apify/crawlee

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.

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This library helps web developers build robust tools to collect data from websites. It allows you to gather various types of content, from structured data like product details to entire files such as images, PDFs, or HTML pages. Developers create automated scripts that take website URLs as input and produce organized datasets or downloaded files as output.

22,542 stars. Used by 2 other packages. Actively maintained with 43 commits in the last 30 days. Available on npm.

Use this if you are a developer tasked with reliably extracting large amounts of data from the web for applications like AI training, content aggregation, or competitive analysis.

Not ideal if you need a no-code solution or a simple browser extension for occasional, manual data extraction.

web-scraping data-extraction web-automation content-collection data-acquisition
Maintenance 23 / 25
Adoption 12 / 25
Maturity 25 / 25
Community 18 / 25

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22,542

Forks

1,288

Language

TypeScript

License

Apache-2.0

Last pushed

Mar 28, 2026

Commits (30d)

43

Dependencies

14

Reverse dependents

2

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