⭐ ShadowCrawler

ShadowCrawler is a modular, production‑ready web crawling framework designed for developers who need real‑world spiders that are stable, scalable, and easy to maintain. Built with a clean architecture and a powerful plugin‑based system, ShadowCrawler lets you focus on extracting data — not fighting HTML, browser automation, or boilerplate code.

Whether you’re scraping static pages, dynamic content, media galleries, or authenticated sections, ShadowCrawler gives you the tools to build reliable spiders with minimal effort.

✨ Key Features

• Modular Architecture

Every spider is built from independent modules (pipelines, handlers, extractors, validators), making your code clean, reusable, and easy to extend.

• Real Browser Support (Playwright Mode)

Run spiders using a real browser when needed — perfect for dynamic sites, infinite scroll, lazy‑loaded content, and JS‑heavy pages.

• Automatic Checkpointing

ShadowCrawler can save progress and resume spiders from the last known state, preventing data loss and saving hours of re‑processing.

• Media Pipeline

Download images, videos, GIFs, and other assets automatically with a robust, configurable pipeline.

• Authentication Pipeline

Handle login flows, cookies, sessions, and protected content with ease.

• Clean CLI Experience

Run spiders, inspect logs, debug, and manage outputs with a simple and intuitive command‑line interface.

• Domain‑Aware Spider Routing

ShadowCrawler automatically selects the correct spider based on the domain you provide — no manual routing needed.

• Extensible & Developer‑Friendly

Write your own modules, override defaults, or plug in custom logic. ShadowCrawler is built for developers who want control without complexity.

🚀 Perfect For

• Web scraping projects
• Data extraction pipelines
• Research tools
• Automation workflows
• Media collectors
• Framework enthusiasts
• Developers who want a clean, modern alternative to traditional scrapers

📦 What’s Included

• Full ShadowCrawler framework
• Example spiders
• Documentation
• CLI tools
• Modular pipelines
• Logging & debugging utilities
• Ready‑to‑use project structure

💬 Why ShadowCrawler?

Because most scraping tools are either too simple, too rigid, or too painful to maintain. ShadowCrawler gives you the power of a real framework — without the complexity of enterprise solutions.

It’s built for developers who want clarity, structure, and control.

🛠 Status

ShadowCrawler is actively evolving. New modules, pipelines, and improvements will be released regularly.

🔗 GitHub

Source code, issues, roadmap, and development: https://github.com/shadowcrawlerframework/shadowcrawler