mdowis / anansi
A self-healing scraper for hostile sites: broken selectors repair themselves, browser rendering kicks in when needed, and a coherent identity layer (Chrome TLS fingerprints, matched personas, vendor-aware Cloudflare/Akamai/DataDome handling) works to slip past bot detection. Ships with an MCP server so any LLM can drive a full crawl by conversation.
Why this job: says: scraper; topics: web-scraping, crawler
What it does
- Selectors that repair themselves. CSS selectors carry confidence scores; when one breaks, four healing strategies compete and the winner is persisted. How it works →
- A browser only when you need one. every response is checked for JS shells and silently retried in a stealth Playwright browser, cached per domain. How it works →
- A coherent anti-bot identity. matched TLS/HTTP-2 fingerprint, persona, and headers, with vendor-aware handling of Cloudflare, Akamai, and DataDome, plus an opt-in Patchright engine for CDP-level stealth. Anti-bot & identity →
- Re-crawls that skip the unchanged. ETag, Last-Modified, content hashing, and sitemap filtering skip pages before the request goes out. Capabilities →
- Data you can trust. attach a Pydantic item_schema and every scraped item is validated and coerced before it hits your database. Getting started →
Get started
No single install command. Read the steps in the README (opens in new tab)
- Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit 2 months ago
- Stars
- 117
- On GitHub
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- None listed
- No release files
- Latest version
- v1.2.0
- Released 2 months ago
- Built with
- Python
- 100% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 1
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 100% closed
- 0 still open
- Pull requests
- 12 merged
- 0 waiting
- Releases
- 4
- 4 in the last year
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Languages
- Python 100%
Topics
- adaptive-scraping
- ai-agent
- anti-bot
- concurrent-processing
- crawler
- data-extraction
- llm-tools
- mcp
- mcp-server
- pydantic
- python
- self-healing
Project record
- JobAutomation and scraping
- StatusListed
- Commits62
- Forks23
- Watching2
- Stars in 28 days+1
- CreatedMay 14, 2026
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 7, 2026