I Curated 130+ Web Scraping Tools So You Don't Have To (2026 Edition)

The Problem Every time I start a new scraping project, I waste an hour searching for the right tool. There are hundreds of libraries, frameworks, and services — and half of them are abandoned. So I built a curated list: 130+ web scraping tools , organized by language, purpose, and actively maintained as of 2026. awesome-web-scraping-2026 on GitHub (9 stars, growing) Here's a preview of the best tools in each category. Python (The King of Scraping) Tool Best For Stars Scrapy Large-scale crawling 53K+ BeautifulSoup Quick HTML parsing 28K+ Playwright JavaScript-heavy sites 68K+ httpx Async HTTP requests 13K+ Selectolax Fast HTML parsing (Cython) 1K+ curl_cffi TLS fingerprint matching 3K+ My Go-To Stack for 90% of Projects import httpx from selectolax.parser import HTMLParser resp = httpx . get ( " https://example.com " ) tree = HTMLParser ( resp . text ) for item in tree . css ( " div.product " ): title = item . css_first ( " h2 " ). text () price = item . css_first ( " .price " ). text (