# matthewmueller/x-ray The next web scraper. See through the noise. Repository: https://github.com/matthewmueller/x-ray Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/x-ray Language: JavaScript License: MIT License Family: permissive Last push: 2026-08-02T20:45:57+00:00 ## Health v2 (maintenance only) Score: 66/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00) - activity 95, release rhythm 8, longevity 100 - inputs: {"age_days": 4228, "days_push": 31, "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 5907, forks 342 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:32.137008+00:00) ## What it is 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 - artifact type: library - maturity: maintenance - function: web-scraping, parser, http-client - domain: web-development, crawlers - platform: - - tags: cheerio, scraper, pagination, crawler, phantomjs-driver, data-engineering, nodejs, javascript ## Member repositories - matthewmueller/x-ray (main) score 66 ## Provenance - Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:32.137008+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 2026-08-29T17:51:17.918107+00:00, confidence not recorded. - readme: https://github.com/matthewmueller/x-ray (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:32.137008+00:00, sha 7de243f03cb5) - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/x-ray (fetched 2026-08-29T08:47:00.434001+00:00, sha 67cfa89750c4) - Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.