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matthewmueller/x-ray

The next web scraper. See through the <html> noise. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/matthewmueller/x-ray · JavaScript · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

66/100

  • Activity 95
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100
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: 4228
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 31
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

5907 stars · 342 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

x-ray is a Node.js web scraping library that lets you define flexible schemas to structure data from any website using jQuery-like selectors. It supports pagination, crawling, throttling, and pluggable drivers such as HTTP and PhantomJS.

Use cases

  • scrape structured data from web pages into json
  • crawl a blog and extract post titles and links with pagination
  • extract product listings from an e-commerce site
  • scrape a website without writing raw cheerio code
  • stream scraped pages to a file incrementally
  • scrape javascript-rendered pages with a phantomjs driver

When to choose

  • you want a declarative schema-based scraping api in node.js
  • you need pagination and crawling built into your scraper
  • you want composable selectors with throttling and limits

When to avoid

  • you need a full headless browser like puppeteer or playwright for complex sites
  • you are scraping in python or another non-node language
  • you need actively developed bleeding-edge scraping features

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

web-scraping parser http-client web-development crawlers cheerio scraper pagination crawler phantomjs-driver data-engineering nodejs javascript

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Member repositories

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For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="matthewmueller/x-ray")

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