playwright-python
Python version of the Playwright testing and automation library. (by microsoft)
colly
Elegant Scraper and Crawler Framework for Golang (by gocolly)
| playwright-python | colly | |
|---|---|---|
| 35 | 41 | |
| 13,613 | 24,584 | |
| 1.1% | 0.4% | |
| 9.2 | 7.6 | |
| 4 days ago | 11 days ago | |
| Python | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
playwright-python
Posts with mentions or reviews of playwright-python.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-04-30.
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How to scrape TikTok using Python
TikTok uses quite a lot of JavaScript on its site, both for displaying content and for analyzing user behavior, including detecting and blocking crawlers. Therefore, for crawling TikTok, we'll use a headless browser with Playwright.
- reviewing prelude's django starter template(by Sheena O'Connell)
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Google and Anthropic are working on AI agents - so I made an open source alternative
Integrating Ollama, Microsoft vision models and Playwright I've made a simple agent that can browse websites and data to answer your query.
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Ask HN: How to remove Ads from a downloaded HTML file to output an ad free file?
Do you have to use Curl? It wouldn't render a lot of sites correctly anyway (anything that uses JS for rendering).
Can you run a puppeteer/playwright instance and add an ad blocker to that? e.g. https://github.com/ghostery/adblocker or https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-python/issues/782
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Scrape Google Flights with Python
Playwright
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Login for web-scraping help
An alternative is to use a package like playwright (or Selenium) to run a browser remotely and login.
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Show HN: Use cookies from Chrome (CDP) in cURL without copy pasting
Using the tools at hand is often the best approach. That said, I've spent most of the last 13 years of my career automating browsers. For years, I used Selenium with a variety of libraries. After switching to Puppeteer/Playwright, I have zero interest in going back lol. Playwright actually has first party Python support. (Puppeteer has a port called Pyppeteer, but it's no longer maintained and the author recommends using Playwright)
https://playwright.dev/python/
- Any extension to automate workflow in automatic1111?
- Can Requests be used to make a call to a js script? Need some guidance.
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I can't find any good Python Selenium tutorials out there. Anyone got any good links to video tutorials or even dcoumentatniton?
This is pretty great for web automation https://playwright.dev/python/
colly
Posts with mentions or reviews of colly.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-01-10.
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Golang with Colly: Use Random Fake User-Agents When Scraping
https://github.com/lib4u/fake-useragent https://github.com/gocolly/colly
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Intermediate Go Projects
Colly GitHub Repository
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Scraping the full snippet from Google search result
SerpApi focuses on scraping search results. That's why we need extra help to scrape individual sites. We'll use GoColly package.
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Show HN: Flyscrape – A standalone and scriptable web scraper in Go
Interesting. Can you compare it to colly? [0]
Last time I looked it was the most popular choice for scraping in Go and I have some projects using it.
Is it similar? Does it have more/less features or is it more suited for a different use case? (Which one?)
[0] https://github.com/gocolly/colly
- Colly: Elegant Scraper and Crawler Framework for Golang
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New modern web crawling tool
Sounds cool, but how is this different from Colly: https://github.com/gocolly/colly?
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colly VS scrapemate - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 15 Apr 2023
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Web Scraping in Python: Avoid Detection Like a Ninja
We could write some snippets mixing all these, but the best option in real life is to use a tool with it all, like Scrapy, pyspider, node-crawler (Node.js), or Colly (Go).
- Web scraping with Go
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Web scraper help
Unless you're specifically trying to do it using net/http, I recommend using colly. I've used it in a few scrappers and I love it!
What are some alternatives?
When comparing playwright-python and colly you can also consider the following projects:
Playwright - Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
GoQuery - A little like that j-thing, only in Go.
Scrapy - Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
Geziyor - Geziyor, blazing fast web crawling & scraping framework for Go. Supports JS rendering.
pyppeteer - Headless chrome/chromium automation library (unofficial port of puppeteer)
xpath - XPath package for golang, supports HTML, XML, JSON document query and more