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  • Commit continuity, contributor activity, and delivery signals are strong.
  • Health score: 92/100.
  • Shipping score: 94/100.

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Best overallBrowser Use

Highest organic ToolVitals fit for this use case.

Healthier optionsBrowser Use, Playwright, Puppeteer, Scrapy

Stronger current public-health signal than Browserless.

Verified open/source-visibleBrowser Use, Playwright, Puppeteer, Scrapy

Useful when portability and inspectability matter.

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12 tools
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Playwright

Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.

Active
Health96
Shipping94
Score95
Confidence90
Stars98.5k
ModeSource-visible project
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Crawlee

Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js to build reliable crawlers. In JavaScript and TypeScript. Extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG, or GPTs. Download HTML, PDF, JPG, PNG, and other files from websites. Works with Puppeteer, Playwright, Cheerio, JSDOM, and raw HTTP. Both headful and headless mode. With proxy rotation.

Active
Health96
Shipping93
Score95
Confidence90
Stars26.3k
ModeSource-visible project
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Maxun

🔥 The open-source no-code platform for web scraping, crawling, search and AI data extraction • Turn websites into structured APIs in minutes 🔥

Active
Health95
Shipping94
Score95
Confidence90
Stars18k
ModeSource-visible project
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