# IonicaBizau/scrape-it

🔮 A Node.js scraper for humans.

Repository: https://github.com/IonicaBizau/scrape-it
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/scrape-it
Homepage: http://ionicabizau.net/blog/30-how-to-write-a-web-scraper-in-node-js
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: scraper, node-scraper, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2026-07-07T14:03:57+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 93/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 91, release rhythm 92, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3779, "days_push": 57, "days_rel": 57, "gap_med": 8, "n_releases_24m": 12}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4073, forks 216 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:34.231452+00:00)

## What it is
scrape-it is a Node.js web scraping library with a simple, declarative API for extracting data from HTML pages, built on top of tinyreq and cheerio. It also ships a companion CLI (scrape-it-cli) for scraping from the command line.

## Use cases
- scrape data from a website in node.js
- extract structured data from html pages
- parse product prices from a web page
- collect information from sites without an api
- scrape a webpage from the command line
- extract article titles and links from a blog

## When to choose
- you want a minimal, human-friendly scraping API in Node.js for static HTML pages
- you need quick declarative extraction of fields from server-rendered pages
- you prefer a small library over heavyweight headless-browser scraping frameworks

## When to avoid
- you need to scrape JavaScript-rendered or ajax-heavy pages (use Puppeteer or Playwright instead)
- you need built-in request queuing, proxies, or anti-bot handling
- you are not working in the Node.js ecosystem

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, parser, http-client
- domain: web-development, crawlers, developer-tools
- platform: cli
- tags: scraping, cheerio, html-extraction, data-extraction, nodejs

## Member repositories
- IonicaBizau/scrape-it (main) score 93

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:34.231452+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 2026-08-29T18:23:29.669580+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/IonicaBizau/scrape-it (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:34.231452+00:00, sha c197ddb704b6)
  - homepage: http://ionicabizau.net/blog/30-how-to-write-a-web-scraper-in-node-js (fetched 2026-08-29T09:15:51.523167+00:00, sha b6222c3186a2)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/scrape-it (fetched 2026-08-29T09:15:51.532952+00:00, sha 6cdfb5834583)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.