# lorien/grab

Web Scraping Framework

Repository: https://github.com/lorien/grab
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/grab
Homepage: https://grab.readthedocs.io
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: web-scraping, http-client, framework, python, pycurl, asynchronous, network, urllib3, spider, crawler, crawling, scraping, python-library, python3
Last push: 2025-09-19T10:51:17+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 51/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 42, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4872, "days_push": 348, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2463, forks 274 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:53.546932+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: maintenance
- function: web-scraping, http-client, parser, networking
- domain: crawlers, web-development
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: crawler, spider, pycurl, xpath, html-parsing, asynchronous, data-engineering

## Member repositories
- lorien/grab (main) score 51

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:53.546932+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:29:17.328907+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/lorien/grab (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:53.546932+00:00, sha 2a93a9519735)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/grab/json (fetched 2026-08-29T10:11:33.131161+00:00, sha 00edf884692a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.