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Alex Spinov
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Crawlee Has a Free API That Makes Web Scraping in Node.js Production-Ready

Crawlee is the scraping framework behind Apify: auto-retries, proxy rotation, request queuing, anti-bot evasion — all built in.

import { PlaywrightCrawler } from 'crawlee'
const crawler = new PlaywrightCrawler({
  async requestHandler({ page }) {
    const products = await page.$$eval('.product', cards =>
      cards.map(c => ({ name: c.querySelector('h2')?.textContent }))
    )
    await Dataset.pushData(products)
  }
})
await crawler.run(['https://example.com'])
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Production-ready scraping without months of infrastructure work.


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