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
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Sep 13, 2025 5:20pm 0 VERSION_BUMP d51728d9
Sep 13, 2024 7:07am 0 VERSION_BUMP 812fe057
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