# medialab/artoo

artoo.js - the client-side scraping companion.

Repository: https://github.com/medialab/artoo
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/medialab-artoo
Homepage: http://medialab.github.io/artoo/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: scraping
Last push: 2021-03-31T15:31:10+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4520, "days_push": 1981, "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 1119, forks 93 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:39.300432+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: web-scraping, parser, data-science
- domain: crawlers, web-development, data-science, developer-tools
- platform: browser, browser-extension
- tags: bookmarklet, client-side-scraping, browser-console, data-extraction, spidering, javascript

## Member repositories
- medialab/artoo (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:39.300432+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 2026-08-30T06:41:25.185489+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/medialab/artoo (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:39.300432+00:00, sha f34fea5b6a39)
  - homepage: http://medialab.github.io/artoo/ (fetched 2026-08-29T12:45:09.515606+00:00, sha ed832db37357)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.