Is it possible to record and repeat user actions in WebBrowserControl (Windows Forms)?

I want to be able to use the .NET WebBrowserControl to record and repeat user actions to automate the collection and retrieval of text from web pages for a data extraction tool that I'm building, but am unsure about how to best approach this.

I specifically want to use the .NET WebBrowserControl as it can be embedded in a .NET form and also used within a server side process without a UI. I'm aware that there are other means of recording and repeating user actions such as Selenium, but for now I am interested in a solution around the web browser control (just to keep answers focused).

Actions to be recorded are those such as button clicks, drop down list selection, link clicks etc.

Potential solutions I have looked at so far:

(Please correct me if my notes based on brief evaluations are wrong)

iMacro (doesn't appear to have a component that can be used within a project, to record user actions, rather the GUI has to be used).

WaitN - Good for programmatic play back - but no recording facility that can be hooked up to the web browser control?

I'm presuming this is pos开发者_如何学编程sible as services like Mozenda appear to make use of the WebBrowserControl, or some IE like version based on mshtml.dll.

Are there any other options I can look at?

Any insight would be appreciated.

yap, as in Mozenda ,when user create any action like goto mainpage>click on images>download image etc... the XPath is recorded with the each page url into XML file. So, use self learning algorithm to implement such kind of XML better way than mozenda.

i have developed one application using JSOUP and Regular Expression Parsing works same as mozenda do. i created the configuration file which contains the XPath of all the items you want . Which works great for me.

Hope this helps,