Powerful and free scraper with a headless browser under the hood and Readability for parsing

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  • scrapper

    Web scraper with a simple REST API living in Docker and using a Headless browser and Readability.js for parsing.

  • trafilatura

    Python & command-line tool to gather text on the Web: web crawling/scraping, extraction of text, metadata, comments

    • I've been playing with Trafilatura lately, and it's very good. There are a few very thorough comparisons to other projects and it really shines. It doesn't do anything headless from what I can tell, but it doesn't have to do the scraping itself. Maybe an option could be to use Playwright to scrape, then Trafilatura to parse. Food for thought.

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