excel-stream vs x-ray

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The next web scraper. See through the <html> noise. (by matthewmueller)

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excel-stream		x-ray
	Project
-	Mentions	3
137	Stars	5,831
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
almost 2 years ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

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x-ray

Posts with mentions or reviews of x-ray. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-22.

The best Node.js web scrapers for your use case
3 projects | dev.to | 22 Mar 2023

X-Ray is a Node.js library created for scraping the web. So, it is no surprise that its API is heavily focused on that task. Thus, it abstracts most of the complexity we have seen in Puppeteer and Axios from developers.
Can anyone scrape the names and prices of all the products from this website?
1 project | /r/webscraping | 26 Jun 2022

I used x-ray (Javascript/Nodejs) to get your data. This is all the code I needed:
New To x-ray... actually new to Node all together
1 project | /r/npm | 29 Jul 2021

You talking about this package? https://www.npmjs.com/package/x-ray

What are some alternatives?

When comparing excel-stream and x-ray you can also consider the following projects:

xlsx-populate - Excel XLSX parser/generator written in JavaScript with Node.js and browser support, jQuery/d3-style method chaining, encryption, and a focus on keeping existing workbook features and styles in tact.

strip-json-comments - Strip comments from JSON. Lets you use comments in your JSON files!

google-libphonenumber - The up-to-date and reliable Google's libphonenumber package for node.js.

URI.js - Javascript URL mutation library

xml2js - XML to JavaScript object converter.

parse5 - HTML parsing/serialization toolset for Node.js. WHATWG HTML Living Standard (aka HTML5)-compliant.

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Chevrotain - Parser Building Toolkit for JavaScript

PEG.js - PEG.js: Parser generator for JavaScript

neat-csv - Fast CSV parser