeValue("class", "")
                    .Contains("post")).ToList();

            // Do something with the posts here ...

            Console.WriteLine($"Retrieved {posts.Count} posts on page {page}");
        }
    }
}
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In this code, we fetch the first page of e621 posts using an HTTP GET request, and then parse the HTML content using HtmlAgilityPack. We filter only the articles with the "post" class, and then do something with them (this could be anything from printing their contents to a file, to analyzing their metadata for various purposes).

Note that we're using HttpClient to perform the HTTP request asynchronously, which allows us to make multiple requests in parallel, and avoid blocking the main thread. In addition, we're using the new C# 8.0 syntax for asynchronous Main functions, which simplifies the code by eliminating the need for an async method call.

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