Alternatives

Katana alternatives for AI agents.

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A next-generation crawling and spidering framework.

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#1

Colly

Similarity 132Trust 88Excellent 100

Elegant Scraper and Crawler Framework for Golang

25K starsJun 18, 2026 pushweb-automationGoCrawler
$ npx skills add gocolly/colly
#2

Lux

Similarity 124Trust 83Excellent 100

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

31K starsMar 29, 2026 pushweb-automationGoCrawler
$ npx skills add iawia002/lux
#3

Proxy Pool

Similarity 118Trust 87Excellent 100

Python ProxyPool for web spider

23K starsJun 9, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler
$ npx skills add jhao104/proxy_pool
#4

Newspaper

Similarity 118Trust 90Excellent 100

newspaper3k is a news, full-text, and article metadata extraction in Python 3. Advanced docs:

15K starsJul 8, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler
$ npx skills add codelucas/newspaper
#5

Wiseflow

Similarity 114Trust 84Excellent 94

为所有人准备的AI搞钱团队,帮你把经验和方法跑成一门生意。

8.3K starsJun 5, 2026 pushweb-automationTypeScriptCrawler
$ npx skills add TeamWiseFlow/wiseflow
#6

Scrapy

Similarity 113Trust 88Excellent 100

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

63K starsJun 25, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonWeb Automation
$ npx skills add scrapy/scrapy
#7

EasySpider

Similarity 111Trust 89Excellent 100

A visual no-code/code-free web crawler/spider易采集:一个可视化浏览器自动化测试/数据采集/网页爬虫软件,可以无代码图形化的设计和执行爬虫任务。别名:ServiceWrapper面向Web应用的智能化服务封装系统。

44K starsMay 22, 2026 pushweb-automationJavaScriptCrawler
$ npx skills add NaiboWang/EasySpider
#8

Scrapegraph AI

Similarity 104Trust 88Excellent 100

Python scraper based on AI

27K starsJun 15, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonWeb Automation
$ npx skills add ScrapeGraphAI/Scrapegraph-ai
#9

Browser

Similarity 104Trust 86Excellent 100

Lightpanda: the headless browser designed for AI and automation

31K starsJun 19, 2026 pushweb-automationZigBrowser Automation
$ npx skills add lightpanda-io/browser
#10

Maxun

Similarity 104Trust 88Excellent 100

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

16K starsJul 2, 2026 pushweb-automationTypeScriptBrowser Automation
$ npx skills add getmaxun/maxun
#11

Pinchtab

Similarity 100Trust 87Excellent 99

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

9.3K starsJun 16, 2026 pushweb-automationGoBrowser Automation
$ npx skills add pinchtab/pinchtab
#12

Glow

Similarity 97Trust 83Excellent 100

Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻

26K starsApr 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingGoMarkdown
$ npx skills add charmbracelet/glow
#13

Changedetection.Io

Similarity 97Trust 90Excellent 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
#14

Crawl4AI

Similarity 97Trust 88Excellent 100

Open-source LLM-friendly web crawler and scraper

73K starsJul 15, 2026 pushweb-automationClaudeGPT-4
$ npx skills add unclecode/crawl4ai
#15

Scrapling

Similarity 96Trust 83Excellent 100

Adaptive web scraping for agent data collection

70K starsJul 15, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonWeb Automation
$ npx skills add D4Vinci/Scrapling
#16

Obscura

Similarity 95Trust 86Excellent 100

The headless browser for AI agents and web scraping

16K starsJun 18, 2026 pushweb-automationRustBrowser Automation
$ npx skills add h4ckf0r0day/obscura

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