9 alternatives to colly
gocolly/colly — Elegant Scraper and Crawler Framework for Golang (25,573 stars, Apache-2.0, integration, scraping, files).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 43 licence-cleared components from gocolly/colly itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
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| 1 | scrapy/scrapy | 4.7 | BSD-3-Clause | 65,030 |
| 2 | scrapegraphai/scrapegraph-ai | 4.8 | MIT | 32,239 |
| 3 | coder-hxl/x-crawl | 4.7 | MIT | 1,890 |
| 4 | spatie/crawler | 4.3 | MIT | 2,831 |
| 5 | jhao104/proxy_pool | 6.2 | MIT | 23,766 |
| 6 | apify/crawlee | 4.8 | Apache-2.0 | 26,261 |
| 7 | apify/crawlee-python | 4.5 | Apache-2.0 | 9,626 |
| 8 | sjdirect/abot | 4.4 | Apache-2.0 | 2,308 |
| 9 | alexmathew/scrapple | 4.6 | MIT | 506 |
The alternatives in detail
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Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
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Python scraper based on AI
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Flexible Node.js crawler libraryscore 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 1,890 stars · 12 components · search them
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https://spatie.be/docs/crawlerscore 4.3/10 · MIT permissive · 2,831 stars · 29 components · search them
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Python ProxyPool for web spider
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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 webs
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Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Python to build reliable crawlers. Extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG, or GPTs. Download HTML, PDF, JPG, PNG, and other files from websites. Works with Parsel, Beautiscore 4.5/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 9,626 stars · 424 components · search them
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Cross Platform C# web crawler framework built for speed and flexibility. Please star this project! +1.score 4.4/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 2,308 stars · 36 components · search them
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A framework for creating semi-automatic web content extractorsscore 4.6/10 · MIT permissive · 506 stars · 15 components · search them
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