scrapinghub/portia
Visual scraping for Scrapy observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4548
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 798
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
9504 stars · 1385 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Portia is a visual web scraping tool from Scrapinghub built on Scrapy that lets users annotate web pages in a browser to define data extraction without programming. It generalizes annotations to scrape data from similar pages and is typically run via Docker.
Use cases
- scrape websites without writing code
- extract structured data from web pages visually
- annotate a page and scrape similar pages
- build scrapy spiders through a visual interface
- collect product or listing data from e-commerce sites
When to choose
- you need to scrape websites but have no programming knowledge
- you already use Scrapy and want a visual annotation workflow
- you want a self-hosted scraping IDE with Docker deployment
When to avoid
- you need a maintained tool with active development and modern browser support
- you only need a lightweight headless scraping library rather than a full application
- you require JavaScript-heavy sites needing recent rendering features
Facets
application · maturity maintenance
web-scraping gui parser crawlers web-development developer-tools python self-hosted visual-scraping scrapy annotation no-code data-extraction docker web-server
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/scrapinghub/portia · fetched 2026-08-28 · eeca26c9253f
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| scrapinghub/portia | main | 10 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="scrapinghub/portia")
Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00 · Report a problem