Crawlee

aid: crawlee
name: Crawlee
kind: opensource
description: Crawlee is an open-source web scraping and crawling library maintained by Apify, providing a unified set of crawler
  classes, request queues, datasets, and key-value stores for building reliable scrapers. It is available for both JavaScript/TypeScript
  (Node.js) and Python, offering HTTP, Cheerio, JSDOM, LinkeDOM, Puppeteer, Playwright, and Stagehand crawler implementations
  along with proxy and session management utilities for production-grade scraping.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/crawlee/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/crawlee.png
tags:
- Apache 2.0
- Apify
- Browser Automation
- Crawlers
- Harvesting
- JavaScript
- Node.js
- Open-Source
- Playwright
- Puppeteer
- Python
- Scraping
- Web
tags_raw:
- Apache 2.0
- Apify
- Browser Automation
- Crawlers
- Harvesting
- JavaScript
- Node.js
- Open Source
- Playwright
- Puppeteer
- Python
- Scraping
- Web
created: '2025-02-08'
modified: '2026-04-28'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
type: Index
access: Public
position: Provider
apis:
- aid: crawlee:crawlee-javascript-sdk
  name: Crawlee JavaScript SDK
  description: 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.
  humanURL: https://crawlee.dev/js
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crawlee.dev/js
  - type: Reference
    url: https://crawlee.dev/js/api
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://crawlee.dev/js/docs/quick-start
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/apify/crawlee
  - type: NpmPackage
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/crawlee
  tags:
  - Browser Automation
  - Cheerio
  - JavaScript
  - Node.js
  - Playwright
  - Puppeteer
  - Scraping
  - TypeScript
- aid: crawlee:crawlee-python-sdk
  name: Crawlee Python SDK
  description: The Crawlee Python SDK is a Python library for building reliable web scrapers and crawlers. It offers BasicCrawler,
    HttpCrawler, BeautifulSoupCrawler, ParselCrawler, PlaywrightCrawler, and Adaptive crawlers built on top of asyncio, along
    with shared infrastructure for proxy rotation, session pooling, RequestQueue, Dataset, and KeyValueStore. The Python SDK
    targets data engineers and Python developers who want the same crawler ergonomics as the JavaScript version but inside
    the Python ecosystem.
  humanURL: https://crawlee.dev/python
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crawlee.dev/python
  - type: Reference
    url: https://crawlee.dev/python/api
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://crawlee.dev/python/docs/quick-start
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/apify/crawlee-python
  - type: PyPiPackage
    url: https://pypi.org/project/crawlee/
  tags:
  - Async I/O
  - BeautifulSoup
  - Browser Automation
  - Parsel
  - Playwright
  - Python
  - Scraping
  tags_raw:
  - Asyncio
  - BeautifulSoup
  - Browser Automation
  - Parsel
  - Playwright
  - Python
  - Scraping
common:
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/apify/crawlee/issues
- type: ContributionGuide
  url: https://github.com/apify/crawlee/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/crawlee-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/apify
- type: Website
  url: https://crawlee.dev/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://crawlee.dev/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/apify
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/apify/crawlee
- type: Blog
  url: https://crawlee.dev/blog
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://github.com/apify/crawlee/releases
- type: Discord
  url: https://discord.gg/jyEM2PRvMU
- type: Community
  url: https://crawlee.dev/discord
- type: License
  url: https://github.com/apify/crawlee/blob/master/LICENSE.md
- type: Apify
  url: https://apify.com/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com