Crawlee vs Puppeteer vs Playwright — Which to Use for Web Scraping

After building 77 scrapers, here's my take: Tool Best For Speed Reliability Crawlee Complex sites with anti-bot Medium High Puppeteer Simple JS rendering Fast Medium Playwright Cross-browser testing + scraping Fast High Cheerio Static HTML parsing Very fast High JSON API Sites with hidden endpoints Fastest Highest My recommendation: Start with JSON APIs and RSS. Use Cheerio for HTML. Playwright only as last resort. 77 scrapers using all these methods: GitHub Custom scraping — $20: Payoneer