firecrawl/firecrawlGitHub
calls spider “Choose when you need a high-performance async Rust spider library for LLM/AI data pipelines.”
The context API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. 🔥
170.7kTypeScriptactive
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D4Vinci/ScraplingGitHub
calls spider “Choose for Rust projects needing high-performance crawling and LLM-focused data extraction.”
🕷️ An adaptive Web Scraping framework that handles everything from a single request to a full-scale crawl!
76.7kPythonactive
scrapy/scrapyGitHub
calls spider “Choose for Rust projects that need a high-performance, low-resource crawler.”
Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
64.1kPythonactive
ScrapeGraphAI/Scrapegraph-aiGitHub
calls spider “Choose when you need a high-performance Rust crawler to produce clean data for LLMs without runtime LLM calls.”
Python scraper based on AI
29.8kPythonactive
gocolly/collyGitHub
calls spider “Choose when you prefer a Rust crawler with a small runtime and low-level control over a Go library.”
Elegant Scraper and Crawler Framework for Golang
25.5kGoactive
apify/crawleeGitHub
calls spider “Choose for high-performance Rust scraping; not a drop-in for Node.”
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.
25.5kTypeScriptactive
getmaxun/maxunGitHub
calls spider “Choose when you need a high-performance Rust crawler for AI/LLM data ingestion instead of a hosted platform.”
🔥 The open-source no-code platform for web scraping, crawling, search and AI data extraction • Turn websites into structured APIs in minutes 🔥
17.3kTypeScriptactive
code4craft/webmagicGitHub
calls spider “Choose it when you need a high-performance Rust crawler for AI/LLM data collection.”
A scalable web crawler framework for Java.
11.7kJavaslowing
apify/crawlee-pythonGitHub
calls spider “Choose for high-performance crawling in Rust with low resource consumption.”
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.
9.5kPythonactive
alirezamika/autoscraperGitHub
calls spider “Choose it for high-performance Rust scraping with explicit code, trading autoscraper's sample-driven automation.”
A Smart, Automatic, Fast and Lightweight Web Scraper for Python
7.9kPythonactive
adbar/trafilaturaGitHub
calls spider “Use when you want an asynchronous Rust crawler for native LLM-data or agent pipelines.”
Python & Command-line tool to gather text and metadata on the Web: Crawling, scraping, extraction, output as CSV, JSON, HTML, MD, TXT, XML
6.7kPythonactive
phantombuster/nickjsGitHub
calls spider “Choose when you need a fast Rust crawler and can run it outside the Node ecosystem.”
Web scraping library made by the Phantombuster team. Modern, simple & works on all websites. (Deprecated)
495JavaScriptarchived