Crawlee Has a Free Web Scraping Framework — Production-Grade Scrapers in TypeScript

Crawlee is a production-ready web scraping and crawling library for Node.js.

What You Get for Free

• Multiple crawlers — Cheerio (fast HTML), Playwright (JS rendering), Puppeteer
• Auto-scaling — adjusts concurrency based on system resources
• Proxy rotation — built-in proxy management with session tracking
• Request queuing — persistent queue, handles millions of URLs
• Anti-blocking — fingerprint randomization, human-like behavior
• Data storage — built-in dataset and key-value store
• Error handling — automatic retries with exponential backoff
• TypeScript-first — full type safety
• Apify integration — deploy to Apify cloud with one command

Quick Start

npx crawlee create my-crawler
cd my-crawler && npm start

import { PlaywrightCrawler } from 'crawlee';

const crawler = new PlaywrightCrawler({
  async requestHandler({ page, request, enqueueLinks }) {
    const title = await page.title();
    const price = await page.$eval('.price', el => el.textContent);

    await Dataset.pushData({ url: request.url, title, price });
    await enqueueLinks({ globs: ['https://example.com/products/*'] });
  },
  maxRequestsPerCrawl: 1000,
});

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

Why Developers Choose It Over Scrapy

Scrapy is Python-only and complex. Crawlee:

• TypeScript — type safety, modern async/await
• Playwright built-in — no separate browser setup
• Anti-blocking — fingerprint rotation included
• Apify cloud — deploy and scale with one command

A data team maintained 15 Scrapy spiders with custom retry logic, proxy rotation, and error handling. They rewrote them in Crawlee — anti-blocking and retries are built in, proxy rotation is automatic, and TypeScript caught bugs at compile time.

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