lorien/grab
Web Scraping Framework observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
51/100
- Activity 42
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4872
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 348
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2463 stars · 274 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Grab is a Python web scraping framework providing HTTP request handling, proxy/cookie support, and XPath-based HTML parsing, plus a Spider component for building asynchronous crawlers with thousands of parallel requests. It was revived in 2025 with compatibility updates for Python 2.7 through 3.13 but no new features.
Use cases
- scrape websites with python
- build a web crawler
- extract data from html pages with xpath
- make thousands of parallel http requests
- submit web forms programmatically
- scrape through http or socks proxies
- download pages with automatic charset detection
When to choose
- you need a batteries-included scraping framework with session, proxy, and form handling in Python
- you want an asynchronous spider framework for large crawl jobs
- you need a mature library that still runs on modern Python 3.13
When to avoid
- you want actively developed features or modern async/await asyncio integration
- you prefer lightweight libraries like requests + BeautifulSoup for simple scraping
- you need JavaScript-rendered page support
Facets
framework · maturity maintenance
web-scraping http-client parser networking crawlers web-development python cross-platform crawler spider pycurl xpath html-parsing asynchronous data-engineering
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/lorien/grab · fetched 2026-08-28 · 2a93a9519735
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/grab/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · 00edf884692a
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| lorien/grab | main | 51 |
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