---
title: "Html Agility Pack"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/12/11/html-agility-pack.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/12/11/html-agility-pack.html"
published: "2006-12-11T14:23:17"
updated: "2006-12-11T14:23:17"
tags: [".NET", ".Net 2.0", "ASP.NET"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Now, this is cool if you do a lot of html parsing! You can tell I was drawn to it by the word \"Agile\" hidden in there. I guess \"Agile\" is the new black. It goes with everything. HtmlAgilityPack is an open source project…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Html Agility Pack

By Roy Osherove December 11, 2006 In [.NET](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net), [.Net 2.0](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-2-0), [ASP.NET](https://osherove.com/blog/category/asp-net)

**Historical article** · Originally published December 11, 2006; technical details may be outdated.

Now,[this is cool](http://blogs.msdn.com/joshch/archive/2006/12/10/better-html-parsing-and-validation-with-htmlagilitypack.aspx) if you do a lot of html parsing! You can tell I was drawn to it by the word "Agile" hidden in there. I guess "Agile" is the new black. It goes with everything.

> [HtmlAgilityPack](http://www.codeplex.com/htmlagilitypack) is an open source project on CodePlex.  It provides standard DOM APIs and XPath navigation -- _even when the HTML is not well-formed!_

The post is more specifically talking about use cases for this when doing custom validation and extraction of text while doing Web Testing with Team System, but I can see this used in many other places.

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