Unguided Application Crawling Architecture

A system for automated acquisition of content from an application includes a link tracking module that controls an instance of the application executing within an emulator. For a selected state, the link tracking module controls the executing application instance to navigate to the selected state and identifies a first set of application states reachable by user interface interaction. A state storage module stores records based on the first set. A first state record includes content of a first state of the first set and a unique identifier that uniquely identifies the first state. The unique identifier indicates a path followed within the executing application instance from a default state to the first state, including corresponding user interface interaction. A scraper module, for each of the records in the state storage module, navigates to the state specified by the unique identifier using the indicated path and extracts text from the state.