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Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
63K starsJun 25, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonWeb Automation
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$ npx skills add lorien/awesome-web-scraping#5
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$ npx skills add getmaxun/maxun#6
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$ npx skills add dgtlmoon/changedetection.io#7
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$ npx skills add ScrapeGraphAI/Scrapegraph-ai#8
Adaptive web scraping for agent data collection
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$ npx skills add D4Vinci/Scrapling#9
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$ npx skills add pinchtab/pinchtab#10
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$ npx skills add adbar/trafilatura#11
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$ npx skills add mherrmann/helium#12
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$ npx skills add lightpanda-io/browser#13
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$ npx skills add codelucas/newspaper#14
The headless browser for AI agents and web scraping
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$ npx skills add h4ckf0r0day/obscura#15
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A next-generation crawling and spidering framework.
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