# yujiosaka/headless-chrome-crawler

Distributed crawler powered by Headless Chrome

Repository: https://github.com/yujiosaka/headless-chrome-crawler
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/headless-chrome-crawler
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: headless-chrome, puppeteer, jquery, crawler, crawling, scraper, scraping, chrome, chromium, promise
Last push: 2023-04-29T20:48:51+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3196, "days_push": 1222, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5635, forks 404 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:26.569406+00:00)

## What it is
A Node.js library providing a distributed web crawler powered by Headless Chrome via Puppeteer. It can crawl JavaScript-rendered (SPA) websites and export results as CSV or JSON Lines.

## Use cases
- crawl single-page apps built with React or Vue
- scrape dynamic websites that need JavaScript rendering
- run a distributed crawler with configurable concurrency and retries
- export crawled pages to CSV or JSON Lines
- respect robots.txt and follow sitemap.xml while crawling
- take screenshots of pages as crawling evidence

## When to choose
- target sites are rendered client-side with modern frontend frameworks
- you need distributed crawling with Redis-backed cache and priority queues
- you want a promise-based Node.js API on top of Puppeteer for crawling

## When to avoid
- you only need to crawl static HTML where simple HTTP requests suffice
- your project is not on Node.js
- you need actively maintained software with frequent updates

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: web-scraping, http-client, caching
- domain: crawlers, web-development
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: headless-chrome, puppeteer, distributed-crawling, scraper, dynamic-websites, spa-crawling, automation, nodejs

## Member repositories
- yujiosaka/headless-chrome-crawler (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:26.569406+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 2026-08-29T17:55:19.943153+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/yujiosaka/headless-chrome-crawler (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:26.569406+00:00, sha d5e25f424491)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/headless-chrome-crawler (fetched 2026-08-29T08:50:07.449590+00:00, sha 308a48a3e65b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.