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calls anakin “Choose when you want a self-hosted Go scraping API that outputs clean markdown/JSON with anti-detect browser and proxy auto-selection.”
The context API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. 🔥
calls anakin “Choose when you want a self-hosted Go API to convert websites to markdown/JSON with anti-detect and proxies.”
Python scraper based on AI
calls anakin “Choose when you want a self-hosted HTTP scraping service rather than embedding a browser, at the cost of AGPL terms.”
The headless browser for AI agents and web scraping
calls anakin “Choose when you want a self-hosted scraping API that outputs markdown/JSON, trading AGPL-3.0 for higher-level endpoints.”
Stealth headless browser for AI agents — bypass Cloudflare, bot detection, and anti-scraping. Drop-in Puppeteer/Playwright replacement.
calls anakin “Use when you prefer a self-hosted HTTP scraping API returning markdown/JSON and handling anti-detection over embedding a Python library.”
Python & Command-line tool to gather text and metadata on the Web: Crawling, scraping, extraction, output as CSV, JSON, HTML, MD, TXT, XML
calls anakin “Pick it when you would rather call a self-hosted scraping API with managed proxies than own a browser stack; note the AGPL-3.0 terms.”
Undetected Playwright for Android. Real Android device in Docker (Redroid), driven via CDP with OS-level stealth. While every other antidetect browser runs desktop Chromium, DAMRU is Android-native, built for web scraping, AI agents & fingerprinting research.
calls anakin “Choose when you want to self-host a scraping API instead of coding within Python.”
🕷️ An adaptive Web Scraping framework that handles everything from a single request to a full-scale crawl!
calls anakin “Choose when you want a self-hosted, anti-detect scraping API service rather than in-code spiders.”
Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
calls anakin “Choose when you want a self-hosted scraping API with anti-detect browser and proxy features, not a Go library.”
Elegant Scraper and Crawler Framework for Golang
calls anakin “Choose if you want a self-hosted scraping API server rather than embedding a library.”
Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js to build reliable crawlers. In JavaScript and TypeScript. Extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG, or GPTs. Download HTML, PDF, JPG, PNG, and other files from websites. Works with Puppeteer, Playwright, Cheerio, JSDOM, and raw HTTP. Both headful and headless mode. With proxy rotation.
calls anakin “Choose it when you want a self-hosted scraping API server instead of embedding a library.”
A scalable web crawler framework for Java.
calls anakin “Choose when you want a self-hosted anti-detect scraping API server rather than embedding a library.”
Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Python to build reliable crawlers. Extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG, or GPTs. Download HTML, PDF, JPG, PNG, and other files from websites. Works with Parsel, BeautifulSoup, Playwright, and raw HTTP. Both headful and headless mode. With proxy rotation.
calls anakin “Choose it if you want a self-hosted anti-detect browser API that returns markdown/JSON, not an embeddable library.”
A Smart, Automatic, Fast and Lightweight Web Scraper for Python