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Katana alternatives for AI agents.

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

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A next-generation crawling and spidering framework.

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Colly

Similarity 134Trust 100Excellent 100

Elegant Scraper and Crawler Framework for Golang

25K starsMay 25, 2026 pushweb-automationGoCrawler
$ npx skills add gocolly/colly
#2

Ferret

Similarity 132Trust 100Excellent 100

Declarative web scraping

6.0K starsJun 10, 2026 pushweb-automationGoCrawler
$ npx skills add MontFerret/ferret
#3

Cariddi

Similarity 131Trust 100Excellent 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
#4

Goclone

Similarity 130Trust 100Excellent 100

Website Cloner - Utilizes powerful Go routines to clone websites to your computer within seconds.

2.1K starsJun 2, 2026 pushweb-automationGoCrawler
$ npx skills add goclone-dev/goclone
#5

Lux

Similarity 127Trust 100Excellent 100

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

31K starsMar 29, 2026 pushweb-automationGoCrawler
$ npx skills add iawia002/lux
#6

Crawlab

Similarity 125Trust 100Excellent 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
#7

Crawler Detect

Similarity 124Trust 100Excellent 100

🕷 CrawlerDetect is a PHP class for detecting bots/crawlers/spiders via the user agent

2.4K starsMay 26, 2026 pushweb-automationPHPCrawler
$ npx skills add JayBizzle/Crawler-Detect
#8

Proxy Pool

Similarity 120Trust 100Excellent 100

Python ProxyPool for web spider

23K starsJun 3, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler
$ npx skills add jhao104/proxy_pool
#9

Newspaper

Similarity 119Trust 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
#10

Photon

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 98

Incredibly fast crawler designed for OSINT.

13K starsFeb 10, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler
$ npx skills add s0md3v/Photon
#11

Webmagic

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 98

A scalable web crawler framework for Java.

12K starsDec 20, 2025 pushweb-automationJavaCrawler
$ npx skills add code4craft/webmagic
#12

Wiseflow

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 100

为你 7*24 在线搞钱的“云上牛马”团队

8.2K starsJun 5, 2026 pushweb-automationTypeScriptCrawler
$ npx skills add TeamWiseFlow/wiseflow
#13

Node Crawler

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 100

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

6.8K starsJun 4, 2026 pushweb-automationTypeScriptCrawler
$ npx skills add bda-research/node-crawler
#14

Python

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 96

Python脚本。模拟登录知乎， 爬虫，操作excel，微信公众号，远程开机

11K starsMay 9, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler
$ npx skills add injetlee/Python
#15

JMComic Crawler Python

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 100

Python API for JMComic | 提供Python API访问禁漫天堂，同时支持网页端和移动端 | 禁漫天堂GitHub Actions下载器🚀

5.9K starsMay 19, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler
$ npx skills add hect0x7/JMComic-Crawler-Python
#16

Scrapy Redis

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 100

Redis-based components for Scrapy.

5.6K starsMay 19, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler
$ npx skills add rmax/scrapy-redis

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