flyscrape ☆

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Description:
Standalone and scriptable web scraper

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: scraping web-scraping automation cli lua

Install: brew install flyscrape

About:
Flyscrape is a command-line tool designed for programmatic web scraping. It combines the performance of Go with the flexibility of Lua scripting, allowing users to define scraping logic in a simple, declarative manner. This approach makes it ideal for developers needing to extract data from websites without the overhead of complex browser automation frameworks.

Key Features:

High performance via a Go backend
Flexible Lua scripting for data extraction
No browser or Node.js dependency required
Built-in support for HTTP clients, headers, and cookies

Use Cases:

Automating data extraction from websites for market research
Monitoring web pages for content changes or price updates
Integrating web data into external applications or APIs

Alternatives:

Scrapy – Scrapy is a powerful Python framework but requires a Python environment and is more complex to set up.
pup – pup is a command-line tool for parsing HTML, but Flyscrape offers more advanced scripting and request handling.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 13, 2025 5:20pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	d51728d9
Sep 13, 2024 7:07am		0	VERSION_BUMP	812fe057