botasaurusvspholcus
Botasaurus is an all-in-one Python web scraping framework that combines browser automation, anti-detection, and scaling features into a single package. It aims to simplify the entire web scraping workflow from development to deployment.
Key features include:
- Anti-detect browser Ships with a stealth-patched browser that passes common bot detection tests. Automatically handles fingerprinting, user agent rotation, and other anti-detection measures.
- Decorator-based API Uses Python decorators (@browser, @request) to define scraping tasks, making code clean and easy to organize.
- Built-in parallelism Easy parallel execution of scraping tasks across multiple browser instances with configurable concurrency.
- Caching Built-in caching layer to avoid re-scraping pages during development and debugging.
- Profile persistence Can save and reuse browser profiles (cookies, localStorage) across scraping sessions for maintaining login state.
- Output handling Automatic output to JSON, CSV, or custom formats with built-in data filtering.
- Web dashboard Includes a web UI for monitoring scraping progress, viewing results, and managing tasks.
Botasaurus is designed for developers who want a batteries-included framework that handles anti-detection automatically, without needing to manually configure stealth settings or manage browser fingerprints.
Pholcus is a minimalistic web crawler library written in the Go programming language. It is designed to be flexible and easy to use, and it supports concurrent, distributed, and modular crawling.
Note that Pholcus is documented and maintained in the Chinese language and has no english resources other than the code source itself.