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.
PHP library to get information from any web page (using oembed, opengraph, twitter-cards, scrapping the html, etc).
It's compatible with any web service (youtube, vimeo, flickr, instagram, etc) and
has adapters to some sites like (archive.org, github, facebook, etc).
```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)
```
```javascript
use Embed\Embed;
$embed = new Embed();
//Load any url:
$info = $embed->get('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP1xn5wHtxE');
//Get content info
$info->title; //The page title
$info->description; //The page description
$info->url; //The canonical url
$info->keywords; //The page keywords
$info->image; //The thumbnail or main image
$info->code->html; //The code to embed the image, video, etc
$info->code->width; //The exact width of the embed code (if exists)
$info->code->height; //The exact height of the embed code (if exists)
$info->code->ratio; //The aspect ratio (width/height)
$info->authorName; //The resource author
$info->authorUrl; //The author url
$info->cms; //The cms used
$info->language; //The language of the page
$info->languages; //The alternative languages
$info->providerName; //The provider name of the page (Youtube, Twitter, Instagram, etc)
$info->providerUrl; //The provider url
$info->icon; //The big icon of the site
$info->favicon; //The favicon of the site (an .ico file or a png with up to 32x32px)
$info->publishedTime; //The published time of the resource
$info->license; //The license url of the resource
$info->feeds; //The RSS/Atom feeds
```