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Helium alternatives for AI agents.

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

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#1

OpenWPM

Similarity 122Trust 100Excellent 92

A web privacy measurement framework

1.4K starsMay 17, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler
$ npx skills add openwpm/OpenWPM
#2

Scweet

Similarity 121Trust 100Excellent 100

Scrape tweets, profiles, followers and following from Twitter/X, no API key needed. Python library with smart multi-account pooling, proxy support and async.

1.5K starsMay 19, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonWeb Automation
$ npx skills add Altimis/Scweet
#3

Scrapling

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 100

Adaptive web scraping for agent data collection

54K starsMay 18, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonWeb Automation
$ npx skills add D4Vinci/Scrapling
#4

Changedetection.Io

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 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
#5

Trafilatura

Similarity 116Trust 100Excellent 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 6, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonWeb Automation
$ npx skills add adbar/trafilatura
#6

Curl Cffi

Similarity 116Trust 100Excellent 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
#7

Selectolax

Similarity 116Trust 100Excellent 100

Python binding to Modest and Lexbor engines. Fast HTML5 parser with CSS selectors for Python.

1.6K starsMay 26, 2026 pushweb-automationCythonWeb Automation
$ npx skills add rushter/selectolax
#8

Snoop

Similarity 115Trust 100Excellent 100

Snoop — инструмент разведки на основе открытых данных (OSINT world)

3.9K starsMay 27, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonWeb Automation
$ npx skills add snooppr/snoop
#9

Amazon Scraper

Similarity 115Trust 100Excellent 100

Free Trial Amazon Scraper API for extracting search, product, offer listing, reviews, question and answers, best sellers and sellers data.

3.0K starsJun 8, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonWeb Automation
$ npx skills add oxylabs/amazon-scraper
#10

Scrapy

Similarity 113Trust 100Excellent 100

High-throughput crawling and scraping for agent data pipelines

62K starsJun 8, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler
$ npx skills add scrapy/scrapy
#11

Proxy Pool

Similarity 112Trust 100Excellent 100

Python ProxyPool for web spider

23K starsJun 3, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler
$ npx skills add jhao104/proxy_pool
#12

AI Website Cloner Template

Similarity 112Trust 100Excellent 100

Clone any website with one command using AI coding agents

16K starsJun 1, 2026 pushweb-automationTypeScriptWeb Automation
$ npx skills add JCodesMore/ai-website-cloner-template
#13

Newspaper

Similarity 111Trust 100Excellent 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
#14

Photon

Similarity 111Trust 100Excellent 98

Incredibly fast crawler designed for OSINT.

13K starsFeb 10, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler
$ npx skills add s0md3v/Photon
#15

ScrapeGraphAI

Similarity 110Trust 100Excellent 100

Extract web data with LLM-guided scraping graphs

27K starsJun 5, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonLLM
$ npx skills add ScrapeGraphAI/Scrapegraph-ai
#16

Awesome Web Scraping

Similarity 110Trust 100Excellent 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

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