extraction — independent software & tools

4 independent extraction listings the big search engines bury.

• AstroCrawl

  github · Free · by Etoileint

  Async web crawler powered by Playwright headless Chromium — JavaScript rendering, AI-powered extraction (OpenAI / Anthropic / Google), CSS rule engine with visual preview, and a full PySide6 desktop GUI. SQLite WAL crash recovery, proxy circuit breaker, RFC 9309 robots.txt, ReDoS-immune regex, 3,822 tests. pip install astrocrawl[full,gui,fast].

• openbrand

  npm · Free · by ethanjyx

  Extract brand assets (logos, colors, backdrops) from any website URL

• url-metadata

  npm · Free · by laurengarcia

  Fetch a URL and scrape its metadata using Node.js or the browser. Can parse metadata from HTML strings or Response objects as well.

• exarch

  github · Free · by bug-ops

  Secure archive library: TAR/ZIP/7z extraction & creation with CVE protection. Type-safe Rust core, Python/Node.js bindings, zero unsafe code.