The Complete Web Scraping Toolkit: 15 Free Node.js Tools

Here are 15 tools I use daily for web scraping.

Parsing

1. Cheerio — jQuery-like HTML parsing
2. xml2js — XML/RSS feeds
3. csv-parser — CSV files

Browser

1. Playwright — best browser automation
2. Puppeteer — Chrome automation

HTTP

1. fetch — built into Node 18+
2. got — retries + proxy support

Output

1. xlsx — create Excel files
2. json2csv — JSON to CSV
3. fs — write JSON files

Cloud

1. Apify SDK — deploy to cloud
2. node-cron — scheduling

Anti-Detection

1. User-Agent rotation
2. Random delays
3. Proxy agents

All used in my 77 scrapers.

Guides

• Cheerio Cheat Sheet
• Playwright Guide
• Beginner Template

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