Alternatives

Rod alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Rod

A Chrome DevTools Protocol driver for web automation and scraping.

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#1

Scrapy

Similarity 120Trust 95Excellent 100

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

62K starsJun 11, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonWeb Automation
$ npx skills add scrapy/scrapy
#2

Colly

Similarity 119Trust 95Excellent 100

Elegant Scraper and Crawler Framework for Golang

25K starsMay 25, 2026 pushweb-automationGoCrawler
$ npx skills add gocolly/colly
#3

Awesome Web Scraping

Similarity 117Trust 90Excellent 100

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
#4

Ferret

Similarity 116Trust 88Excellent 100

Declarative web scraping

6.0K starsJun 13, 2026 pushweb-automationGoCrawler
$ npx skills add MontFerret/ferret
#5

Skills

Similarity 115Trust 92Excellent 100

Browser automation CLI built for AI agents. Break through anti-bot walls, hand off to humans across platforms when stuck. Parallel multi-task execution, independent multi-session operation, isolated multi-account browsing.

2.4K starsJun 11, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonWeb Automation
$ npx skills add browser-act/skills
#6

Maxun

Similarity 113Trust 97Excellent 100

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

16K starsJun 11, 2026 pushweb-automationTypeScriptBrowser Automation
$ npx skills add getmaxun/maxun
#7

Changedetection.Io

Similarity 112Trust 98Excellent 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
#8

Pydoll

Similarity 111Trust 96Excellent 100

Pydoll is a library for automating chromium-based browsers without a WebDriver, offering realistic interactions.

6.9K starsMay 24, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonBrowser Automation
$ npx skills add autoscrape-labs/pydoll
#9

Scrapegraph AI

Similarity 111Trust 92Excellent 100

Python scraper based on AI

27K starsJun 15, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonWeb Automation
$ npx skills add ScrapeGraphAI/Scrapegraph-ai
#10

Scrapling

Similarity 110Trust 86Excellent 100

Adaptive web scraping for agent data collection

54K starsMay 18, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonWeb Automation
$ npx skills add D4Vinci/Scrapling
#11

Pinchtab

Similarity 110Trust 96Excellent 100

High-performance browser automation bridge and multi-instance orchestrator with advanced stealth injection and real-time dashboard.

9.2K starsJun 9, 2026 pushweb-automationGoBrowser Automation
$ npx skills add pinchtab/pinchtab
#12

Trafilatura

Similarity 109Trust 97Excellent 100

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

6.1K starsJun 10, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonWeb Automation
$ npx skills add adbar/trafilatura
#13

Curl Cffi

Similarity 109Trust 96Excellent 100

Python binding for curl-impersonate fork via cffi. A http client that can impersonate browser tls/ja3/http2 fingerprints.

5.8K starsJun 7, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonWeb Automation
$ npx skills add lexiforest/curl_cffi
#14

Helium

Similarity 109Trust 89Excellent 100

Lighter web automation with Python

8.3K starsJun 3, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonWeb Automation
$ npx skills add mherrmann/helium
#15

Cariddi

Similarity 108Trust 95Excellent 100

Take a list of domains, crawl urls and scan for endpoints, secrets, api keys, file extensions, tokens and more

3.4K starsMay 27, 2026 pushweb-automationGoCrawler
$ npx skills add edoardottt/cariddi
#16

VirtualBrowser

Similarity 108Trust 95Excellent 100

Free anti fingerprint browser, 指纹浏览器, 隐私浏览器, 防识别浏览器, 反识别浏览器, 防关联浏览器, 免费的web3空投专用指纹浏览器 https://virtualbrowser.cc/?src=github

2.9K starsMay 17, 2026 pushweb-automationVueWeb Automation
$ npx skills add Virtual-Browser/VirtualBrowser

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