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News Please

news-please - an integrated web crawler and information extractor for news that just works

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#1

Proxy Pool

Similarity 117Trust 94Excellent 100

Python ProxyPool for web spider

23K starsJun 9, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler
$ npx skills add jhao104/proxy_pool
#2

Newspaper

Similarity 117Trust 97Excellent 100

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

15K starsMay 13, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler
$ npx skills add codelucas/newspaper
#3

JMComic Crawler Python

Similarity 115Trust 95Excellent 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🚀

6.0K starsJun 11, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler
$ npx skills add hect0x7/JMComic-Crawler-Python
#4

NewPipeExtractor

Similarity 115Trust 94Excellent 100

NewPipe's core library for extracting data from streaming sites

1.9K starsJun 13, 2026 pushweb-automationJavaCrawler
$ npx skills add TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor
#5

Scrapy Redis

Similarity 115Trust 94Excellent 100

Redis-based components for Scrapy.

5.6K starsMay 19, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler
$ npx skills add rmax/scrapy-redis
#6

Diskover Community

Similarity 114Trust 94Excellent 98

Diskover Community Edition - Open source file indexer, file search engine and data management and analytics powered by Elasticsearch

1.8K starsMar 25, 2026 pushweb-automationPHPCrawler
$ npx skills add diskoverdata/diskover-community
#7

Fscrawler

Similarity 114Trust 93Excellent 100

Elasticsearch File System Crawler (FS Crawler)

1.4K starsJun 12, 2026 pushweb-automationJavaCrawler
$ npx skills add dadoonet/fscrawler
#8

Python

Similarity 114Trust 88Excellent 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
#9

TorCrawl.Py

Similarity 114Trust 84Strong 84

Crawl and extract (regular or onion) webpages through TOR network

520 starsJun 8, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler
$ npx skills add MikeMeliz/TorCrawl.py
#10

Fess

Similarity 114Trust 92Excellent 100

Fess is very powerful and easily deployable Enterprise Search Server.

1.1K starsJun 11, 2026 pushweb-automationJavaCrawler
$ npx skills add codelibs/fess
#11

Feapder

Similarity 113Trust 91Excellent 100

🚀🚀🚀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
#12

Toapi

Similarity 113Trust 90Excellent 100

Every web site provides APIs.

3.6K starsJun 4, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler
$ npx skills add elliotgao2/toapi
#13

MyGPTReader

Similarity 113Trust 90Excellent 98

A community-driven way to read and chat with AI bots - powered by chatGPT.

4.4K starsFeb 5, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler
$ npx skills add myreader-io/myGPTReader
#14

FinalRecon

Similarity 113Trust 90Excellent 100

All In One Web Recon

2.8K starsJun 1, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler
$ npx skills add thewhiteh4t/FinalRecon
#15

Videodl

Similarity 113Trust 92Excellent 100

Videodl: A lightweight video downloader written in pure python. (轻量级视频下载器,优先高清无水印,支持抖音,快手,小红书,B站,TikTok,YouTube,FIFA+,优酷,腾讯,爱奇艺,1905电影网,乐视,芒果,咪咕,PPTV,搜狐,Facebook,Twitter,新浪微博,今日头条,网易公开课,全民K歌,CCTV央视频,酷狗音乐MV,新片场,知乎,百度贴吧,TED等海量流媒体平台)

2.3K starsJun 13, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler
$ npx skills add CharlesPikachu/videodl
#16

WechatSogou

Similarity 113Trust 89Excellent 93

基于搜狗微信搜索的微信公众号爬虫接口

6.3K starsMar 7, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler
$ npx skills add chyroc/WechatSogou

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