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calls webster “Choose for a higher-level Node crawler framework with routing, but note the GPL-3.0 license.”
Web scraping library made by the Phantombuster team. Modern, simple & works on all websites. (Deprecated)
calls webster “Older Node.js crawling framework; consider only if you need an unmaintained simple crawler.”
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 webster “Scraping framework for Node; more opinionated and narrower than general automation.”
A high-level browser automation library.
calls webster “Choose it over Rod only for legacy Node.js/PhantomJS-era scraping; unmaintained and not CDP-based.”
A Chrome DevTools Protocol driver for web automation and scraping.