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24 alternatives to A distributed and persistent web crawler written in Go

Cross-platform persistent and distributed web crawler :link: - schollz/linkcrawler

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A distributed and persistent web crawler written in Go launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Hey HN, This is Jan, founder of Apify, a web scraping and automation platform. Drawing on our team's years of experience, today we're launching Crawlee [1], the web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js that's designed for the fastest development and maximum reliability in production. For details, see the short video [2] or read the announcement blog post [3]. Main features: - Supports headless browsers with Playwright or Puppeteer - Supports raw HTTP crawling with Cheerio or JSDOM - Automated parallelization and scaling of crawlers for best performance - Avoids blocking using…

    2022 · crawlee.dev · its alternatives →

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    Crawlee▲229

    Build reliable web scrapers and robots, fast!

    2022 · crawlee.dev · its alternatives →

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    Distributed web crawler admin platform for spiders management regardless of languages and frameworks. - tikazyq/crawlab

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I'd like to invite everyone to try out DontBeEvil.rip, an experimental search engine for developers. tl;dr $ alias rip="curl -G -H 'Accept: text/plain' --url https://dontbeevil.rip/search --data-urlencode " $ rip 'q=Heartbleed bug' DontBeEvil.rip is a year long experiment to see if a small team can build a developer-focused search engine that is self-sustaining on $10 monthly subscriptions. It works by only indexing high-quality resources that are relevant to developers. You won't get useless listicles because we'll never crawl them. Relevant urls are harvested from HN,…

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Crawly▲606

    Never write another web scraper

    2016 · crawly.diffbot.com · its alternatives →

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    Super-fast web crawling for LLM development

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    I built this tool because I wanted a way to just take a bunch of URLs or domains, and query their content in RAG applications. It takes away the pain of crawling, extracting content, chunking, vectorizing, and updating periodically. I'm curious to see if it can be useful to others. I meant to launch this six months ago but life got in the way...

    2024 · embedding.io · its alternatives →

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    SCRAPR▲260

    The data layer for the agentic web

    Mar 2026 · scraprbeta.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    SEO Hub for GSC + GA4 + a 200-point crawl

    Jul 2026 · crawlraven.com · its alternatives →

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    Distributed crawler powered by Headless Chrome. Contribute to yujiosaka/headless-chrome-crawler development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    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 headf

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Kinase▲159

    A framework for building web scrapers for Chrome

    2017 · b12.io · its alternatives →

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    scrape-it▲186

    A Node.js scraper for humans.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Gondola▲69

    The web framework for Go programming language

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Crawlspace is a centralized web crawling platform that benefits crawler developers AND website owners. Developers can affordably crawl tens of millions of pages per month, scrape with LLMs, and save data in attached storage. Website owners are shielded by a platform-wide TTL cache that absorbs redundant bot traffic. AI bots are running rampant on the open web. Many recent HN stories[1][2][3][4] describe how web crawlers have run amok and hammer websites with DDoS-like traffic. They often do this with blatant disregard of website owners' wishes (e.g. ignoring robots.txt, 429s, Retry-After…

    2025 · crawlspace.dev · its alternatives →

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    Open repository of web crawl data

    2014 · commoncrawl.org · its alternatives →

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    First stable release announcement (1.0.0)

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Please try out this website analyzer and provide feedback on how to improve the output report so that you love the tool. In the first few sentences of the README you will also find a link to the GUI application if you don't want the CLI. To give you an idea of the report, I am sending a sample HTML report for Apple.com - https://crawler.siteone.io/html/2024-08-19/forever/v-bnb7tu5...

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    🌌 An agnostic network crawler exposing comprehensive peer information and network topology information. - dennis-tra/nebula

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Crawlable HTML snapshots for SPAs

    2014 · prerender.io · its alternatives →

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    Never lose track of a website again.

    2014 · fetching.io · its alternatives →

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    Crawl websites from your browser and save them in S3 - spullara/browsercrawler

    2011 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A peer-to-peer tool sharing platform

    2017 · toolmateshire.com.au · its alternatives →

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