ChromeController VS grub-2.0

Compare ChromeController vs grub-2.0 and see what are their differences.

ChromeController

Comprehensive wrapper and execution manager for the Chrome browser using the Chrome Debugging Protocol. (by fake-name)

grub-2.0

Grub is an AI powered Web crawler. (by kordless)
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ChromeController grub-2.0
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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.

grub-2.0

Posts with mentions or reviews of grub-2.0. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-25.
  • I want to dive into how to make search engines
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Aug 2022
    Not finished, but the Selenium based crawler works pretty well to combat most blocks: https://github.com/kordless/grub-2.0

    For IP blocks, try this: https://github.com/kordless/mitta-screenshot

  • Ask HN: Decent, open source search engine?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Aug 2022
    I started https://mitta.us as this, but am pivoting to prompt management for GPT-3. I've Open Sourced the code for the crawler here: https://github.com/kordless/grub-2.0. The entire system uses Google Vision for extracting text. I dislike fiddling with the DOM...

    If you are interested in using Solr for this, I can provide instructions to you. I'm kordless at the gmails ... com.

  • How to Scrape and Extract Hyperlink Networks with BeautifulSoup and NetworkX
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Nov 2021
    Depending on the use case you might try imaging the page, then send the image to an ML model for full text before indexing. If you need links extracted, Selenium also supports parsing the assembled DOM: https://github.com/kordless/grub-2.0/tree/main/aperture
  • Mastering Web Scraping in Python: Crawling from Scratch
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Aug 2021
    I’ve found imaging the page and doing OCR on the image is quite good for text extraction. Many pages on the Internet render with JavaScript, which means BS may not see the text in the DOM.

    Here is the code to do some of that: https://github.com/kordless/grub-2.0

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ChromeController and grub-2.0 you can also consider the following projects:

WebDumper - A tool for scraping, dumping and unpacking (webpacked) javascript source files.

skyscraper - Structural scraping for the rest of us.

rod - A Devtools driver for web automation and scraping

mitta-screenshot - Mitta's Chrome extension for saving the current view of a website.

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]

phalanx - Phalanx is a cloud-native distributed search engine that provides endpoints through gRPC and traditional RESTful API.

markov - Materials for book: "Markov Chains for programmers"

colly - Elegant Scraper and Crawler Framework for Golang