Open Source Web Scraper AlternativesWeb Scraping Tools and other similar apps like Web Scraper

The best open source alternative to Web Scraper is Scrapy. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Web Scraper and seven of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Web Scraper are UI.Vision RPA, Portia, Lookyloo and Apify.

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  1. 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...

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    • BSD
     
  2. 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

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  3. Portia icon
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    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.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
    • Vagrant
    • Docker
     
  4. 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.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  5. Apify icon
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    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

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  6. Flyscrape icon
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    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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  7. 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.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Self-Hosted
     
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