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SlimerJS vs StormCrawler

A side-by-side look at SlimerJS and StormCrawler. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

SlimerJS

SlimerJS

Development

SlimerJS is a scriptable browser for web scraping and testing, similar to PhantomJS, based on Gecko and Firefox. It provides a JavaScript API for controlling a browser to load pages, extract content, run tests, take screenshots, etc.

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StormCrawler

StormCrawler

Development

StormCrawler is an open source web crawler designed to crawl large websites efficiently by scaling horizontally through Apache Storm. It is fault-tolerant and allows integration with other Storm components like machine learning pipelines.

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