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Crawlee isn’t any less configurable than Scrapy. It just uses different, in my personal opinion more approachable, patterns. It makes it easier to start with, but you can tweak wha…

Technically it can. You can log in with the PlaywrightCrawler class without issue. The question is if there’s 2FA as well and how that’s handled. Crawlee does not have any abstract…

We tried a self hosted OCR model a few years ago, but the quality and speed wasn’t great. From experience, it’s usually better to reverse engineer the APIs. The more complicated th…

In one word. Nothing. But I personally think it does some things a little easier, a little faster and little more conveniently than the other libraries and tools out there. Althoug…

It uses Playwright under the hood, so yes, it can do all of that, and more.

It’s an “old” law that did not consider many intricacies of internet and the platforms that exist on it and it’s mostly made obsolete by EU case law, which has shrunk the definitio…

Sorry about the confusion. Some features, like the tiered proxies, are not documented properly. You’re absolutely right. Updates will come soon. We wanted to have as many features …

Oh wow, thanks! Will fix it right away. Crawlee is originally a JS library.

finally!

Yeah I agree, keeping the source HTML is great for debugging or retro-fixing issues. We also like to take screenshots on important errors, when running headless.

Exactly. The dynamic websites need to pull the data from somewhere as well. There's no magic behind it. Either all the data is in the initial payload in some form (not necessarily …

If it doesn’t, please make an issue. We know it works from the community but we don’t have tests specifically for Lambda. But it should work, so we’ll help if it doesn’t.

Yes

I get your point and I don't have an objective answer to it. We believe that internet is an open medium and there's immense value for humankind waiting to be discovered and unlocke…

Yeah, sure. We don't advertise it, but if you get in touch with us on support@apify.com or through the chat widget, we can create a proxy-only plan for you.

With fingerprints it's a tradeoff between having enough of them for large scale scraping and staying consistent with your environment. E.g. you can get exponentially more combinati…

Nice! Good luck with your project. The parsers are available under the utils.social namespace: https://crawlee.dev/api/utils/namespace/social The headless browser utils are under p…

The example uses Crawlee already, you can just remove the import { Actor } from 'apify'; and then all references to Actor and either remove them or replace them with Crawlee functi…

You can use a headless browser (would recommend PlaywrightCrawler) to log in once and then use the session cookie until it expires in any crawler. When it expires, you can re-login…

Yeah, exactly. Using pure HTTP needs much less resources than running headless browsers, so unless you really need to use a browser, you can save a lot of compute power (and money)…

Funny, I never knew about node-osmosis. I like the API in the example. It's a shame that it's no longer maintained.

Thanks! We really love open source and wanted to give back to the community. Crawlee is built on top of other great open-source libraries and projects. It's the best thing about bu…

word!