# Crawlee JavaScript SDK

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/crawlee/crawlee-javascript-sdk/  
**Provider:** Crawlee — https://apis.io/providers/crawlee/  
**Documentation:** https://crawlee.dev/js

Crawlee JavaScript SDK is one of 2 APIs that [Crawlee](https://apis.io/providers/crawlee/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Browser Automation, Cheerio, JavaScript, Node.js, and Playwright. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, a getting-started guide, and a GitHub repository.

The Crawlee JavaScript SDK is a Node.js/TypeScript library for building reliable web scrapers and crawlers. It provides a family of crawler classes - BasicCrawler, HttpCrawler, CheerioCrawler, JSDOMCrawler, LinkeDOMCrawler, PuppeteerCrawler, PlaywrightCrawler, and AdaptivePlaywrightCrawler - along with shared infrastructure for AutoscaledPool resource management, proxy rotation, session pooling, RequestQueue task queuing, Dataset result storage, and KeyValueStore unstructured data persistence. Crawlee handles retries, error recovery, request fingerprinting, and statistics tracking out of the box, allowing developers to focus on extraction logic.

## Machine-readable artifacts (6)

- **Documentation** — https://crawlee.dev/js
- **Reference** — https://crawlee.dev/js/api
- **GettingStarted** — https://crawlee.dev/js/docs/quick-start
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/apify/crawlee
- **NpmPackage** — https://www.npmjs.com/package/crawlee
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/crawlee/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Crawlee APIs (1)

- [Crawlee Python SDK](https://apis.io/apis/crawlee/crawlee-python-sdk/)

## Tags

Browser Automation, Cheerio, JavaScript, Node.js, Playwright, Puppeteer, Scraping, TypeScript

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