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EasySpider vs spider
EasySpider has 44,565 GitHub stars, 5,387 forks, 271 open issues and last shipped yesterday. spider has 2,721 stars, 302 forks, 1 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. EasySpider leads on adoption by 1,538% (44,565 vs 2,721 stars). EasySpider is written in JavaScript under AGPL-3.0; spider is written in Rust under MIT. EasySpider has attracted 12% as many forks as stars, spider 11%. EasySpider was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (crawler), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| EasySpider | spider | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 45K | ★ 2.7K |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Written in | JavaScript | Rust |
| Last push | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-16 |
| Forks | ⑂ 5.4K | ⑂ 302 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick EasySpider if
- You weight community size — 45K stars and counting
- You want the AGPL-3.0 license terms
- Your stack matches JavaScript
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick spider if
- You want the spider feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Rust
- You evaluated both and spider fits your workflow better
About EasySpider
EasySpider is a visual, code free web crawler and browser automation tool distributed on GitHub under the AGPL 3.0 license. It is written in JavaScript as a graphical application and lives in the web scraping and data extraction ecosystem, sitting alongside browser automation testing tools. It also carries the alias ServiceWrapper, described as an intelligent service encapsulation system for web applications. Development spans roughly six years, with the latest push recorded in September 2026.
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About spider
Spider The fastest web crawler and scraper for Rust. spider.cloud · Guides · Docs · Examples · Discord Spider is a concurrency first crawling engine written in Rust. It streams pages as they arrive, renders JavaScript only on pages that need it, and scales from a single script to a distributed fleet without changing your code. The same engine runs Spider Cloud, so you can prototype locally and move to managed infrastructure with one config change. Start in the cloud The hardest part of crawling at scale isn't the code. It's the proxies, headless browsers, and constant anti bot churn. Spider Cloud runs all of that…
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Frequently asked questions
Is EasySpider or spider more popular?
EasySpider has 44,565 GitHub stars and spider has 2,721. EasySpider has the larger community by that measure.
Are EasySpider and spider free?
Both are open source. EasySpider is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and spider under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between EasySpider and spider?
EasySpider is written in JavaScript and spider in Rust. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, EasySpider or spider?
Choose EasySpider if you want the larger community (44,565 stars) or its AGPL-3.0 licence terms. Choose spider if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.