AI agents for web scraping
Agents that open pages, click through them and return the data you asked for in a structured form.
By weekly package downloads, the leaders are Stagehand (2.5M), Browser Use (2.4M), Amazon Nova Act (71.7K). By GitHub stars, the leaders are Browser Use (117K), Stagehand (25.5K), Skyvern (23.1K). The fastest grower over the last 30 days is Stagehand, with downloads up 16%. As of Oct 6, 2026.
| # | Agent | Category | Pulse | Downloads 7d | 7d | 30d | VS Code installs | Stars | Latest release | Price | Last 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 |
Browser UseBrowser Use |
Browser | 60 | 2.4M | up 16.3% | — | — | 117K+88/day | 0.13.1032d ago | Free | |
| 20 |
StagehandBrowserbase |
Browser | 58 | 2.5M | up 13.4% | up 16.5% | — | 25.5K+15/day | 3.7.339d ago | Free + $20/mo | |
| 102 |
ClayClay |
Sales | 28 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Free + $167/mo | |
| 104 |
SkyvernSkyvern AI |
Browser | 28 | 5,699 | up 0.3% | down 14.8% | — | 23.1K+8/day | 1.0.555d ago | Free + $29/mo | |
| 111 |
Amazon Nova ActAmazon (AWS) |
Browser | 23 | 71.7K | down 3.5% | down 41.0% | — | 918 | 3.4.187.05mo ago | Usage-based | |
| 146 |
Perplexity ComputerPerplexity AI |
General | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
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Ranks are overall positions by Pulse Score. Click a column to sort by what matters to you. Methodology.
Agent or classic scraper
A classic scraper is fast and cheap but breaks when a page changes. A browser agent reads the page the way a person does, so it copes with layout changes and multi-step flows (search, filter, paginate) at a higher cost per page. Many teams use agents to build or repair extraction steps and classic code to run them at volume.
What each agent does for this task
Only agents whose own documentation describes this use are listed. Checked Oct 6, 2026.
| Agent | What it does | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Browser Use | Open-source browser agent that returns extracted web data as structured output | docs |
| Stagehand | extract() pulls structured data from web pages against a schema | docs |
| Skyvern | Browser automation that extracts structured data from websites against a schema | docs |
| Amazon Nova Act | act_get() extracts information from web pages, with an optional response schema | docs |
| Clay | Claygent researches and scrapes websites to enrich rows in a table | docs |
| Perplexity Computer | Automates browser actions and extracts data from websites | docs |
Stay within the rules
- Read the site's terms and robots.txt. Many sites forbid automated collection; an agent does not change that.
- Prefer an official API where one exists.
- Do not collect personal data you have no lawful basis to process, and rate-limit what you run.
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