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Web Scraping Tools - JSON

Web scraping tools are software and libraries for automatically collecting structured data from websites on the internet. Various tools exist to accommodate different approaches and use cases, from static HTML parsing to dynamic JavaScript rendering and browser automation. Implemented in multiple programming languages including Python, JavaScript, and Java, they are widely used for everything from small-scale data collection to large-scale crawling projects.

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  {
    "code": "01",
    "slug": "scrapy",
    "name": "Scrapy",
    "description": "A high-level Python web crawling and scraping framework",
    "language": "Python",
    "type": "Framework",
    "javascriptSupport": false,
    "officialUrl": "https://scrapy.org/",
    "githubUrl": "https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy"
  },
  {
    "code": "02",
    "slug": "beautifulsoup",
    "name": "BeautifulSoup",
    "description": "A Python library for parsing HTML and XML documents",
    "language": "Python",
    "type": "Library",
    "javascriptSupport": false,
    "officialUrl": "https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/",
    "githubUrl": null
  },
  {
    "code": "03",
    "slug": "selenium",
    "name": "Selenium",
    "description": "A cross-platform tool for browser automation",
    "language": "Multi-language",
    "type": "Framework",
    "javascriptSupport": true,
    "officialUrl": "https://www.selenium.dev/",
    "githubUrl": "https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium"
  },
  {
    "code": "04",
    "slug": "playwright",
    "name": "Playwright",
    "description": "Microsoft's end-to-end testing and automation framework",
    "language": "Multi-language",
    "type": "Framework",
    "javascriptSupport": true,
    "officialUrl": "https://playwright.dev/",
    "githubUrl": "https://github.com/microsoft/playwright"
  },
  {
    "code": "05",
    "slug": "puppeteer",
    "name": "Puppeteer",
    "description": "Google's Node.js library for Chrome and Firefox automation",
    "language": "JavaScript/Node.js",
    "type": "Library",
    "javascriptSupport": true,
    "officialUrl": "https://pptr.dev/",
    "githubUrl": "https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer"
  },
  {
    "code": "06",
    "slug": "octoparse",
    "name": "Octoparse",
    "description": "A no-code visual web scraping tool",
    "language": "N/A",
    "type": "No-code Tool",
    "javascriptSupport": true,
    "officialUrl": "https://www.octoparse.com/",
    "githubUrl": null
  },
  {
    "code": "07",
    "slug": "apify",
    "name": "Apify",
    "description": "A cloud-based web scraping and automation platform",
    "language": "JavaScript/Node.js",
    "type": "Cloud Platform",
    "javascriptSupport": true,
    "officialUrl": "https://apify.com/",
    "githubUrl": "https://github.com/apify"
  },
  {
    "code": "08",
    "slug": "parsehub",
    "name": "ParseHub",
    "description": "A machine learning-powered cloud-based scraping tool",
    "language": "N/A",
    "type": "Cloud Tool",
    "javascriptSupport": true,
    "officialUrl": "https://www.parsehub.com/",
    "githubUrl": null
  }
]