GoScrapy: Harnessing Go's perfomance for blazingly fast web scraping, inspired by Python's Scrapy framework. - tech-engine/goscrapy
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Most web scraping today is dominated by Python—especially tools like Scrapy. It’s familiar, powerful, and widely used. But when you start scaling, something becomes clear: performance and infrastructure costs begin to hurt.
Switching to a faster language like Go sounds like the obvious next step—but the real challenge is the transition: 👉 new syntax, new patterns, and a completely different ecosystem.
🚀 Enter Goscrapy
Goscrapy bridges that gap. It’s designed for:
⚡ Developers who want Go-level performance
🧠 Without losing the Scrapy-like developer experience
💡 Why it stands out
Familiar UX → Feels like Scrapy, so Python developers feel at home instantly
Lower learning curve → No painful transition phase
High performance → Built on Go for speed and efficiency
Cost savings → Handle more with fewer resources
🎯 The idea is simple
Don’t force developers to choose between comfort and performance.
With Goscrapy, you get both.
If you’ve ever thought:
I wish Scrapy was faster and cheaper to run…
This is for you.
Features ---------- 🚀 Blazing Fast — Built on Go's concurrency model for high-throughput parallel scraping 🐍 Scrapy-inspired — Familiar architecture for anyone coming from Python's Scrapy 🛠️ CLI Scaffolding — Generate project structure instantly with goscrapy startproject 📡 Signal-Driven — Decoupled, event-driven architecture using a central signal bus 🧠 Auto-Discovery — Automatic detection of spider lifecycle methods (Open, Close, Idle) 🔁 Smart Retry — Automatic retries with exponential back-off on failures 🍪 Cookie Management — Maintains separate cookie sessions per scraping target 🔍 CSS & XPath Selectors — Flexible HTML parsing with chainable selectors 📦 Built-in Pipelines — Export to CSV, JSON, MongoDB, Google Sheets, and Firebase out of the box 🧩 Built-in Middleware — Plug in robust middlewares like Azure TLS and advanced Dupefilters 🎛️ Telemetry & TUI — Real-time terminal dashboard and global metrics monitoring 🔌 Extensible — Every layer (Scheduler, WorkerPool, Engine) is swappable and extensible
⭐ Check it out, try it, and if it clicks—give the repo a star and help it grow.
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Most web scraping today is dominated by Python—especially tools like Scrapy. It’s familiar, powerful, and widely used. But when you start scaling, something becomes clear: performance and infrastructure costs begin to hurt.
Switching to a faster language like Go sounds like the obvious next step—but the real challenge is the transition:
👉 new syntax, new patterns, and a completely different ecosystem.
🚀 Enter Goscrapy
Goscrapy bridges that gap. It’s designed for:
💡 Why it stands out
🎯 The idea is simple
With Goscrapy, you get both.
If you’ve ever thought:
This is for you.