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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,

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Build web scrapers to collect data from websites and automate browser tasks.

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npm install crawlee playwright

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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,

crawlee has 25.6k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 1.7k times. crawlee is written mainly in TypeScript. It has been in active development since 2016. crawlee is available under the Apache-2.0 license. Its main topics are apify, automation, crawler, crawling.

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What is 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,

Is crawlee open source?

crawlee is an open-source project. It is released under the Apache-2.0 license.

Is crawlee free?

Yes. crawlee is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

What license does crawlee use?

crawlee is available under the Apache-2.0 license.

What language is crawlee written in?

crawlee is written mainly in TypeScript.

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