scrapegraphai 2.1.5

A web scraping library based on LangChain which uses LLM and direct graph logic to create scraping pipelines.

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🕷️ ScrapeGraphAI: You Only Scrape Once

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ScrapeGraphAI is a web scraping python library that uses LLM and direct graph logic to create scraping pipelines for websites and local documents (XML, HTML, JSON, Markdown, etc.).

Just say which information you want to extract and the library will do it for you!

🚀 Integrations

ScrapeGraphAI offers seamless integration with popular frameworks and tools to enhance your scraping capabilities. Whether you're building with Python or Node.js, using LLM frameworks, or working with no-code platforms, we've got you covered with our comprehensive integration options..

You can find more informations at the following link

Integrations:

• API: Documentation
• SDKs: Python, Node
• LLM Frameworks: Langchain, Llama Index, Crew.ai, Agno, CamelAI
• Low-code Frameworks: Pipedream, Bubble, Zapier, n8n, Dify, Toolhouse
• MCP server: Link

🚀 Quick install

The reference page for Scrapegraph-ai is available on the official page of PyPI: pypi.

pip install scrapegraphai

# IMPORTANT (for fetching websites content)
playwright install

Note: it is recommended to install the library in a virtual environment to avoid conflicts with other libraries 🐱

💻 Usage

There are multiple standard scraping pipelines that can be used to extract information from a website (or local file).

The most common one is the SmartScraperGraph, which extracts information from a single page given a user prompt and a source URL.

from scrapegraphai.graphs import SmartScraperGraph

# Define the configuration for the scraping pipeline
graph_config = {
    "llm": {
        "model": "ollama/llama3.2",
        "model_tokens": 8192,
        "format": "json",
    },
    "verbose": True,
    "headless": False,
}

# Create the SmartScraperGraph instance
smart_scraper_graph = SmartScraperGraph(
    prompt="Extract useful information from the webpage, including a description of what the company does, founders and social media links",
    source="https://scrapegraphai.com/",
    config=graph_config
)

# Run the pipeline
result = smart_scraper_graph.run()

import json
print(json.dumps(result, indent=4))

[!NOTE] For OpenAI and other models you just need to change the llm config!

graph_config = {
   "llm": {
       "api_key": "YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY",
       "model": "openai/gpt-4o-mini",
   },
   "verbose": True,
   "headless": False,
}

The output will be a dictionary like the following:

{
    "description": "ScrapeGraphAI transforms websites into clean, organized data for AI agents and data analytics. It offers an AI-powered API for effortless and cost-effective data extraction.",
    "founders": [
        {
            "name": "",
            "role": "Founder & Technical Lead",
            "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/perinim/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Marco Vinciguerra",
            "role": "Founder & Software Engineer",
            "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/marco-vinciguerra-7ba365242/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Lorenzo Padoan",
            "role": "Founder & Product Engineer",
            "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorenzo-padoan-4521a2154/"
        }
    ],
    "social_media_links": {
        "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/101881123",
        "twitter": "https://x.com/scrapegraphai",
        "github": "https://github.com/ScrapeGraphAI/Scrapegraph-ai"
    }
}

There are other pipelines that can be used to extract information from multiple pages, generate Python scripts, or even generate audio files.

Pipeline Name	Description
SmartScraperGraph	Single-page scraper that only needs a user prompt and an input source.
SearchGraph	Multi-page scraper that extracts information from the top n search results of a search engine.
SpeechGraph	Single-page scraper that extracts information from a website and generates an audio file.
ScriptCreatorGraph	Single-page scraper that extracts information from a website and generates a Python script.
SmartScraperMultiGraph	Multi-page scraper that extracts information from multiple pages given a single prompt and a list of sources.
ScriptCreatorMultiGraph	Multi-page scraper that generates a Python script for extracting information from multiple pages and sources.

For each of these graphs there is the multi version. It allows to make calls of the LLM in parallel.

It is possible to use different LLM through APIs, such as OpenAI, Groq, Azure, Gemini, MiniMax and more, or local models using Ollama.

Remember to have Ollama installed and download the models using the ollama pull command, if you want to use local models.

📖 Documentation

The documentation for ScrapeGraphAI can be found here.

🆚 Open Source vs Managed API

ScrapeGraphAI comes in two flavours: this open-source library, which you run yourself, and the managed cloud API (used via the Python and JS/TS SDKs). This table explains the difference so you can pick the right one.

	Open Source (scrapegraphai)	Managed API (scrapegraph-py / scrapegraph-js)
What it is	A Python library you run yourself	A hosted cloud service you call via SDK
Where it runs	Your own infrastructure (self-hosted)	ScrapeGraphAI cloud
LLM	Bring your own (OpenAI, Groq, Gemini, Azure, local via Ollama)	Managed for you
Browser / JS rendering	You configure it (Playwright)	Managed (stealth, auto/fast/js modes)
Proxies & anti-bot	Your responsibility	Included
Scaling & maintenance	Your responsibility	Fully managed
Cost model	LLM tokens + your own infra	Pay-as-you-go credits
Auth	Your own LLM keys	SGAI_API_KEY
Capabilities	Graph pipelines (SmartScraper, Search, Speech, ScriptCreator…)	Scrape, Extract, Search, Crawl, Monitor, History
Setup effort	More configuration	Minimal — API key + one call
License	MIT	SDK is MIT; the API service is paid

Choose the open-source library if you want full control, on-prem/self-hosted data, local LLMs (Ollama), or fine-grained cost tuning — and you're happy to manage browsers, proxies and scaling yourself.

Choose the managed API if you want zero infrastructure, managed JS rendering & anti-bot, built-in Crawl and scheduled Monitor jobs, and the fastest path to production — billed per credit.

• Open-source library: https://github.com/ScrapeGraphAI/Scrapegraph-ai
• Python SDK: https://github.com/ScrapeGraphAI/scrapegraph-py
• JS/TS SDK: https://github.com/ScrapeGraphAI/scrapegraph-js
• API docs: https://docs.scrapegraphai.com/introduction

🤝 Contributing

Feel free to contribute and join our Discord server to discuss with us improvements and give us suggestions!

Please see the contributing guidelines.

🔗 ScrapeGraph API & SDKs

If you are looking for a quick solution to integrate ScrapeGraph in your system, check out our powerful API here!

We offer SDKs in both Python and Node.js, making it easy to integrate into your projects. Check them out below:

SDK	Language	GitHub Link
Python SDK	Python	scrapegraph-py
Node.js SDK	Node.js	scrapegraph-js

The Official API Documentation can be found here.

📈 Telemetry

We collect anonymous usage metrics to enhance our package's quality and user experience. The data helps us prioritize improvements and ensure compatibility. If you wish to opt-out, set the environment variable SCRAPEGRAPHAI_TELEMETRY_ENABLED=false. For more information, please refer to the documentation here.

❤️ Contributors

🎓 Citations

If you have used our library for research purposes please quote us with the following reference:

  @misc{scrapegraph-ai,
    author = {Lorenzo Padoan, Marco Vinciguerra},
    title = {Scrapegraph-ai},
    year = {2024},
    url = {https://github.com/ScrapeGraphAI/Scrapegraph-ai},
    note = {A Python library for scraping leveraging large language models}
  }

Authors

	Contact Info
Marco Vinciguerra
Lorenzo Padoan

📜 License

ScrapeGraphAI is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more information.

Acknowledgements

• We would like to thank all the contributors to the project and the open-source community for their support.
• ScrapeGraphAI is meant to be used for data exploration and research purposes only. We are not responsible for any misuse of the library.

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