AI Web Scraping Tools Landscape: A Selection Guide for 34 Open-Source Projects
From MarkItDown (169k stars, MIT) to curl-impersonate (7k stars), a survey of 34 open-source tools for feeding data to AI. Categorized along five axes: whole-site crawling, AI browser agents, document conversion, smart extraction, and anti-detection infrastructure. The key to selection isn't which tool is best — it's scenario matching.