Crawlee Has a Free Web Scraping Framework — Build Reliable Scrapers with Anti-Blocking

Crawlee is a web scraping and browser automation framework by Apify — build reliable crawlers with automatic anti-blocking.

What You Get for Free

• Auto-rotation — proxy rotation, browser fingerprinting
• Request queue — resume-able crawling with persistence
• Auto-scaling — adjusts concurrency based on system resources
• Multiple crawlers — HTTP (Cheerio/JSDOM), Browser (Playwright/Puppeteer)
• Session management — maintain cookies across requests
• Error handling — automatic retries with exponential backoff
• Storage — datasets and key-value stores for results
• TypeScript — full type safety
• Apify integration — deploy crawlers to Apify cloud

Quick Start

npx crawlee create my-crawler

import { PlaywrightCrawler } from 'crawlee'

const crawler = new PlaywrightCrawler({
  async requestHandler({ page, request, enqueueLinks }) {
    const title = await page.title()
    const data = await page.$$eval('.product', els =>
      els.map(el => ({
        name: el.querySelector('h2')?.textContent,
        price: el.querySelector('.price')?.textContent,
      }))
    )
    await Dataset.pushData(data)
    await enqueueLinks({ globs: ['https://example.com/products/*'] })
  },
  maxRequestsPerCrawl: 100,
})

await crawler.run(['https://example.com/products'])

Why Developers Switch from Scrapy/Puppeteer

Scrapy can't handle JavaScript, Puppeteer has no built-in queue or storage:

• Auto anti-blocking — fingerprint rotation, session management
• Browser + HTTP — use Playwright for JS sites, Cheerio for static
• Persistent queue — resume crawls after crashes
• Type-safe — TypeScript prevents common scraping bugs

A scraping project using raw Puppeteer got blocked after 200 requests. After Crawlee: same target, 50K requests, auto-proxy rotation and fingerprint management — zero blocks.

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