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web scraping tools and apis

Recent window: last 5.4 months (2026-05-01 → 2026-10-11), compared with the prior 5.4 months.

horizontal · 120 members · Data as of 2026-10-14

Web scraping tools and APIs allow developers and AI engineers to programmatically extract structured data from websites while handling anti-bot defenses, dynamic rendering, and proxy management. These solutions are built for technical teams and data scientists who require consistent, automated web data feeds without maintaining custom crawler infrastructure. Unlike broader browser automation or ETL platforms, this niche specifically targets bypass mechanisms and rapid transformation of raw web pages into clean formats like JSON and markdown.

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Name Source Upvotes ▲ Launched
Social Fetch PH 171 2026-07-07
UserAgent-list GITHUB 171 2026-09-18
Link Preview API PH 198 2026-07-08
Tabstack Structured Extraction PH 199 2026-06-11
Answers by Context.dev PH 199 2026-09-20
tweet.md PH 239 2026-05-25
Olostep PH 244 2026-08-30
Mindcase PH 246 2026-08-21
Firecrawl CLI PH 248 2026-03-11
Prometheus by Firecrawl PH 249 2026-06-13
xscrape GITHUB 255 2026-09-20
SCRAPR PH 259 2026-03-09
Context.dev PH 264 2026-03-22
ZooData PH 271 2026-07-18
BrowserAct Cloud PH 287 2026-08-14
I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes as RSS HN 320 2026-03-11
Tabstack Dev Tools PH 324 2026-06-18
HasData PH 438 2026-05-15
tiktok-web-signature GITHUB 712 2026-10-09
Context.dev PH 810 2026-07-02