jancurn

8 Show HNs that got attention, 2015 to 2026. 958 points in all, 6 with 50 or more.

First
Apifier (2015)
Best
Crawlee (282 points)
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Dev tools

2022

Crawlee

Web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js

Loved282 points80 comments

Dev tools

2024

Crawlee for Python

a web scraping and browser automation library

Mixed254 points57 comments

Infrastructure

2017

url-to-pdf

Ready-to-use API to convert any web page to PDF using headless Chrome

Curious129 points64 comments

Infrastructure

2015

Apifier

hosted web crawler for developers

Curious101 points35 comments

Dev tools

2018

Apify SDK

A scalable web crawling and scraping library for JavaScript

Quiet78 points8 comments

Dev tools

2026

mcpc

Universal command-line client for Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Quiet50 points5 comments

Dev tools

2017

Apify

Turn any website into an API

Mixed45 points21 comments

Infrastructure

2019

Web Scraper

Extract data from websites with a few lines of JavaScript

Quiet19 points1 comments

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