Crawlee vs Puppeteer vs Playwright — Which to Use for Web Scraping

After building 77 scrapers, here's my take:

Tool	Best For	Speed	Reliability
Crawlee	Complex sites with anti-bot	Medium	High
Puppeteer	Simple JS rendering	Fast	Medium
Playwright	Cross-browser testing + scraping	Fast	High
Cheerio	Static HTML parsing	Very fast	High
JSON API	Sites with hidden endpoints	Fastest	Highest

My recommendation: Start with JSON APIs and RSS. Use Cheerio for HTML. Playwright only as last resort.

77 scrapers using all these methods: GitHub

Custom scraping — $20: Payoneer