ChromeController vs WebDumper

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ChromeController		WebDumper
	Project
1	Mentions	2
209	Stars	131
-	Growth	-
3.3	Activity	0.0
8 months ago	Latest Commit	almost 3 years ago
Python	Language	TypeScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	-

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

ChromeController

Posts with mentions or reviews of ChromeController. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-11.

Mastering Web Scraping in Python: Crawling from Scratch
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Aug 2021

WebDumper

Posts with mentions or reviews of WebDumper. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-11.

Mastering Web Scraping in Python: Crawling from Scratch
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Aug 2021

I've had decent experience using [1] WebDumper to scrape SPA (single page applications), which rely almost entirely DOM rendering and client-side JS.
I'm curious if folks here had any other recommendations for scraping SPAs, ie React or Angular applications.
1: https://github.com/EllyMandliel/WebDumper
WebDumper - A tool I made for unpaking Single Page Applications using source maps. It works pretty nicely.
1 project | /r/websecurityresearch | 5 Jul 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ChromeController and WebDumper you can also consider the following projects:

rod - A Devtools driver for web automation and scraping

grub-2.0 - Grub is an AI powered Web crawler.

skyscraper - Structural scraping for the rest of us.

ccl_chrome_indexeddb - (Sometimes partial) Python re-implementations of the technologies involved in reading various data sources in Chrome-esque applications.

selenium-python-helium - Lighter web automation for Python [Moved to: https://github.com/mherrmann/helium]

colly - Elegant Scraper and Crawler Framework for Golang

ArchiveBox - 🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more...