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Newspaper alternatives for AI agents.

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newspaper3k is a news, full-text, and article metadata extraction in Python 3. Advanced docs:

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Colly

Similarity 136Trust 100Excellent 100

Elegant Scraper and Crawler Framework for Golang

25K starsMay 25, 2026 pushweb-automationGoCrawler

$ npx skills add gocolly/colly

Proxy Pool

Similarity 134Trust 100Excellent 100

Python ProxyPool for web spider

23K starsJun 3, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler

$ npx skills add jhao104/proxy_pool

Photon

Similarity 133Trust 100Excellent 98

Incredibly fast crawler designed for OSINT.

13K starsFeb 10, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler

$ npx skills add s0md3v/Photon

Python

Similarity 132Trust 100Excellent 96

Python脚本。模拟登录知乎，爬虫，操作excel，微信公众号，远程开机

11K starsMay 9, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler

$ npx skills add injetlee/Python

JMComic Crawler Python

Similarity 132Trust 100Excellent 100

Python API for JMComic | 提供Python API访问禁漫天堂，同时支持网页端和移动端 | 禁漫天堂GitHub Actions下载器🚀

5.9K starsMay 19, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler

$ npx skills add hect0x7/JMComic-Crawler-Python

Scrapy Redis

Similarity 132Trust 100Excellent 100

Redis-based components for Scrapy.

5.6K starsMay 19, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler

$ npx skills add rmax/scrapy-redis

🚀🚀🚀feapder is an easy to use, powerful crawler framework | feapder是一款上手简单，功能强大的Python爬虫框架。内置AirSpider、Spider、TaskSpider、BatchSpider四种爬虫解决不同场景的需求。且支持断点续爬、监控报警、浏览器渲染、海量数据去重等功能。更有功能强大的爬虫管理系统feaplat为其提供方便的部署及调度

3.7K starsJun 1, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler

$ npx skills add Boris-code/feapder

Weibo Crawler

Similarity 131Trust 100Excellent 97

新浪微博爬虫，用python爬取新浪微博数据，并下载微博图片和微博视频

4.5K starsMay 10, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler

$ npx skills add dataabc/weibo-crawler

Gain

Similarity 129Trust 100Excellent 98

Web crawling framework based on asyncio.

2.0K starsJun 4, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler

$ npx skills add elliotgao2/gain

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OpenWPM

Similarity 128Trust 100Excellent 92

A web privacy measurement framework

1.4K starsMay 17, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler

$ npx skills add openwpm/OpenWPM

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Google Play Scraper

Similarity 125Trust 100Excellent 100

Node.js scraper to get data from Google Play

2.9K starsMay 31, 2026 pushweb-automationJavaScriptCrawler

$ npx skills add facundoolano/google-play-scraper

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QueryList

Similarity 124Trust 100Excellent 100

:spider: The progressive PHP crawler framework! 优雅的渐进式PHP采集框架。

2.7K starsMay 18, 2026 pushweb-automationPHPCrawler

$ npx skills add jae-jae/QueryList

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Toapi

Similarity 123Trust 100Excellent 100

Every web site provides APIs.

3.6K starsJun 4, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler

$ npx skills add elliotgao2/toapi

#14

Douyin

Similarity 122Trust 100Excellent 92

抖音爬虫——采集账号主页、喜欢、收藏、音乐原声、话题、搜索、合集、作品、关注、粉丝等公开数据。

1.6K starsJun 3, 2026 pushweb-automationCrawlerClaude Code

$ npx skills add erma0/douyin

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Lux

Similarity 121Trust 100Excellent 100

👾 Fast and simple video download library and CLI tool written in Go

31K starsMar 29, 2026 pushweb-automationGoCrawler

$ npx skills add iawia002/lux

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Katana

Similarity 120Trust 100Excellent 100

A next-generation crawling and spidering framework.

17K starsJun 8, 2026 pushweb-automationGoCrawler

$ npx skills add projectdiscovery/katana

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