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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, Cheerio, JSDOM, and raw HTTP. Both headful and headless mode. With proxy rotation.

apify/crawlee is #1,245 on the bestofgithub Elo ladder, in Emerald III, with a rating of 1,821 (+16 this week). It has 26,453 stars, 73 gained in the last week.

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