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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 getmaxun/maxun#5
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$ npx skills add dgtlmoon/changedetection.io#6
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$ npx skills add autoscrape-labs/pydoll#8
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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
Lightpanda: the headless browser designed for AI and automation
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$ npx skills add lightpanda-io/browser#12
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$ npx skills add oxylabs/how-to-scrape-amazon-product-data#13
newspaper3k is a news, full-text, and article metadata extraction in Python 3. Advanced docs:
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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
👾 Fast and simple video download library and CLI tool written in Go
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A next-generation crawling and spidering framework.
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