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Browser Automation

Alternatives to Stagehand

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  • Commit continuity, contributor activity, and delivery signals are strong.
  • Health score: 96/100.
  • Shipping score: 95/100.

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Best overallFirecrawl

Highest organic ToolVitals fit for this use case.

Healthier optionsBrowser Use, Playwright, Scrapy, Lightpanda

Stronger current public-health signal than Stagehand.

Verified open/source-visibleFirecrawl, Browser Use, Playwright, Puppeteer

Useful when portability and inspectability matter.

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Best-fit browser automation options

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
Health97
Shipping96
Score97
Confidence90
Stars95.9k
ModeSource-visible project
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05

Scrapling

🕷️ An adaptive Web Scraping framework that handles everything from a single request to a full-scale crawl!

Active
Health95
Shipping95
Score95
Confidence90
Stars79.7k
ModeSource-visible project
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09

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
Health97
Shipping96
Score97
Confidence90
Stars25.7k
ModeSource-visible project
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11

Maxun

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

Active
Health97
Shipping96
Score96
Confidence90
Stars17.4k
ModeSource-visible project
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