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24 alternatives to Element Selector Generator

Chrome Extension for playwright and web scraping

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Element Selector Generator launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Hi HN, I'm Ahmad from the Intuned (https://intunedhq.com) team. Today, we're releasing and open-sourcing Selector Forge (https://selectorforge.ai/), a browser extension that generates reliable CSS/XPath selectors using AI. You can use it to create a selector for a single element or for an array of elements. The selectors it creates are meant to be "semantic" and more resilient to page changes than what Chrome DevTool’s “Copy Selector” (and other similar extensions) give you. Those tend to hand you something brittle like `#top > div.w-100.ph0-l.ph3.ph4-m > h1 >…

    Jun 2026 · selectorforge.ai · its alternatives →

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    WhatRuns▲1,045

    Discover what runs a website in one click 🖥️ 🔍

    2017 · whatruns.com · its alternatives →

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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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    Go full page in one click: Full Page Screenshot with url

    2021 · selectorshub.com · its alternatives →

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    Tailwind CSS editor for busy developers

    2019 · shuffle.dev · its alternatives →

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    There are lots of glassmorphism generators out there, but I wanted to push the effect further! This project is the result of months of experimenting with CSS property layering and battling browser quirks. Cross-browser compatibility is actually the reason I rely on ::before and ::after pseudo-elements to build up the effect. Move the color/opacity to the main element, and you’ll get weird color bleed on the corners in Chrome. Move the texture, and it muddles the bevel’s specular highlight. Move the bevel, and it gets blurred out by the backdrop-filter. And so on! Layers include: *…

    2025 · glass3d.dev · its alternatives →

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    A chrome extension tracks front-end JavaScript that uses DOM / jQuery APIs to manipulate html dom elements (e.g., change style, attach event listener) at runtime. - pilagod/js-tracker

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Raycast built for your browser — packed with 16 tools

    2025 · superdevpro.com · its alternatives →

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    I created this tool a few months ago to automate some of my tasks. I use it to collect prices and files and to get notified when something changes on certain websites. The task runner uses Playwright. I'm not sure if it can be useful to anybody else besides me :) Any feedback is welcome.

    2022 · rocketride.io · its alternatives →

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    Automate and extract contents from any website easily

    2022 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    CSS clip path for containers

    2024 · wavegenerator.app · its alternatives →

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    A marketplace for busy front-end developers

    2021 · shuffle.dev · its alternatives →

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    CSS Selector Generator 🗺. Contribute to antonmedv/finder development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    See any web page structure in one click

    2023 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Library of Slick Elements and Page Sections.

    2023 · 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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    SuperDev▲164

    All in one browser extension for web designers & developers

    2022 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Getting started with Puppeteer and Chrome Headless for Web Scraping - emadehsan/thal

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Copycat▲120

    Extension to test web apps without writing a line of code

    2019 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey Everyone, I just ran a [rather silly] race between Puppeteer (JS), Playwright (Python) and Selenium (Python) to see which one would be fastest on a simple scrape (using Google Colab so you can also run it) Far from a comprehensive benchmark, this race is 100% free from advanced configurations, multi-threading or anything complicated. It just opens Wallapop (a second hand marketplace in Spain) and times how long it takes to extract the first 2000 results of a search. If you like this simple format, have any ideas on how to improve a race like this or have a strong urge to prove Ward…

    2023 · colab.research.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Dizzle▲73

    Simple Fast CSS Selector Engine

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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