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Ben Balter sitemap-parser

Simple Sitemaps.org XML Parsing For Ruby

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Ruby parser for sitemaps.org-compliant XML sitemaps; a recurse option flattens nested indexes into one URL list returned by to_a.

TurnerSoftware SitemapTools

Discover And Parse A Domain's Sitemaps In C#

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C# library whose GetAllSitemapsForDomainAsync() takes a domain and discovers plus parses all its sitemaps, with lenient parsing for messy real-world files.

VIPnytt SitemapParser

Recursive Sitemap Parsing For PHP

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PHP library with parse() and parseRecursive() APIs; parseRecursive on a robots.txt URL walks every nested sitemap for a URL list.

Crawler-Commons

Sitemap and Robots.txt Parsing for Java

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Java library with a SAX-based sitemap parser for sitemaps, indexes, extensions, and feeds; you supply the bytes and it parses and normalizes them.

gopher-parse-sitemap

Zero-Dependency Streaming Sitemap Parser In Go

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Streaming Go parser for huge XML sitemaps with minimal memory and no external dependencies, consuming entries on the fly via callbacks.

go-sitemap-parser

Resolve Robots, Indexes, And Sitemaps In Go

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Go library whose Parse() accepts a robots.txt, sitemap index, or plain sitemap URL and resolves the rest, with concurrent fetching and depth limits.

sitemap-stream-parser

Stream Very Large Sitemaps With Low Memory

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Streaming Node.js XML sitemap parser for very large, deeply nested sitemaps, with a callback API and a helper that finds sitemaps in robots.txt.

Sitemapper

Parse Sitemaps And Indexes In Node.js

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Node.js library that parses a sitemap URL including sitemap indexes with many child sitemaps, with concurrency, retries, timeout, and proxy options.

Ultimate Sitemap Parser

Auto-Discover And Parse Sitemaps In Python

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Python library that finds a site's sitemaps from robots.txt and common paths, recurses sitemap indexes, and streams pages with low memory.

Requests-HTML

Python Requests With HTML Parsing

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Python library combining HTTP requests, HTML parsing, CSS selectors, and optional JavaScript rendering for scraping workflows.

pyquery

jQuery-Style HTML Parsing For Python

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Python library that applies a jQuery-style API to HTML and XML documents for selection, traversal, and extraction.

Helium

Readable Selenium Automation For Python

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Python browser automation library that wraps Selenium with a higher-level API for clicking, typing, and finding visible elements.

AutoScraper

Example-Based HTML Extraction For Python

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Python library that learns simple scraping rules from example values and extracts similar data from HTML pages.

Pyppeteer

Unmaintained Python Port of Puppeteer

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Python port of Puppeteer for Chrome and Chromium automation. Its maintainers mark the repository as unmaintained and suggest Playwright Python.

pgvector

Add Vector Search To PostgreSQL

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Open-source PostgreSQL extension for vector similarity search that keeps embeddings and scraped data in the same database.

jsoup

Parse Real-World HTML In Java

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A Java library for parsing real-world HTML into a standards-based DOM with CSS selectors and DOM traversal.

lxml

Fast XML And HTML Parsing For Python

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A fast Python library for parsing XML and HTML, often used as a foundation for scraping and data tools.

ScraperAPI

Scale data collection with a simple API

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ScraperAPI handles proxy rotation, browsers, and CAPTCHAs so developers can scrape any public page with a single API call at scale.

ScrapingBee

Web scraping API with proxy and browser handling

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ScrapingBee is a web scraping API that handles headless browsers, rotates proxies, and offers AI-powered extraction so you can focus on your data.

DataForSEO

Comprehensive API Stack for SEO and Marketing Data

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DataForSEO provides SEO and digital marketing data via API, serving as a trusted data partner for 750+ software companies and agencies worldwide.

CapSolver

AI-powered automatic CAPTCHA solving service

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CapSolver is an AI-powered CAPTCHA solver that automatically bypasses reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare, AWS WAF, and other challenges for automation.

Oxylabs

Premium proxy service for data at scale

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Oxylabs offers 175M+ residential and datacenter proxies with web scraping APIs and browser automation tools for large-scale public data extraction.

SerpAPI

Real-Time Google Search Results API

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SerpAPI is a real-time API that delivers structured Google search results, handling proxies, captchas, and rich data parsing automatically.

Apify

Full-stack web scraping and data extraction platform

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Apify is a cloud platform for web scraping, browser automation, and data extraction with an Actor marketplace and developer SDKs.

BeautifulSoup

Python library for parsing HTML and XML

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Beautiful Soup is a Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files, providing Pythonic idioms for navigating and searching parse trees.

2Captcha

CAPTCHA solving service with API integration

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2Captcha is a CAPTCHA solving service that bypasses reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile, hCaptcha, and other challenges via a simple API.

Zendriver

Async-first undetected browser automation

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Zendriver is a fast, async-first undetected browser automation framework based on nodriver with Docker support for scalable scraping.

Scrapy Cluster

Distributed on-demand scraping with Scrapy

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Scrapy Cluster uses Redis and Kafka to create a distributed, on-demand Scrapy crawling cluster for coordinated large-scale web scraping. Its repository is archived.

Frontera

Scalable crawl frontier framework

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Frontera is a Python crawl frontier framework for managing when and what to crawl, enabling web crawlers of any scale with Scrapy integration.

Patchright

Undetected Playwright fork for bot evasion

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Patchright is a patched fork of Playwright that evades bot detection with a Playwright-style API and documented compatibility limits.

Meltano

CLI-First ELT Engine Built on Singer

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Meltano is an open-source, CLI-first ELT platform with 600+ connectors, GitOps workflows, and native dbt integration for data pipeline management.

Scrapoxy

End-of-life proxy orchestration project

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Scrapoxy is an open-source proxy orchestration project that reached End of Life as announced on scrapoxy.io, so it is historical context rather than a new-deployment choice.

BeeAI Framework

Production-Ready AI Agent Framework

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BeeAI Framework is an open-source platform for building production-ready multi-agent systems in Python and TypeScript with MCP and workflow support.

Nutch

Highly extensible and scalable web crawler

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Apache Nutch is a highly extensible, production-ready web crawler built on Hadoop for large-scale batch crawling and data acquisition tasks.

Heritrix

Web-scale archival web crawler

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Heritrix is the Internet Archive's open-source, extensible, archival-quality web crawler designed for large-scale web preservation and data collection.

Nodriver

Undetected browser automation without Selenium

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Nodriver is the successor to undetected-chromedriver, providing fast CDP-based browser automation with built-in anti-detection and no Selenium dependency.