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scraping / library

Crawlee

Capability: Crawlee

Use it when

  • production crawlers with browser and HTTP queues
  • Apify-style crawling with retries and storage

What it solves

Not the fit when

  • bot-detection-challenge guaranteed

Install

npm i crawlee playwright

Invoke

Create a `PlaywrightCrawler` or `CheerioCrawler` with a request handler, add seed URLs, then call `crawler.run()` and persist datasets.

Alternatives

scrapy, crawl4ai