WebDumper vs ChromeController

WebDumper

A tool for scraping, dumping and unpacking (webpacked) javascript source files. (by EllyMandliel)

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ChromeController

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

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

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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

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

What are some alternatives?

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

rod - A Devtools driver for web automation and scraping

skyscraper - Structural scraping for the rest of us.

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

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...