medialab/artoo

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1119 stars · 93 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

artoo.js is a JavaScript library injected into a webpage's context (typically via a bookmarklet) that provides client-side web scraping utilities. It offers declarative scraping, data download helpers, ajax-based spiders, content auto-expansion, and localStorage persistence directly from the browser console.

Use cases

• scrape data from a webpage directly in the browser console
• extract structured data from HTML tables and lists
• download scraped data as JSON from the browser
• crawl pages via ajax and accumulate results
• expand lazy-loaded page content before scraping
• scrape websites that block server-side crawlers

When to choose

• you want to scrape a page interactively without writing a server-side crawler
• the target site requires an authenticated browser session
• you need quick one-off data extraction with JSON download
• you prefer a bookmarklet over installing scraping toolchains

When to avoid

• you need large-scale or scheduled scraping jobs
• the site enforces strict Content Security Policy you cannot bypass
• you need headless browser automation in CI pipelines
• the project needs long-term support, as releases have stalled since 2021

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

web-scraping parser data-science crawlers web-development data-science developer-tools browser browser-extension bookmarklet client-side-scraping browser-console data-extraction spidering javascript

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