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Crawlee Has a Free API — The Web Scraping Framework That Handles Everything

Crawlee Has a Free API — The Web Scraping Framework That Handles Everything

via Dev.to JavaScriptAlex Spinov

Crawlee is a web scraping and browser automation framework for Node.js. Built by Apify, it handles proxies, retries, fingerprints, sessions, and storage — so you focus on data extraction, not infrastructure. Why Crawlee? Anti-blocking — automatic proxy rotation, fingerprint randomization Smart retries — exponential backoff, session rotation Multiple crawlers — Cheerio (fast HTTP), Playwright (browser), Puppeteer Storage — datasets, key-value stores, request queues built-in Apify-ready — deploy to Apify Cloud with one command Quick Start npx crawlee create my-scraper cd my-scraper npm start Cheerio Crawler (Fast HTTP Scraping) import { CheerioCrawler , Dataset } from ' crawlee ' ; const crawler = new CheerioCrawler ({ async requestHandler ({ request , $ , enqueueLinks }) { const title = $ ( ' h1 ' ). text (); const price = $ ( ' .price ' ). text (); const description = $ ( ' .description ' ). text (); await Dataset . pushData ({ url : request . url , title , price , description , }); //

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