Crawlee Has a Free API — Web Scraping Framework That Handles Anti-Bot Protection

TL;DR Crawlee is an open-source web scraping framework by Apify that handles browser fingerprinting, proxy rotation, and request queuing automatically. It supports HTTP, Cheerio, Playwright, and Puppeteer crawlers — all with the same unified interface. What Is Crawlee? Crawlee is the most complete scraping framework: Anti-bot protection — automatic fingerprinting, headers, proxy rotation Multiple crawlers — HTTP, Cheerio, Playwright, Puppeteer Request queue — handles millions of URLs with retry logic Auto-scaling — adjusts concurrency based on system resources Session management — rotates sessions to avoid blocks Storage — built-in dataset and key-value storage Free — Apache 2.0 Quick Start npx crawlee create my-scraper cd my-scraper npm start HTTP Crawler (Fastest) import { HttpCrawler } from " crawlee " ; const crawler = new HttpCrawler ({ maxRequestsPerCrawl : 100 , async requestHandler ({ request , body , log }) { log . info ( `Processing ${ request . url } ` ); // body is raw HTML