A curated collection of the best free web scraping tools, open-source scrapers, and
agent skills, vetted and ready to use. You only pay for the proxy traffic
Free tools for web scraping built by the NodeMaven team
Check connection security, track traffic usage, and test proxies. Every tool here is built in-house by our developers, safe to run, and works without signup
Pay only for proxy traffic
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Automate websites with AI prompts, templates, or code. NodeMaven handles proxies, anti-detection, and CAPTCHA solving
Free GitHub projects covering every layer of a scraper. Filter by the layer you need
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Camoufox
An anti-detect browser built on a patched version of Firefox. Fingerprints are spoofed directly in the browser engine rather than through JavaScript injection.
Turns web pages into clean Markdown, JSON or LLM-ready context. Ships as CLI, MCP server, REST API and SDKs. Open-source alternative to Firecrawl, built for RAG ingestion and AI agents.
Self-hosted engine that solves JS challenges and captchas for other tools. Handles Cloudflare, Turnstile, reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, GeeTest. Redis session cache returns repeat requests in ~500ms.
Multi-platform data collection tool for Chinese social media. Covers Xiaohongshu, Douyin, Kuaishou, Bilibili, Weibo, Tieba and Zhihu. Uses a logged-in browser context instead of reverse-engineering the signing algorithms.
Extracts business leads from Google Maps. Emails, phone numbers, websites, reviews, ratings, coordinates. CLI + Web UI + REST API, plus an Agent Skill so an AI agent can run the whole workflow.
Resilient listing parser for Avito.ru. Residential proxy rotation with sticky sessions, a unique identity per browser context, human-like behaviour, and automatic hCaptcha solving via 2Captcha.
Reverse-engineers your browser session into a standalone Python automation script. Records network traffic and interactions, a vision model annotates each action, then an agent iterates in a sandbox until the script works. No browser needed at runtime. Alpha stage.
No. These are open-source projects built by their own authors and communities. We test them, group them by what they do, and link to the original repos. Licensing, updates, and bugs stay with the maintainers, so check each repo before you put it into production.
Yes. The tools our team built, like the proxy checker and traffic calculator, are free to use and do not require an account. Our proxy service is paid, but nothing on this page is gated behind it.
Low-quality IPs get blocked, return CAPTCHAs, or serve different content than a real user would see, which quietly corrupts your dataset. Fraud score, connection speed, and session stability matter more than raw pool size.
The moment one target starts seeing repeated requests from the same address. For a handful of pages you do not need anything. Once you are running at volume, hitting rate limits, or scraping a market you are not physically in, proxies become the part that keeps the scraper alive.
Rules differ by country and by site, so this is not legal advice. In general, publicly available data that sits behind no login is the safest ground. Scraping personal data, copyrighted content, or anything you had to authenticate to reach carries real risk, and site terms of service and robots.txt still apply. When a project involves personal data or commercial resale, talk to a lawyer.
Most stacks come down to four pieces: a crawler or HTTP client, a parser, proxies, and storage. The projects on this page cover the first two well. Proxies, a CAPTCHA solver for harder targets, and hosting are the parts you normally pay for.
For small, occasional jobs, yes. Sites tolerate a low request rate from one IP. Problems start with volume, and they show up as blocks, throttling, or silently altered responses.
Residential IPs work for most targets because they look like ordinary user traffic. Mobile IPs handle the strictest sites and social platforms. Sticky sessions matter whenever a scraper needs to stay logged in or hold state across requests.
Usually not. Free lists are shared by thousands of users, so the IPs are already flagged, the uptime is unpredictable, and the operator can see your traffic.
No. An API gives you structured data on terms the provider sets. Scraping reads the page as a browser would, which works on sites with no API but breaks when the layout changes. If a target offers an API that covers your use case, it is the cheaper path.
Watch for a jump in 403 and 429 responses, CAPTCHA pages, empty results where content used to be, and pages that load but return a stripped-down version. The last one is the dangerous case, because the scraper keeps running and the data goes wrong without an error.
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