Crawlee

Web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js, covering link discovery, data extraction and storage.

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About

Crawlee is a web scraping and browser automation library distributed as the crawlee npm package and requiring Node.js 22.13 or higher. It finds links, scrapes data and stores results to disk or cloud storage. A Python version is maintained in a separate repository, and the README example uses PlaywrightCrawler with Playwright installed separately.

Use cases: web-scraping, browser-automation

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Fact sheet

Category: Scraping · crawl framework
Works with: playwright, puppeteer, cheeriocrawlee.dev

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Stars: 26,248
Forks: 1,729
Open issues: 98
Last commit: Oct 23, 2026 (6 days ago)
Last release: Sep 29, 2026 (1 month ago)

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Details

Packages: npm crawlee
License: Apache-2.0
Repository: github.com/apify/crawlee
Website: crawlee.dev
Docs: crawlee.dev/js/docs/quick-start
First seen: Oct 24, 2026
Last checked: Oct 24, 2026
Source: README Website Docs github-graphql