Alternatives

Spidr alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Spidr

A versatile Ruby web spidering library that can spider a site, multiple domains, certain links or infinitely. Spidr is designed to be fast and easy to use.

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#1

Awesome Crawler

Similarity 135Trust 85Strong 79

A collection of awesome web crawler,spider in different languages

7.2K starsJun 16, 2024 pushweb-automationCrawlerClaude Code
$ npx skills add BruceDone/awesome-crawler
#2

Kimuraframework

Similarity 133Trust 86Excellent 92

Write web scrapers in Ruby using a clean, AI-assisted DSL. Kimurai uses AI to figure out where the data lives, then caches the selectors and scrapes with pure Ruby. Get the intelligence of an LLM without the per-request latency or token costs.

1.1K starsJan 27, 2026 pushweb-automationRubyCrawler
$ npx skills add vifreefly/kimuraframework
#3

Colly

Similarity 128Trust 96Excellent 100

Elegant Scraper and Crawler Framework for Golang

25K starsMay 25, 2026 pushweb-automationGoCrawler
$ npx skills add gocolly/colly
#4

Wombat

Similarity 127Trust 93Excellent 97

Lightweight Ruby web crawler/scraper with an elegant DSL which extracts structured data from pages.

1.4K starsApr 7, 2026 pushweb-automationRubyCrawler
$ npx skills add felipecsl/wombat
#5

Toapi

Similarity 123Trust 90Excellent 100

Every web site provides APIs.

3.6K starsJun 4, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler
$ npx skills add elliotgao2/toapi
#6

QueryList

Similarity 123Trust 89Excellent 100

:spider: The progressive PHP crawler framework! 优雅的渐进式PHP采集框架。

2.7K starsJun 10, 2026 pushweb-automationPHPCrawler
$ npx skills add jae-jae/QueryList
#7

Spider Flow

Similarity 119Trust 83Strong 77

新一代爬虫平台,以图形化方式定义爬虫流程,不写代码即可完成爬虫。

11K starsJun 14, 2023 pushweb-automationJavaCrawler
$ npx skills add ssssssss-team/spider-flow
#8

Lux

Similarity 119Trust 91Excellent 100

👾 Fast and simple video download library and CLI tool written in Go

31K starsMar 29, 2026 pushweb-automationGoCrawler
$ npx skills add iawia002/lux
#9

Proxy Pool

Similarity 119Trust 94Excellent 100

Python ProxyPool for web spider

23K starsJun 9, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler
$ npx skills add jhao104/proxy_pool
#10

Newspaper

Similarity 119Trust 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
#11

Crawlab

Similarity 118Trust 94Excellent 100

Distributed web crawler admin platform for spiders management regardless of languages and frameworks. 分布式爬虫管理平台,支持任何语言和框架

12K starsFeb 10, 2026 pushweb-automationGoCrawler
$ npx skills add crawlab-team/crawlab
#12

Examples Of Web Crawlers

Similarity 118Trust 93Excellent 97

一些非常有趣的python爬虫例子,对新手比较友好,主要爬取淘宝、天猫、微信、微信读书、豆瓣、QQ等网站。(Some interesting examples of python crawlers that are friendly to beginners. )

15K starsJun 28, 2025 pushweb-automationHTMLCrawler
$ npx skills add shengqiangzhang/examples-of-web-crawlers
#13

Crawly

Similarity 117Trust 87Strong 84

Crawly, a high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Elixir.

1.1K starsJul 16, 2025 pushweb-automationElixirCrawler
$ npx skills add elixir-crawly/crawly
#14

Geziyor

Similarity 117Trust 87Strong 75

Geziyor, blazing fast web crawling & scraping framework for Go. Supports JS rendering.

2.8K starsApr 16, 2025 pushweb-automationGoCrawler
$ npx skills add geziyor/geziyor
#15

Node Crawler

Similarity 117Trust 95Excellent 100

Web Crawler/Spider for NodeJS + server-side jQuery ;-)

6.8K starsJun 4, 2026 pushweb-automationTypeScriptCrawler
$ npx skills add bda-research/node-crawler
#16

Xxl Crawler

Similarity 117Trust 86Excellent 86

A lightweight web crawler framework.(Java爬虫框架)

756 starsJun 13, 2026 pushweb-automationJavaCrawler
$ npx skills add xuxueli/xxl-crawler

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