Open Source TypeScript Web Scrapers

Pandora-Box is a lightweight desktop client designed to provide a graphical interface for the Mihomo proxy core. It allows users to manage proxy configurations and subscriptions through a simple and user-friendly interface rather than working directly with configuration files. Pandora-Box supports multiple proxy protocols and provides tools to organize and control network routing rules. It is designed to work for both casual users who want an easy setup and advanced users who need more control over proxy behavior. It also supports automatic rule grouping and features such as TUN mode to enable system-wide proxy routing. Pandora-Box focuses on delivering a clean interface with practical features for importing, managing, and converting proxy subscriptions. Pandora-Box combines a desktop interface with backend components to create a functional proxy management environment that simplifies complex networking configurations.

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.

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.

The next-generation web scraping framework. The web has changed. Gone are the days when raw HTML parsing scripts were the proper tool for the job. Javascript and single-page applications are now the norms. Demand for data scraping and automation is higher than ever, from business needs to data science and machine learning. Our tools need to evolve. Ayakashi helps you build scraping and automation systems that are easy to build simple or sophisticated, highly performant, maintainable, and built for change. Ayakashi's way of finding things in the page and using them is done with props and domQL. Directly inspired by the relational database world (and SQL), domQL makes DOM access easy and readable no matter how obscure the page's structure is. Props are the way to package domQL expressions as re-usable structures which can then be passed around to actions or to be used as models for data extraction.

Crawlee is a web scraping and browser automation library. It helps you build reliable crawlers. Fast. Crawlee won't fix broken selectors for you (yet), but it helps you build and maintain your crawlers faster. When a website adds JavaScript rendering, you don't have to rewrite everything, only switch to one of the browser crawlers. When you later find a great API to speed up your crawls, flip the switch back. It keeps your proxies healthy by rotating them smartly with good fingerprints that make your crawlers look human-like. It's not unblockable, but it will save you money in the long run. Crawlee is built by people who scrape for a living and use it every day to scrape millions of pages. Meet our community on Discord. We believe websites are best scraped in the language they're written in. Crawlee runs on Node.js and it's built in TypeScript to improve code completion in your IDE, even if you don't use TypeScript yourself.

Crawl and convert any website into LLM-ready markdown or structured data. Built by Mendable.ai and the Firecrawl community. Includes powerful scraping, crawling, and data extraction capabilities. Firecrawl is an API service that takes a URL, crawls it, and converts it into clean markdown or structured data. We crawl all accessible subpages and give you clean data for each. No sitemap is required.

It's the first modern headless browsers designed specifically for scraping instead of just automated testing. Hero provides access to the W3C DOM specification without the need for Puppeteer's complicated evaluate callbacks and multi-context switching. We've recreated a fully compliant DOM directly in NodeJS allowing you bypass the headaches of previous scraper tools. The powerful Chrome engine sits under the hood, allowing for lightning fast rendering. Emulators make it easy to disguise your script as practically any browser.

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.

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.

SecretAgent is a headless browser that’s nearly impossible to detect. It achieves this by emulating real users. And it has powerful auto-replay functionality that lets you create and debug scripts in record setting time.