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Kemono Downloader
Kemono Downloader - A cross-platform Python app built with PyQt6
Welcome to Kemono Downloader, a versatile Python-based desktop application built with PyQt6, designed to download content from Kemono.su. This tool enables users to archive individual posts or entire creator profiles from services like Patreon, Fanbox, and more, supporting a wide range of file types with customizable settings and advanced features. -
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Bili23 Downloader
Cross platform GUI tool for downloading videos from Bilibili sites
Bili23-Downloader is an open source desktop application designed for downloading video content from the Bilibili platform. It provides a graphical interface that allows users to download various types of media including user-uploaded videos, series episodes, movies, and other hosted content. It focuses on ease of use with a zero-configuration setup, making it accessible to both beginners and experienced users. It supports high performance downloads through multi-threading and includes resume capabilities so interrupted downloads can continue without starting over. It can parse different types of links such as standard video pages, short links, and collection or activity pages to automatically retrieve downloadable media. It also allows users to choose video resolution, audio quality, and encoding format based on the available sources. Additional features include downloading subtitles, comments, metadata, and artwork associated with videos. -
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Scrapy
A fast, high-level web crawling and web scraping framework
Scrapy is a fast, open source, high-level framework for crawling websites and extracting structured data from these websites. Portable and written in Python, it can run on Windows, Linux, macOS and BSD. Scrapy is powerful, fast and simple, and also easily extensible. Simply write the rules to extract the data, and add new functionality if you wish without having to touch the core. Scrapy does the rest, and can be used in a number of applications. It can be used for data mining, monitoring and automated testing. -
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Scylla
Intelligent proxy pool for collecting and managing public proxies
Scylla is an open source proxy pool system designed to collect, validate, and manage large numbers of public proxy servers for use in web scraping and data extraction workflows. It automatically crawls the internet to discover proxy IP addresses and evaluates their availability and reliability before adding them to a usable pool. It includes a JSON API that allows developers and applications to retrieve proxy information programmatically, making it easier to integrate proxy rotation into scraping tools or automation scripts. Scylla also runs a built-in HTTP forward proxy server that can dynamically select a recently validated proxy whenever a request is made. In addition to the API, the system provides a web-based interface where users can view available proxies and monitor their global distribution through a visual dashboard. It is commonly used by developers who need scalable proxy management when gathering data from the internet or building datasets for machine learning. -
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MDCx
Movie metadata scraper and organizer for media libraries and NFO
MDCx is an open source media metadata scraping and organization tool designed to automate the process of collecting detailed information for movie files. It retrieves metadata from multiple online sources and applies it to local media collections, helping users maintain structured and well-organized libraries. MDCx can download information such as titles, cast data, artwork, and other metadata, then generate standardized NFO files compatible with media management systems. It also supports image processing tasks such as downloading and cropping artwork used by media centers. It includes several interfaces, allowing users to operate it through a graphical desktop application, a browser-based web interface, or command-line utilities depending on their workflow. Its architecture separates core scraping logic from the user interfaces, allowing the same metadata processing system to be reused across different modes. -
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SimpDL
A tool to scrape images from SimpCity
SimpDL is an open-source media downloading tool designed to retrieve content from subscription-based or creator platforms, focusing on simplicity and ease of use. It enables users to download images, videos, and other media associated with specific creators or accounts, often through authenticated sessions. The project emphasizes a straightforward workflow where users provide login credentials or tokens, and the tool handles the retrieval and storage of content automatically. It is designed to reduce the complexity of manual downloading while still offering flexibility in how content is saved and organized. SimpDL typically supports batch downloads, allowing users to archive entire profiles or content collections efficiently. The tool is often used for offline access or backup purposes, especially for platforms where content may be time-limited. -
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Python API for JMComic
Python crawler and API for downloading JMComic albums and images
JMComic-Crawler-Python is a Python library and crawler framework designed to programmatically access and download comic content from the JMComic platform. It provides a structured API that allows developers to retrieve albums, chapters, and images using simple Python code while handling the necessary network requests and data processing behind the scenes. It supports both web-based and mobile API interfaces, enabling flexible interaction with the platform depending on the available endpoints. Its architecture includes components for configuration management, download orchestration, and client communication, allowing users to automate the retrieval of manga chapters or entire albums. It includes command-line functionality and configuration files so users can customize download behavior, directory structures, and performance settings without modifying code. It also supports plugin-based extensions that allow additional processing. -
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bilibili-manga-downloader
Download and manage Bilibili Manga chapters with GUI downloader
BiliBili-Manga-Downloader is an open source desktop application designed to download manga chapters from the Bilibili Manga platform for offline reading and local management. It was created to address limitations of the web reading experience, such as intrusive advertisements, inconvenient image zooming, and inconsistent navigation during reading sessions. It provides a graphical user interface that allows users to search for manga titles using keywords, view detailed information about available series, and select chapters to download. BiliBili-Manga-Downloader supports multi-threaded downloading to improve performance and includes progress tracking with estimated time remaining for active downloads. It also offers multiple output formats, allowing chapters to be saved as image folders or compressed comic archive formats suitable for local manga readers. -
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ruia
Async Python framework for fast and flexible web scraping spiders
Ruia is an asynchronous web scraping micro-framework built for Python that focuses on simplicity, speed, and flexibility when creating web crawlers. Ruia is powered by Python’s asyncio library along with aiohttp, enabling developers to perform concurrent network requests efficiently and scrape data from websites with minimal overhead. Ruia follows a “write less, run faster” philosophy, emphasizing concise code and streamlined spider development. It provides a structured approach to building scraping projects through components such as data items, spiders, middleware, and plugins. Developers can define structured fields to extract information from HTML content and process responses asynchronously to improve crawling performance. It also supports middleware and plugin systems that allow customization of request handling, response processing, and additional functionality. -
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Weibo Crawler
Python crawler for collecting and downloading Sina Weibo user data
weibo-crawler is a Python-based data collection tool designed to retrieve information from Sina Weibo user accounts. It automates the process of gathering posts, user profile details, and engagement metrics from one or more target accounts. weibo-crawler can extract comprehensive information about users, including profile attributes such as nickname, follower count, following count, and account metadata. It also captures detailed data about each post, including the content, publishing time, topics, mentions, likes, reposts, and comments. In addition to textual data, the project can download original media from posts, such as images, videos, and Live Photo content. Collected data can be exported to structured formats such as CSV or JSON or stored in databases for further analysis and research. It supports incremental crawling so users can periodically collect only newly published posts, making it useful for ongoing monitoring or dataset updates. -
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dirhunt
Web crawler that finds hidden web directories without brute force
Dirhunt is an open source security tool designed to discover web directories and analyze website structures without relying on brute-force techniques. Instead of sending large numbers of guess-based requests, it operates as a specialized crawler that intelligently explores websites to identify accessible or hidden directories. Dirhunt can detect directories that expose “Index Of” listings, which may reveal files and other resources that were not intended to be publicly visible. It can also identify situations where directories are intentionally hidden through empty index files or servers that return misleading responses such as fake 404 errors. Dirhunt processes HTML pages and other available sources to discover additional paths and directories while minimizing the number of requests sent to the server, making scans faster and less intrusive. It supports scanning multiple targets at the same time and allows results to be filtered, analyzed, and exported for further review. -
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finvizfinance
Finviz analysis python library
finvizfinance is a package that collects financial information from FinViz website. Stock charts, fundamental & technical information, insider information and stock news. Forex charts and performance. Crypto charts and performance. Screener and Group provide data frames for comparing stocks according to different filters and trading signals. Getting information (fundament, description, outer rating, stock news, inside trader) of an individual stock. -
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watercrawl
AI-ready web crawler that extracts and structures website content
WaterCrawl is an open source web crawling and data extraction platform designed to transform website content into structured data suitable for machine learning and AI workflows. It enables developers and researchers to crawl web pages, extract meaningful information, and convert it into formats that are easier to process and analyze. It provides a modern crawling system that can automatically navigate links, control crawl depth, and collect content from targeted sections of a website. WaterCrawl supports customizable extraction rules so users can focus only on relevant elements while ignoring unnecessary page components. WaterCrawl also offers real-time monitoring capabilities, allowing users to track crawling progress, performance metrics, and errors during large data collection jobs. Developers can integrate the tool into applications through a REST API and multiple client SDKs, enabling automated data pipelines and AI data preparation workflows. -
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Crawlab
Distributed web crawler admin platform for spiders management
Golang-based distributed web crawler management platform, supporting various languages including Python, NodeJS, Go, Java, PHP and various web crawler frameworks including Scrapy, Puppeteer, Selenium. Please use docker-compose to one-click to start up. By doing so, you don't even have to configure MongoDB database. The frontend app interacts with the master node, which communicates with other components such as MongoDB, SeaweedFS and worker nodes. Master node and worker nodes communicate with each other via gRPC (a RPC framework). Tasks are scheduled by the task scheduler module in the master node, and received by the task handler module in worker nodes, which executes these tasks in task runners. Task runners are actually processes running spider or crawler programs, and can also send data through gRPC (integrated in SDK) to other data sources, e.g. MongoDB. -
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ScrapeGraphAI
Python scraper based on AI
Extracting content from websites and local documents using LLM. ScrapeGraphAI is a web scraping python library that uses LLM and direct graph logic to create scraping pipelines for websites and local documents (XML, HTML, JSON, Markdown, etc.). Just say which information you want to extract and the library will do it for you. -
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Snoop Project
This is the most powerful software taking into account CIS location
Snoop is an open data intelligence tool (OSINT world). Snoop Project is one of the most promising OSINT tools for finding nicknames. This is the most powerful software taking into account the CIS location. Is your life slideshow? Ask Snoop. Snoop project is developed without taking into account the opinions of the NSA and their friends, that is, it is available to the average user. Snoop is a research work (own database / closed bugbounty) in the field of searching and processing public data on the Internet. In terms of specialized search, Snoop is able to compete with traditional search engines. -
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WeChatSogou
Python library to crawl and retrieve data from WeChat accounts
WechatSogou is an open source Python library designed to retrieve data from WeChat official accounts by using the Sogou WeChat search service as its data source. It provides developers with a programmatic way to search for public accounts and collect article information without manually browsing the search interface. It functions as a crawler interface that sends requests to the search engine, retrieves results, and converts the returned pages into structured data that can be used in applications or analysis pipelines. Internally, the library separates its functionality into several layers including an API interface, request handling, and response parsing components to organize the crawling workflow. These components work together to process HTTP requests, handle verification mechanisms, and transform HTML or JSON responses into usable objects. Developers can integrate the library into scripts or larger data collection systems to automate gathering content from public accounts. -
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douyin
Open source Douyin crawler for collecting and downloading public data
DouyinCrawler is an open source data collection tool designed to gather publicly available information from the Douyin platform. It demonstrates how to build a Python-based web crawler combined with a graphical interface and command line functionality. It allows users to collect data from various types of Douyin content, including user profiles, videos, hashtags, and music pages. DouyinCrawler supports both automated scraping and batch operations to process multiple targets efficiently. It also integrates with the Aria2 download utility to enable large-scale downloading of videos and images associated with collected content. It includes multiple usage modes such as a desktop GUI, a web service interface, and a command line tool for flexible deployment. In addition to data collection, it supports incremental updates so users can track and gather newly published content without reprocessing previously collected data. -
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owllook
Vertical novel search engine with unified reading and tracking tools
Owllook is an open source vertical search engine designed for discovering and reading online novels from multiple sources. Instead of redirecting users to different sites, the system parses content from many novel platforms and presents it in a unified reading interface. It focuses on providing a simple and comfortable reading experience with features such as searching for books, following updates, bookmarking chapters, and maintaining a personal bookshelf. It aggregates results from multiple search engines and applies parsing rules to extract novel metadata, chapters, and content in a consistent format. Owllook also includes functionality for tracking reading history, displaying rankings based on search activity, and recommending books using a similarity-based approach. Owllook is built using asynchronous technologies to support efficient data retrieval and responsive interactions while reading or searching. -
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Selectolax
Python binding to Modest and Lexbor engines
A fast HTML5 parser with CSS selectors using Modest and Lexbor engines. Selectolax supports two backends: Modest and Lexbor. By default, all examples use the Modest backend. Most of the features between backends are almost identical, but there are still some differences. Currently, the Lexbor backend is in beta and missing some of the features. To use lexbor, just import the parser and use it in the similar way to the HTMLParser. -
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grab-site
Web crawler for archiving and backing up sites into WARC archives
grab-site is an open source web crawling tool designed to archive and back up websites by recursively downloading their content. It works by taking a starting URL and systematically following links across the site, capturing pages and resources and saving them into WARC archive files for long-term preservation. Internally, the crawler uses a fork of the wpull engine to fetch and process web pages efficiently during large-scale crawls. grab-site includes a built-in dashboard that displays real-time crawl activity, including which URLs are currently being processed and how many remain in the queue. Users can dynamically apply ignore patterns during an active crawl, allowing them to skip problematic or unnecessary URLs that could slow down or block the archiving process. grab-site also provides predefined ignore sets for common site structures such as forums and other complex web platforms. Additional mechanisms like duplicate page detection help avoid re-crawling identical content. -
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rnet
Python HTTP client with TLS and HTTP/2 fingerprint emulation support
rnet is an ergonomic and modular Python HTTP client designed for developers who need advanced control over network requests and protocol behavior. It provides a flexible API for making HTTP requests while supporting both asynchronous and blocking workflows, allowing it to integrate easily into different Python applications and runtimes. rnet focuses on low-level protocol customization, giving users fine-grained control over TLS and HTTP/2 configuration in order to emulate specific browser behaviors. This includes support for TLS fingerprinting techniques such as JA3 and JA4 as well as detailed HTTP/2 settings, enabling more accurate simulation of real client network traffic. It is powered by the underlying wreq engine and is built with performance and modularity in mind. rnet also supports advanced networking capabilities such as proxy rotation, connection pooling, and streaming transfers, which make it suitable for automation, scraping, and high-performance network. -
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sqliv
Massive SQL injection vulnerability scanner for automated web testing
SQLiv is a command-line security tool designed to identify SQL injection vulnerabilities in web applications through automated scanning techniques. Written primarily in Python, the project focuses on discovering potentially vulnerable web pages by analyzing URLs that contain database query parameters. It can perform large-scale scanning by using search engine queries known as SQL injection dorks to collect candidate websites and then test them for vulnerabilities. In addition to bulk scanning, SQLiv supports targeted analysis of specific domains or individual URLs, allowing security researchers to focus on particular web applications. When a domain is supplied, the scanner can crawl the site to gather URLs with parameters and evaluate them for potential SQL injection weaknesses. SQLiv also supports reverse domain scanning to locate other websites hosted on the same server, which can then be examined for similar vulnerabilities. -
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ECommerceCrawlers
Collection of Python ecommerce and website crawler examples projects
ECommerceCrawlers is a collection of practical Python web crawler projects designed to gather data from a variety of ecommerce platforms, websites, and online services. It aggregates many independent crawler examples created by contributors and organized into separate subprojects that target specific sites or data sources. These examples demonstrate how to build and operate web scrapers capable of collecting structured information such as product listings, news content, job postings, social media data, and other publicly available web data. It aims to help developers understand the full workflow of web scraping, including request simulation, data extraction, storage, and handling anti-scraping techniques. It includes crawlers for platforms such as ecommerce marketplaces, blogging platforms, recruitment sites, and social networks, providing real-world practice scenarios. Developers can study the individual project documentation to understand the analysis process. -
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Pydoll
Async Python library in automating Chromium browsers without WebDriver
Pydoll is a Python library designed for automating Chromium-based web browsers such as Chrome and Edge without relying on a traditional WebDriver layer. Instead of using external drivers, it connects directly to the Chrome DevTools Protocol through WebSocket, allowing scripts to control browser behavior more efficiently and with fewer compatibility issues. It provides a high-level API that simplifies common browser automation tasks while still offering access to low-level protocol features for advanced control. Its architecture is built around asynchronous programming using Python’s asyncio framework, enabling concurrent automation of multiple tabs and browser contexts. Pydoll also includes tools for monitoring and intercepting network traffic, allowing developers to analyze or modify requests and responses during automation workflows. It emphasizes realistic interactions and fingerprint management to reduce the likelihood of automated actions.
