Best Web Scraping Tools 2025
Compare the most popular web scraping tools and libraries ranked by GitHub stars, forks, and community activity. Live data from GitHub.
Choosing the right web scraping tool depends on your programming language, use case, and project requirements. This comparison table shows real-time GitHub statistics to help you make an informed decision based on community adoption, maintenance activity, and ecosystem maturity.
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Top 10 Tools by GitHub Stars
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| Tool | Forks | Issues | Watchers | Stars | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Axios Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js |  | 11,419 | 190 | 1,171 | 108,248 |
| Puppeteer JavaScript API for Chrome and Firefox |  | 9,329 | 270 | 1,182 | 92,900 |
| Playwright Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API. | | 4,844 | 542 | 541 | 79,495 |
| Scrapy Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python. |  | 11,159 | 472 | 1,762 | 58,991 |
| Requests A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library. | | 9,606 | 204 | 1,307 | 53,492 |
| Selenium A browser automation framework and ecosystem. |  | 8,617 | 151 | 1,263 | 33,660 |
| Cheerio The fast, flexible, and elegant library for parsing and manipulating HTML and XML. | | 1,679 | 23 | 345 | 29,906 |
| ChangeDetection.io Best and simplest tool for website change detection, web page monitoring, and website change alerts. Perfect for tracking content changes, price drops, restock alerts, and website defacement monitoring—all for free or enjoy our SaaS plan! | | 1,602 | 269 | 98 | 28,884 |
| Colly Elegant Scraper and Crawler Framework for Golang |  | 1,841 | 147 | 321 | 24,824 |
| Crawlee 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 headful and headless mode. With proxy rotation. | | 1,100 | 171 | 124 | 20,597 |
| Stagehand The AI Browser Automation Framework | | 1,245 | 89 | 89 | 19,147 |
| aiohttp Asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python | | 2,157 | 196 | 211 | 16,099 |
| Crawlab Distributed web crawler admin platform for spiders management regardless of languages and frameworks. 分布式爬虫管理平台，支持任何语言和框架 | | 1,883 | 155 | 216 | 12,064 |
| Mozilla Readability A standalone version of the readability lib | | 690 | 281 | 99 | 10,615 |
| Mercury Parser 📜 Extract meaningful content from the chaos of a web page | | 529 | 95 | 90 | 5,737 |
| HyperAgent AI Browser Automation | | 104 | 9 | 3 | 803 |
Understanding the Rankings
The rankings are based on GitHub repository statistics that reflect community engagement and project health
Indicates popularity and community interest in the project. More stars typically mean better documentation and resources.
Shows how many developers are actively contributing or using the codebase. High fork count signals active community engagement.
Reflects active development and community engagement. Not necessarily bugs—often feature requests and discussions.
Users actively monitoring project updates. Indicates sustained interest and commitment from the developer community.
Choosing the Right Tool
Consider these factors when selecting a web scraping tool for your project
Choose tools that match your tech stack (Python, JavaScript, Go, etc.) for seamless integration.
Browser automation vs. HTML parsing vs. full-featured framework. Match the tool to your specific needs.
Headless browsers are powerful but slower than lightweight parsers. Balance power with speed.
Higher stars and forks usually mean better documentation and community help when you need it.
Check the last updated date to ensure the project is actively maintained and receiving updates.
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