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Scrapling is an adaptive web scraping framework for Python that introduces "self-healing" selectors — selectors that can track and find elements even when the website's DOM structure changes. This solves one of the biggest maintenance headaches in web scraping: broken selectors after website updates.

Key features include:

  • Self-healing selectors Scrapling uses smart element matching that can identify target elements even after the page structure changes. It builds a fingerprint of the element based on multiple attributes (text, position, siblings, attributes) and uses fuzzy matching to relocate it.
  • Multiple parsing backends Supports different parsing engines including lxml (fast) and a custom engine, allowing you to choose the right balance of speed and features.
  • Scrapy-like Spider API Provides a familiar Spider class pattern for organizing crawling logic, similar to Scrapy but with the added benefit of adaptive selectors.
  • CSS and XPath selectors Full support for CSS selectors and XPath, plus the adaptive matching system on top.
  • Type hints and modern Python Built with full type annotations and 92% test coverage for reliability.
  • Async support Supports asynchronous crawling for efficient concurrent scraping.

Scrapling gained massive traction in 2025 as one of the most starred new Python scraping libraries. It is particularly useful for scraping targets that frequently update their HTML structure, where traditional selector-based scrapers would break.

Colly is a popular web scraping library for the Go programming language. It's designed to be fast and easy to use, and it provides a simple and flexible API for traversing and extracting information from websites.

Colly supports:

  • Concurrent scraping with a simple API
  • Automatic handling of cookies and sessions
  • Automatic handling of redirects
  • Support for parsing HTML and XML
  • Support for parsing JSON and binary data
  • Support for custom storage (e.g. scraping results to a database)
  • Simple JavaScript rendering with Colly's built-in rendering engine.

Colly also provides several optional features, such as support for user-agents, delay between requests, rate-limiting and proxy usage.

Colly's API is quite simple, and it is easy to get started with basic web scraping tasks. It's a good choice for scraping moderate to heavy sites, and it can be useful for a wide range of use cases, such as data mining, content extraction, and more.

Additionally, you can use it together with Goquery, a library that allow you to make jquery like queries on HTML documents and it is often used together with Colly to ease the way of parsing the HTML.

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Example Use


```python from scrapling import Fetcher, StealthFetcher, PlayWrightFetcher # Simple fetching with adaptive parsing fetcher = Fetcher() page = fetcher.get("https://example.com/products") # CSS selectors work as expected products = page.css(".product-card") for product in products: name = product.css_first(".name").text() price = product.css_first(".price").text() print(f"{name}: {price}") # Adaptive selector - finds the element even if DOM changes # Uses element fingerprinting for resilient matching element = page.find("Product Title", auto_match=True) # Stealth fetching with anti-bot bypass stealth = StealthFetcher() page = stealth.get("https://protected-site.com") # Playwright-based fetching for JS-rendered pages pw = PlayWrightFetcher() page = pw.get("https://spa-example.com", headless=True) ```
```go package main import ( "fmt" "github.com/gocolly/colly/v2" ) func main() { // Instantiate default collector c := colly.NewCollector( // Visit only domains: hackerspaces.org, wiki.hackerspaces.org colly.AllowedDomains("hackerspaces.org", "wiki.hackerspaces.org"), ) // On every a element which has href attribute call callback c.OnHTML("a[href]", func(e *colly.HTMLElement) { link := e.Attr("href") // Print link fmt.Printf("Link found: %q -> %s\n", e.Text, link) // Visit link found on page // Only those links are visited which are in AllowedDomains c.Visit(e.Request.AbsoluteURL(link)) }) // Before making a request print "Visiting ..." c.OnRequest(func(r *colly.Request) { fmt.Println("Visiting", r.URL.String()) }) // Start scraping on https://hackerspaces.org c.Visit("https://hackerspaces.org/") } ```

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