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Best Web Scraping & Crawling Tools
Explore leading tools in the Web Scraping & Crawling category, including open-source options and SaaS products. Compare features, use cases, and find the best fit for your workflow.
10+ open-source projects · 6 SaaS products
Top open-source Web Scraping & Crawling
These projects are active, self-hostable choices for knowledge management teams evaluating alternatives to SaaS tools.
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- MIT
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- 20,704
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Crawlee provides a unified API for HTTP and headless-browser crawling, automatic proxy rotation, persistent queues, and flexible storage, enabling reliable, scalable scrapers in Node.js.
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TypeScript • 5 projectsExpect a strong TypeScript presence among maintained projects.
Popular SaaS Platforms to Replace
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Apify
Web automation & scraping platform powered by serverless Actors
Web Scraping & Crawling
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13 alternatives
Browserbase
Cloud platform for running and scaling headless web browsers, enabling reliable browser automation and scraping at scale
Web Scraping & Crawling
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13 alternatives
Browserless
Headless browser platform & APIs for Puppeteer/Playwright with autoscaling
Web Scraping & Crawling
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13 alternatives
Crawlbase
Web scraping & crawling platform with smart proxy and anti-bot bypass
Web Scraping & Crawling
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13 alternatives
ScrapingBee
Web scraping API that handles headless browsers and rotating proxies
Web Scraping & Crawling
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13 alternatives
Zyte
Data extraction platform with Zyte API, Smart Proxy Manager, and Scrapy Cloud
Web Scraping & Crawling
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13 alternatives
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Apify lets you build and run ‘Actors’ to scrape websites, automate workflows, and integrate results with APIs and databases—scaling locally or in the cloud.
Leading hosted platforms
Frequently replaced when teams want private deployments and lower TCO.
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