Scrapy AlternativesWeb Scraping Tools and other similar apps like Scrapy

Scrapy is described as 'Free and open-source web-crawling framework written in Python. Originally designed for web scraping, it can also be used to extract data using APIs or as a general-purpose web crawler. It was developed and is maintained by Zyte formerly Scrapinghub, a web-scraping' and is a very popular Web Scraping tool in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Scrapy for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, SaaS, Windows, Linux and Google Chrome apps. The best Scrapy alternative is UI.Vision RPA, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Scrapy are Portia, Apify, Import.io and ParseHub.

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  1. UI.Vision RPA icon
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    Open-source task and test automation tool and Selenium IDE. The UI.Vision RPA software is a browser extension that can do desktop automation as well! Use it for web automation, form filling, screen scraping and Robotic Process Automation (RPA).

    152 UI.Vision RPA alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
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  2. Portia icon
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    Portia is an open source visual scraping tool, allows you to scrape websites without any programming knowledge required! Simply annotate pages you're interested in, and Portia will create a spider to extract data from similar pages.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
    • Vagrant
    • Docker
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  3. Apify icon
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    Cloud platform enabling automated data extraction, web crawling, and browser workflow automation using reusable acts, headless browser support, advanced scheduling, persistent storage, API integrations, modular design and scalable resource management.

    133 Apify alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Online
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  4. Import.io icon
     46 likes

    AI-powered web data extraction platform for turning websites into structured, reliable data with no-code tools, monitoring, and APIs.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  5. ParseHub icon
     67 likes

    ParseHub is a web scraping tool built to handle the modern web.

    You can extract data from anywhere. ParseHub works with single-page apps, multi-page apps and just about any other modern web technology.

    ParseHub can handle Javascript, AJAX, cookies, sessions and redirects. You c.

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    • Online
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  6. FetchFox icon
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    FetchFox is an AI powered web scraper. It takes the raw text of a website, and uses AI to extract data the user is looking for. It runs as a Chrome Extension, and the user describes the desired data in plain English.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Google Chrome
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  7. Crawlbase icon
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    Crawlbase, formerly ProxyCrawl, helps you stay anonymous while crawling the web, web crawling protection the way it should be.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  8. Cockroach Crawler is a governed web acquisition and extraction layer for AI agents. It supports bounded public-web crawling, searchable site maps, robots handling, JavaScript rendering, readable text and Markdown, JSON and JSONL, structured fields, CSS, XPath, restricted-regex...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Mac
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  9. Octoparse icon
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    Octoparse is a no-code web scraping tool. It provides both free pre-made scraper templates and custom scraping features with which people without coding knowledge can extract various web data with simple point-and-click.

    135 Octoparse alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  10. Flyscrape icon
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    Flyscrape is a standalone and scriptable web scraper, combining the speed of Go with the flexibility of JavaScript. — Focus on data extraction rather than request juggling.

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  11. Minexa.ai icon
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    Minexa.ai is a next-generation tool that makes web scraping faster and more affordable with an AI-powered solution no other alternative has. Unlike others that require constant tweaking, struggle under heavy loads, or charge extra for natural language processing, Minexa adapts...

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  12. Diggernaut icon
     33 likes

    Diggernaut is a cloud-based service for web scraping, data extraction, and other ETL tasks. Schedule and run your scrapers in the cloud or compile and run on your PC.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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