Open Source PhantomBuster AlternativesWeb Scraping Tools and other similar apps like PhantomBuster

The best open source alternative to PhantomBuster is UI.Vision RPA. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to PhantomBuster and 17 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to PhantomBuster are Scrapy, Portia, Selenium and Lookyloo.

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  1. UI.Vision RPA icon
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    Open-source task and test automation tool and Selenium IDE. The UI.Vision RPA software is a browser extension that can do desktop automation as well! Use it for web automation, form filling, screen scraping and Robotic Process Automation (RPA).

    146 UI.Vision RPA alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  2. Scrapy icon
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    Scrapy is a free and open-source web-crawling framework written in Python. Originally designed for web scraping, it can also be used to extract data using APIs or as a general-purpose web crawler. It was developed and is maintained by Zyte formerly Scrapinghub, a web-scraping...

    107 Scrapy alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  3. Portia icon
     62 likes

    Portia is an open source visual scraping tool, allows you to scrape websites without any programming knowledge required! Simply annotate pages you're interested in, and Portia will create a spider to extract data from similar pages.

    87 Portia alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Vagrant
    • Docker
     
  4. Selenium icon
     60 likes

    Selenium is a suite of tools specifically for testing web applications. It provides a playback tool for authoring functional tests across most modern web browsers, without the need to learn a test scripting language (Selenium IDE).

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • JavaScript
    • Java
    • Ruby
    • Python
     
  5. Lookyloo icon
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    Lookyloo is a web interface that allows users to capture a website page and then display a tree of domains that call each other.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  6. Apify icon
     18 likes

    Cloud platform enabling automated data extraction, web crawling, and browser workflow automation using reusable acts, headless browser support, advanced scheduling, persistent storage, API integrations, modular design and scalable resource management.

    110 Apify alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. artoo.js icon
     4 likes

    artoo.js is a piece of JavaScript code meant to be run in your browser's console to provide you with some scraping utilities.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Google Chrome
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
     
  8. Flyscrape icon
     6 likes

    Flyscrape is a standalone and scriptable web scraper, combining the speed of Go with the flexibility of JavaScript. — Focus on data extraction rather than request juggling.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. ScraperAPI icon
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    ScraperAPI enables easy scalable web scraping by managing IP rotation, headless browsers, and CAPTCHAs, simplifying data extraction from eCommerce, SERP, social media, real estate, travel sites, and reviews. Developers enjoy a streamlined experience by providing just a URL to receive HTML pages.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  10. A flexible web crawler and scraping tool using Playwright, supporting both BFS and DFS crawling strategies with screenshot capture and structured output. Installable via npm and usable both as a CLI and programmatically.

    Cost / License

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Scraperr icon
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    Scraperr is a self-hosted web application that allows users to scrape data from web pages by specifying elements via XPath. Users can submit URLs and the corresponding elements to be scraped, and the results will be displayed in a table.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. CasperJS icon
     15 likes

    CasperJS is an open source navigation scripting & testing utility written in Javascript for the PhantomJS WebKit headless browser and SlimerJS (Gecko).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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