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24 alternatives to Wibbly

Browser automation API

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Wibbly launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Web scraping made simple — extract data with our free Chrome extension and powerful cloud platform. Turn websites into structured data at scale, via dashboard or API.

    2019 · simplescraper.io · its alternatives →

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    Extract structured content from the semantic web

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Turn any website into an API in just a few seconds.

    2019 · simplescraper.io · its alternatives →

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    Cleanly pull content from any website

    2016 · instaparser.com · its alternatives →

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    Extract web data into structured JSON, no scraper required.

    Jun 2026 · tabstack.ai · its alternatives →

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    Capture▲113

    Fast browser API to capture, extract, & create from web

    2025 · capture.page · 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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    apiJuice▲223

    Create a hosted API for anything in seconds

    2025 · apijuice.com · its alternatives →

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    Select anything on a website. If it is part of a table or a list, you get a URL which you can GET for a JSON representation of that list or table. Basically we are making an API for every website whether they like it or not.

    2013 · ec2-54-211-79-18.compute-1.amazonaws.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, It will be more of a "How I released my API without managing a website, servers, users, and payments. With 0$ up-front cost" Over the past year, I have come up with a plan of how I could release my own product without having to deal with managing users and/or dealing with payment processing. It is a 3 steps procedure: 1. Make an API that solves a problem 2. Deploy it with a serverless architecture 3. Distribute through an API Marketplace That took me about 2-3 days to develop an API using Flask, deploy it via Zappa on AWS, and release through RapidAPI. Source code of API:…

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Get the HTML content of a webpage without the junk.

    2021 · goldenhillsoftware.com · its alternatives →

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    We've been building data pipelines that scrape websites and extract structured data for a while now. If you've done this, you know the drill: you write CSS selectors, the site changes its layout, everything breaks at 2am, and you spend your morning rewriting parsers. LLMs seemed like the obvious fix — just throw the HTML at GPT and ask for JSON. Except in practice, it's more painful than that: - Raw HTML is full of nav bars, footers, and tracking junk that eats your token budget. A typical product page is 80% noise. - LLMs return malformed JSON more often than you'd expect, especially with…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Documind is an open-source tool that turns documents into structured data using AI. What it does: - Extracts specific data from PDFs based on your custom schema - Returns clean, structured JSON that's ready to use - Works with just a PDF link + your schema definition Just run npm install documind to get started.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    API for web scraping, screenshots, PDF generation and more

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Extract content from any web page as JSON

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Extract boilerplate-free text from news links at scale

    2021 · extractorapi.com · its alternatives →

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    Turn websites into APIs

    2025 · scrapegraphai.com · its alternatives →

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    Jam API▲116

    Parse web pages using CSS query selectors

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The web scraping and automation framework.

    2018 · dataflowkit.com · its alternatives →

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    Automatically extract product data with an API

    2019 · xtrct.io · 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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