Scraping and browser automation

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• cheerio-httpclihttp client module with cheerio & iconv(-lite) & promise
• hltvThe unofficial HLTV Node.js API
• @prerenderer/renderer-jsdomA renderer for @prerenderer/prerenderer that uses JSDOM to prerender pages.
• js-crawlerWeb crawler for Node.js
• bandcamp-fetchScrape Bandcamp content
• tiktok-signatureTikTok Signature Generator - Generate valid X-Bogus and X-Gnarly signatures for TikTok API requests
• selenium-side-runnerRun Selenium IDE projects in cli
• playwright-recorder-plusA higher-quality, configurable alternative to Playwright's built-in recordVideo. Fixed two-pass pipeline (fast realtime capture + configurable transcode) with pause/resume, crop, multi-page contexts, and inline audio scheduling.
• @crawlee/stagehandAI-powered web crawling with Stagehand integration for Crawlee - enables natural language browser automation with act(), extract(), and observe() methods.
• @xyne/unfurlScraper for oEmbed, Twitter Cards and Open Graph metadata - fast and Promise-based
• @profullstack/x402-gatewaySell crawl access to AI training crawlers by the day over x402, settled by CoinPay. One middleware: 402 with an offer, a sales page with CLI instructions, signed passes, Profullstack Power Keys honoured as a pass, and a robots.txt that keeps search crawle
• @mozillasecurity/spawndSpawn a dependent child process.
• omniusAI coding agent powered by open-source models (Ollama/vLLM) — interactive TUI with agentic tool-calling loop
• @web/test-runner-seleniumSelenium browser launcher for Web Test Runner
• meta-fetcherScrape metadata from a website URL
• cheerio-advanced-selectorsAdd advanced selector support to cheerio
• cbrowserCognitive browser automation that thinks like your users—and helps AI agents navigate too. Simulate real user cognition with abandonment detection, constitutional safety, chaos engineering, and UX friction discovery. Sites that pass CBrowser's cognitive t
• tt-help-cli-yclTikTok user & video data scraper - extract ttSeller, verified, locationCreated from HTML source
• @wreq-js/binding-linux-arm64-gnuNode.js/TypeScript HTTP client with browser TLS fingerprint impersonation (JA3/JA4). Bypass Cloudflare and anti-bot detection. Rust-powered, fetch()-compatible.
• recrawl[](https://www.npmjs.com/package/recrawl) [](https://github.com/aleclarson/recrawl/actions/workflows/release.yml) [![codeco
• crawlee-ghost-fetchCrawlee BaseHttpClient that delegates every HTTP request to the ghost-fetch unblocker (impit Tier 1 + stealth Chromium fallback). Plugs into CheerioCrawler / HttpCrawler with a one-line swap; SessionPool drives rotation; opt-in false-block recovery for WA
• mcp-devicesMCP server for mobile, desktop and browser automation — Android, iOS, HarmonyOS Next, Aurora OS, Desktop, and Browser
• selenium-engine-jsSelenium-like methods useful for automating SPAs (Single Page Application) where content is changed dynamically.

• happy-dom vs jsdom
• selenium-webdriver vs wd
• @appium/types vs selenium-webdriver
• @appium/types vs wd
• cheerio vs @metascraper/helpers
• codeceptjs vs playwright-bdd
• codeceptjs vs nightwatch