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Newspaper alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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Newspaper

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

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#1

Colly

Similarity 134Trust 88Excellent 100

Elegant Scraper and Crawler Framework for Golang

25K starsJun 18, 2026 pushweb-automationGoCrawler
$ npx skills add gocolly/colly
#2

Proxy Pool

Similarity 132Trust 87Excellent 100

Python ProxyPool for web spider

23K starsJun 9, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler
$ npx skills add jhao104/proxy_pool
#3

Scrapy

Similarity 127Trust 88Excellent 100

Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.

63K starsJun 25, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonWeb Automation
$ npx skills add scrapy/scrapy
#4

Lux

Similarity 118Trust 83Excellent 100

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

31K starsMar 29, 2026 pushweb-automationGoCrawler
$ npx skills add iawia002/lux
#5

Katana

Similarity 117Trust 85Excellent 100

A next-generation crawling and spidering framework.

17K starsJun 22, 2026 pushweb-automationGoCrawler
$ npx skills add projectdiscovery/katana
#6

Autoscraper

Similarity 116Trust 87Excellent 100

A Smart, Automatic, Fast and Lightweight Web Scraper for Python

7.9K starsJul 29, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonWeb Automation
$ npx skills add alirezamika/autoscraper
#7

Wiseflow

Similarity 114Trust 84Excellent 94

为所有人准备的AI搞钱团队,帮你把经验和方法跑成一门生意。

8.3K starsJun 5, 2026 pushweb-automationTypeScriptCrawler
$ npx skills add TeamWiseFlow/wiseflow
#8

Maxun

Similarity 112Trust 88Excellent 100

🔥 The open-source no-code platform for web scraping, crawling, search and AI data extraction • Turn websites into structured APIs in minutes 🔥

16K starsJul 2, 2026 pushweb-automationTypeScriptBrowser Automation
$ npx skills add getmaxun/maxun
#9

EasySpider

Similarity 111Trust 89Excellent 100

A visual no-code/code-free web crawler/spider易采集:一个可视化浏览器自动化测试/数据采集/网页爬虫软件,可以无代码图形化的设计和执行爬虫任务。别名:ServiceWrapper面向Web应用的智能化服务封装系统。

44K starsMay 22, 2026 pushweb-automationJavaScriptCrawler
$ npx skills add NaiboWang/EasySpider
#10

Scrapegraph AI

Similarity 110Trust 88Excellent 100

Python scraper based on AI

27K starsJun 15, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonWeb Automation
$ npx skills add ScrapeGraphAI/Scrapegraph-ai
#11

Trafilatura

Similarity 108Trust 88Excellent 100

Python & Command-line tool to gather text and metadata on the Web: Crawling, scraping, extraction, output as CSV, JSON, HTML, MD, TXT, XML

6.4K starsAug 4, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonWeb Automation
$ npx skills add adbar/trafilatura
#12

Helium

Similarity 108Trust 85Excellent 99

Lighter web automation with Python

8.3K starsJun 3, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonWeb Automation
$ npx skills add mherrmann/helium
#13

Changedetection.Io

Similarity 103Trust 90Excellent 100

Best and simplest tool for website change detection, web page monitoring, and website change alerts. Perfect for tracking content changes, price drops, restock alerts, and website defacement monitoring—all for free or enjoy our SaaS plan!

32K starsJun 3, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonWeb Automation
$ npx skills add dgtlmoon/changedetection.io
#14

Scrapling

Similarity 102Trust 83Excellent 100

Adaptive web scraping for agent data collection

70K starsJul 15, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonWeb Automation
$ npx skills add D4Vinci/Scrapling
#15

Awesome Web Scraping

Similarity 100Trust 84Excellent 93

List of libraries, tools and APIs for web scraping and data processing.

7.9K starsMay 28, 2026 pushweb-automationMakefileWeb Automation
$ npx skills add lorien/awesome-web-scraping
#16

Crawl4AI

Similarity 97Trust 88Excellent 100

Open-source LLM-friendly web crawler and scraper

73K starsJul 15, 2026 pushweb-automationClaudeGPT-4
$ npx skills add unclecode/crawl4ai

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