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scrapinghub/portia

Visual scraping for Scrapy observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/scrapinghub/portia · Python · BSD-3-Clause (permissive) · archived 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

Full methodology

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

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
scrapinghub/portiamain10

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="scrapinghub/portia")

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