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Elasticsearch File System Crawler (FS Crawler)
1.4K starsJun 12, 2026 pushweb-automationJavaCrawler
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A scalable web crawler framework for Java.
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NewPipe's core library for extracting data from streaming sites
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$ npx skills add TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#10
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$ npx skills add NaiboWang/EasySpider#11
Elegant Scraper and Crawler Framework for Golang
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$ npx skills add gocolly/colly#12
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$ npx skills add iawia002/lux#13
Python ProxyPool for web spider
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$ npx skills add jhao104/proxy_pool#14
newspaper3k is a news, full-text, and article metadata extraction in Python 3. Advanced docs:
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$ npx skills add codelucas/newspaper#15
A next-generation crawling and spidering framework.
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$ npx skills add projectdiscovery/katana#16
Distributed web crawler admin platform for spiders management regardless of languages and frameworks. 分布式爬虫管理平台，支持任何语言和框架
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