Crawlee Alternatives

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• hasdata-cli VS crawlee - a user suggested alternative
  2 projects | 4 Jun 2026
• Five overlooked packages running my AI directory stack
  5 projects | dev.to | 22 May 2026

  I haven't shipped Crawlee yet, but it's been on my bookmarks list since I started building the itch.io ETL. My current approach is fetch + manual parsing, which works for known endpoints. Crawlee adds request queue persistence, rate limiting, and a cheerio integration for HTML extraction, all in TypeScript with native ESM support.

• I Built 34 Web Scrapers — Here's What I Learned About Anti-Bot Detection
  1 project | dev.to | 18 Mar 2026

  After trying Scrapy, Playwright, raw Axios, and half a dozen other tools, I settled on Crawlee with Puppeteer. Here's why:

• I Built 23 Free Web Scrapers on Apify — Here is What I Learned
  1 project | dev.to | 17 Feb 2026

  If you aren't using Crawlee, you're playing on hard mode. It’s the engine behind all my scrapers. It handles the boring stuff—request retries, proxy rotation, and session management—so I can focus on the parsing logic. The CheerioCrawler is my favorite for speed, while PlaywrightCrawler is my heavy hitter for dynamic sites.

• How to Scrape Made-in-China.com for B2B Product Data
  2 projects | dev.to | 14 Feb 2026

  Here's a working scraper using Crawlee (CheerioCrawler) that extracts product data from search results:

• How to Bypass reCAPTCHA and Turnstile in Crawlee with CapSolver
  1 project | dev.to | 24 Dec 2025

  Crawlee is a powerful, open-source web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js. It's built to create reliable, production-ready crawlers that can mimic human behavior and evade basic bot detection.

• How I Block All 26M of Your Curl Requests
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Oct 2025

  What I have seen it is hard to tell what "serious scrapers" use. They use many things. Some use this, some not. This is what I have learned reading webscraping on reddit. Nobody speaks things like that out loud.

  There are many tools, see links below

  Personally I think that running selenium can be a bottle neck, as it does not play nice, sometimes processes break, even system sometimes requires restart because of things blocked, can be memory hog, etc. etc. That is my experience.

  To be able to scale I think you have to have your own implementation. Serious scrapers complain about people using selenium, or derivatives as noobs, who will come back asking why page X does not work in scraping mechanisms.

  https://github.com/lexiforest/curl_cffi

  https://github.com/encode/httpx

  https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy

  https://github.com/apify/crawlee

• Scraperr – A Self Hosted Webscraper
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 May 2025

  If you're a fan of Playwright check out Crawlee [0]. I've used it for a few small projects and it's been faster for me to get what I've needed done.

  [0] https://crawlee.dev/

• How to scrape TikTok using Python
  5 projects | dev.to | 30 Apr 2025

  uvx crawlee['cli'] create tiktok-crawlee --crawler-type playwright --http-client httpx --package-manager uv --apify --start-url 'https://crawlee.dev'

• Inside implementing SuperScraper with Crawlee.
  3 projects | dev.to | 5 Mar 2025

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  www.saashub.com | 13 Jun 2026

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