Web Scraping & Crawling

Frameworks and tools for web scraping, crawling, and data extraction

Web Scraping & Crawling — comparison of firecrawl, crawl4ai, scrapy, Scrapling, crawlee
🔥 The API to search, scrape, and interact with the web for AI
🚀🤖 Crawl4AI: Open-source LLM Friendly Web Crawler & Scraper. Don't be shy, join here: https://discord.gg/jP8KfhDhyN
Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
🕷️ An adaptive Web Scraping framework that handles everything from a single request to a full-scale crawl!
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.
Popularity
Stars112,10864,20861,42338,48822,950
Global Rank#78#255#277#654#1668
Weekly Activity(Apr 18 – Apr 24)
New Stars+233+69+17+156+16
Pushes3824213
Issues Closed00001
Community
Forks7,1436,57711,4953,4041,323
Contributors1497671018127
Open Issues293716342181
Project Info
OwnerfirecrawlunclecodescrapyD4Vinciapify
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0BSD-3-ClauseBSD-3-ClauseApache-2.0
LanguageTypeScriptPythonPythonPythonTypeScript
CreatedApr 2024May 2024Feb 2010Oct 2024Aug 2016