scraper VS extension

Compare scraper vs extension and see what are their differences.

scraper

Declarative web scraper in JavaScript primarily designed to extract linguistics data (by sergeyt)
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scraper extension
1 1
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0.0 0.0
about 1 year ago about 1 year ago
TypeScript TypeScript
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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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.

extension

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

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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.

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.

db3.js - DB3 Network Javascript API

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.

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

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

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

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