WebHarvest FAQs

Question 1

How does WebHarvest handle anti-bot and protected websites?

Accepted Answer

WebHarvest features an advanced, auto-escalating anti-bot bypass system. It employs strategies from TLS impersonation (curl_cffi) and browser fingerprinting (Patchright + BrowserForge) to full stealth browser rendering and CAPTCHA solving, allowing it to access even highly protected sites.

Question 2

Does WebHarvest offer an autonomous browsing agent?

Accepted Answer

Yes, WebHarvest includes an LLM-driven autonomous browser agent powered by 'browser-use'. You can give it tasks in plain English (e.g., 'Go to Hacker News and get the top 5 stories') and it will navigate, click, scroll, and extract data accordingly. It also supports natural language data extraction without selectors.

Question 3

Is WebHarvest free, open-source, and does it keep my data private?

Accepted Answer

Absolutely. WebHarvest is 100% free, open-source (MIT License), and runs entirely on your local machine. This ensures that no data ever leaves your machine, providing maximum privacy and control over your scraping operations.

Question 4

How does WebHarvest compare to Firecrawl?

Accepted Answer

WebHarvest is a free, open-source, self-hosted alternative to Firecrawl. Unlike Firecrawl, which is a paid cloud service that processes your data on its servers, WebHarvest runs locally, ensuring data privacy. It offers comparable features like anti-bot bypass and LLM extraction, using your own API keys for LLM backends and CAPTCHA solvers.

Question 5

What is WebHarvest and what are its primary functions?

Accepted Answer

WebHarvest is an open-source, self-hosted web scraper that converts any URL into agent-friendly markdown, HTML, or structured JSON. Its primary functions include intelligent web scraping, BFS website crawling, structured data extraction (with or without selectors), and autonomous browsing driven by an LLM agent.

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