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Web Scraping Tools - TOML

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"
githubUrl = "https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy"
javascriptSupport = false
language = "Python"
officialUrl = "https://scrapy.org/"
type = "Framework"

[[items]]
code = "02"
slug = "beautifulsoup"
name = "BeautifulSoup"
description = "A Python library for parsing HTML and XML documents"
githubUrl = ""
javascriptSupport = false
language = "Python"
officialUrl = "https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/"
type = "Library"

[[items]]
code = "03"
slug = "selenium"
name = "Selenium"
description = "A cross-platform tool for browser automation"
githubUrl = "https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium"
javascriptSupport = true
language = "Multi-language"
officialUrl = "https://www.selenium.dev/"
type = "Framework"

[[items]]
code = "04"
slug = "playwright"
name = "Playwright"
description = "Microsoft's end-to-end testing and automation framework"
githubUrl = "https://github.com/microsoft/playwright"
javascriptSupport = true
language = "Multi-language"
officialUrl = "https://playwright.dev/"
type = "Framework"

[[items]]
code = "05"
slug = "puppeteer"
name = "Puppeteer"
description = "Google's Node.js library for Chrome and Firefox automation"
githubUrl = "https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer"
javascriptSupport = true
language = "JavaScript/Node.js"
officialUrl = "https://pptr.dev/"
type = "Library"

[[items]]
code = "06"
slug = "octoparse"
name = "Octoparse"
description = "A no-code visual web scraping tool"
githubUrl = ""
javascriptSupport = true
language = "N/A"
officialUrl = "https://www.octoparse.com/"
type = "No-code Tool"

[[items]]
code = "07"
slug = "apify"
name = "Apify"
description = "A cloud-based web scraping and automation platform"
githubUrl = "https://github.com/apify"
javascriptSupport = true
language = "JavaScript/Node.js"
officialUrl = "https://apify.com/"
type = "Cloud Platform"

[[items]]
code = "08"
slug = "parsehub"
name = "ParseHub"
description = "A machine learning-powered cloud-based scraping tool"
githubUrl = ""
javascriptSupport = true
language = "N/A"
officialUrl = "https://www.parsehub.com/"
type = "Cloud Tool"