web scraping tools and apis
Recent window: last 5.4 months (2026-05-01 → 2026-10-11), compared with the prior 5.4 months.
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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Members
| 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 |