Crawlee

Crawlee helps you build reliable crawlers. Fast.

★★★★★ 4.5/5 from 6 reviews

Engineering & Development Automation tools Databases and backend frameworks

What is Crawlee?

Crawlee is an intuitive, customizable open-source library for web scraping and browser automation. Quickly scrape data, store it, and avoid getting blocked with auto-generated human-like fingerprints, headless browsers, and smart proxy rotation.

Pros & Cons

Pros

Easy to use
Browser fingerprinting
Quick setup
Automatic session management
Customizable
Excellent documentation
Feature rich
Proxy rotation
Request management
Resource efficient

Cons

Poor support
Weak examples

Tool Details

Categories	Engineering & Development, Automation tools, Databases and backend frameworks
Website	crawlee.dev
Became Popular	August 23, 2022
Platforms	Web
Social	Twitter · Instagram · Facebook · GitHub

Recent Reviews (6)

Matthias Aug 23, 2022

★★★★★

Compared to competing libraries, Crawlee is easier to use, yet also more feature rich. In just like 20 lines of code, you can have a crawler set up and ready to go that uses proxy rotation, automatic session management, header generation, fingerprint generation, and request management. When building a crawler with Crawlee, you have more time to focus on the job at hand rather than reinventing the wheel and creating custom implementations for proxy-management or request-management etc.

Easy to use Quick setup Feature rich Proxy rotation Automatic session management Browser fingerprinting Request management

Alexey Aug 24, 2022

★★★★★

I used Apify SDK for over 3 years in various projects, for evaluation created two actors under Crawlee, outcome is better since less resource consuming and it was easy and fun to learn and use.

Easy to use Resource efficient

Azzouzana Sep 30, 2025

★★★★★

Simple SDK, extremely powerful! Works out of the box, easy for beginners, with browser fingerprinting and proxy rotation built in. Setup is fast, extending functionality is a breeze! couldn’t ask for more!

Steven Sep 9, 2024

★★★★☆

A convenient tool. It allows you to quickly set up and start gathering information, even if you don't have much programming experience.

Easy to use Quick setup

Robert-Andrei Jan 18, 2024

★★★★★

This library is very easy to get started with, the documentation is helpful, and extending it with custom functionality is also possible without great effort

Easy to use Excellent documentation Customizable

Antonis Aug 26, 2022

★★★☆☆

not that great onboarding. Weak examples and poor support in the discord channel. Almost no support I'd say.

Poor support Weak examples