extension vs scraper

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web scraping extension (by get-set-fetch)

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scraper

Declarative web scraper in JavaScript primarily designed to extract linguistics data (by sergeyt)

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SurveyJS - Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App

With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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extension		scraper
	Project
1	Mentions	1
58	Stars	3
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
TypeScript	Language	TypeScript
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

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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.

extension

Posts with mentions or reviews of extension. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Scraping Sub-page on a password protected site
1 project | /r/webscraping | 3 Feb 2021

Once such open source extension is https://github.com/get-set-fetch/extension . Happy scraping :)

scraper

Posts with mentions or reviews of scraper. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-24.

LinguaBook - React app for learning Basic English
2 projects | dev.to | 24 Jan 2021

Under the hood it is heavily using my Just-in-Time scraper (my another open source project). This scrapper parses HTML pages from multiple sources in the browser and the parsed results are displayed on the page.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing extension and scraper you can also consider the following projects:

argent-x - ArgentX browser extension for StarkNet - made with ❤️ by Argent

cheerio - The fast, flexible, and elegant library for parsing and manipulating HTML and XML.

browstorjs - Persistent key/value data storage for your Browser and/or PWA, promisified, including file support and service worker support, all with IndexedDB. Perfectly suitable for your next (PWA) app.

scraper - Nodejs web scraper. Contains a command line, docker container, terraform module and ansible roles for distributed cloud scraping. Supported databases: SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL. Supported headless clients: Puppeteer, Playwright, Cheerio, JSdom.

crawlee - Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js to build reliable crawlers. In JavaScript and TypeScript. Extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG, or GPTs. Download HTML, PDF, JPG, PNG, and other files from websites. Works with Puppeteer, Playwright, Cheerio, JSDOM, and raw HTTP. Both headful and headless mode. With proxy rotation.

mwoffliner - Mediawiki scraper: all your wiki articles in one highly compressed ZIM file

db3.js - DB3 Network Javascript API

linguabook.github.io - Just-in-time scraper of linguistic information from different sources like Cambridge, Merriam-Webster. It also has a satellite Chrome Extension to see linguistic information for selected word while you surfing the internet

acebase - A fast, low memory, transactional, index & query enabled NoSQL database engine and server for node.js and browser with realtime data change notifications

cheerio - Fast, flexible, and lean implementation of core jQuery designed specifically for the server. [Moved to: https://github.com/cheeriojs/cheerio]