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Scrape, clean, and reuse web data

Web data pipeline stack

A practical stack for agents that crawl public pages, extract clean content, normalize data, and hand it to downstream research or RAG workflows.

Built for Growth, research, and data teams building repeatable web collection workflows.

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Outcomes

  • Collect target URLs
  • Extract structured content
  • Normalize messy pages
  • Feed downstream reports

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How the stack fits together

01

Crawl

Start with a crawler or browser skill that can discover and fetch target pages.

02

Extract

Use extraction skills to turn HTML, tables, and page metadata into structured text.

03

Validate

Add checks for freshness, duplicates, blocked pages, and schema consistency.

04

Reuse

Send clean output into reports, databases, or knowledge-base ingestion.

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Ranked by workflow relevance, quality score, GitHub adoption, and maintenance freshness.

#1FirecrawlExcellent · 100

🔥 Search, scrape, and clean the web for AI agents.

123K starsAGPL-3.0agent-frameworks
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$ npx skills add firecrawl/firecrawl
#2Crawlee PythonExcellent · 100

Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Python to build reliable crawlers. Extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG, or GPTs. Download HTML, PDF, JPG, PNG, and other files from websites. Works with Parsel, BeautifulSoup, Playwright, and raw HTTP. Both headful and headless mode. With proxy rotation.

9.1K starsApache-2.0web-automation
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$ npx skills add apify/crawlee-python
#3WaterCrawlExcellent · 93

Transform Web Content into LLM-Ready Data

1.8K starsUnknownweb-automation
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$ npx skills add watercrawl/WaterCrawl
#4Crawl4AIExcellent · 100

Open-source LLM-friendly web crawler and scraper

66K starsApache-2.0web-automation
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$ npx skills add unclecode/crawl4ai
#5GoogleScraperStrong · 75

A Python module to scrape several search engines (like Google, Yandex, Bing, Duckduckgo, ...). Including asynchronous networking support.

2.8K starsApache-2.0web-automation
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$ npx skills add NikolaiT/GoogleScraper
#6LuxExcellent · 100

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

31K starsMITweb-automation
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$ npx skills add iawia002/lux
#7CollyExcellent · 100

Elegant Scraper and Crawler Framework for Golang

25K starsApache-2.0web-automation
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$ npx skills add gocolly/colly
#8ReaderStrong · 84

Open source web infrastructure for AI. Scrape, crawl, and automate the web, clean markdown, browser sessions, ready for your agents.

529 starsApache-2.0agent-frameworks
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$ npx skills add vakra-dev/reader

Ideal for

  • - Competitor monitoring
  • - Lead enrichment
  • - Dataset collection
  • - RAG ingestion

Avoid when

  • - You need private site access without consent
  • - The workflow depends on brittle one-off scraping rules