Crawlee: The Ultimate Tool for Web Scraping

Summary

• 🏗️ Reliable Crawling

  Crawlee helps you build and maintain crawlers more efficiently. It allows for easy switching between browser crawlers and API usage, ensuring your proxies remain healthy and human-like.

• 🖥️ JavaScript & TypeScript Support

  Crawlee is built on Node.js and TypeScript, providing excellent code completion and supporting both JavaScript and TypeScript for web scraping.

• 🌐 HTTP Scraping Features

  Crawlee mimics browser headers and TLS fingerprints for HTTP requests, automatically rotating them based on real-world traffic data. It includes popular HTML parsers like Cheerio and JSDOM.

• 🚀 Headless Browsers Integration

  Switch from HTTP to headless browsers with minimal code changes. Crawlee enhances Puppeteer and Playwright with anti-blocking features and human-like fingerprints.

• 📊 Automatic Scaling and Proxy Management

  Crawlee manages concurrency and smartly rotates proxies, discarding those that frequently time out or return errors.

• 📥 Queue and Storage Management

  Easily save files, screenshots, and JSON results. Crawlee maintains a unique queue for URLs, ensuring progress is not lost.

• 🔧 Helpful Utilities and Configurability

  Crawlee includes tools for extracting data and offers rich configuration options, making it user-friendly and adaptable.

• 👾 Getting Started with Crawlee

  To try Crawlee, install it via the CLI or integrate it into your project. Use PlaywrightCrawler for enhanced functionality.

• ☁️ Deploying to the Cloud

  Crawlee can be deployed on platforms like AWS and Google Cloud, with the best experience on the Apify platform. Follow simple steps to set up and deploy your project.