Web scraping tools here means libraries and drivers you run yourself — parsers, crawlers, HTTP clients, and browser automation — not hosted SaaS. Alphabetical list below. For proxies and commercial APIs, see web scraping companies.

How stacks usually fit

Parsers (Soup, Cheerio, lxml) work on HTML you already fetched; frameworks (Scrapy, Colly) coordinate many URLs; Playwright/Puppeteer/Selenium run when you need a real browser. Mix HTTPX + parser for cheap paths, and browsers only where JavaScript or interaction demands it. Production often still needs proxies and rate discipline — see vendors — or a managed build on web scraping services.

Projects (external links)

Alphabetical; check each project for license and docs.

Beautiful Soup

Python library for parsing HTML/XML and navigating the parse tree.

Cheerio

Fast, jQuery-like server-side HTML parsing for Node.js.

Colly

Elegant scraping framework for Go — crawling, callbacks, rate limits.

HTTPX

Modern Python HTTP client — sync/async, HTTP/2, useful alongside parsers.

lxml

Fast XML/HTML processing for Python (often paired with Scrapy or Beautiful Soup).

Playwright

Cross-browser automation (Chromium, Firefox, WebKit) with solid scraping workflows.

Puppeteer

Node.js API to control Chrome/Chromium — rendering and interaction.

Scrapy

Python framework for crawling, pipelines, and structured extraction at scale.

Selenium

Browser automation across languages; common for dynamic sites and testing.

Frequently asked questions

Beautiful Soup or Scrapy?

Soup for small scripts; Scrapy for crawling at scale with pipelines.

Playwright or Selenium?

Both automate browsers; choose based on language support and what your team already runs in CI.

When skip the browser?

When a plain HTTP GET returns the fields you need without client-side rendering — use HTTPX plus a parser and save headless runs for the rest.

Custom scraping with Zenovah

Discovery, production pipelines, Excel and API delivery — without you maintaining the toolchain alone.

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