10 GitHub Repos That Scrape the Entire Internet
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The List
- Firecrawl — Turns any site into AI-ready data. 130k stars. Half of AI startups use it.
- Crawl4AI — Most popular crawler on GitHub. Converts any page to markdown. No API key needed.
- Browser Use — AI controls the browser like a human. Clicks, scrolls, fills forms, logs in. Built by ETH Zurich researchers.
- Crawlee — Professional scraping framework. Proxy rotation and auto retries built in. What paid crawling companies actually use.
- Scrapy — Industrial grade, running for a decade. Handles millions of pages easily. Always been free.
- MarkItDown — Microsoft’s own conversion tool. PDFs, docs, images to markdown. Their internal pipeline runs on this.
- Scrapling — Adapts when websites change. Dodges anti-bot detection automatically. Premium features, zero cost.
- Scrcpy — Control Android phones remotely. Pull data apps hide from browsers. 130k stars, fully open source.
- AutoScraper — No selectors, no maintenance. Learns the pattern, grabs the data. Few lines of Python only.
- curl-impersonate — Makes requests look human. The trick behind $2000/month scraper APIs.
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Related
- linkedin-charlywargnier-anydoc-firecrawl — anydoc, Firecrawl’s other open-source tool
- MarkItDown (Microsoft) — same author family of document → markdown converters