Scraping and research agents: 7 repos to read the internet with AI

What you'll see in this lesson

1. Give your AI eyes and hands on the internet

   These repos read websites, social media and forums for you: track competitors, collect data or prepare reports without copy and paste.

2. last30days: what people are saying about a topic this month

   A skill for your agent that sums up the top-voted posts of the last month on Reddit, X, YouTube or HN. Over 64,000 stars for how easy it is.

3. Agent-Reach: your agent reads YouTube, X and more

   Free CLI that connects your agent to websites, YouTube, GitHub, X or Reddit without paying for APIs. Almost 97,000 stars on GitHub.

4. Firecrawl: any website turned into data for AI

   API that turns a page or a whole site into Markdown or structured data. It's the most popular: over 190,000 stars.

5. Crawl4AI: a free crawler that runs on your computer

   Open-source crawler that turns websites into AI-ready Markdown, with no fees or required key. Over 85,000 stars.

6. Scrapling: scrapers that don't break when the site changes

   Python scraping framework that finds the data again even if the website changes its design. Over 87,000 stars on GitHub.

7. browser-use: an agent that browses like a person

   Library that lets AI click, fill in forms and extract data in the browser. Almost 118,000 stars on GitHub.

8. UI-TARS: the agent that looks at the screen and acts

   ByteDance project with Agent TARS and UI-TARS Desktop: it controls browser and computer by seeing the screen. Over 39,000 stars.

9. Summary: pick the tool for the task

   From a trends report with one command to an agent that runs your computer: start simple and move up when you need to.