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lux vs scrapecraft
lux has 31,686 GitHub stars, 3,312 forks, 545 open issues and last shipped 6 months ago. scrapecraft has 698 stars, 112 forks, 1 open issues and last shipped 9 months ago. lux leads on adoption by 4,440% (31,686 vs 698 stars). lux is written in Go under MIT; scrapecraft is written in Python under MIT. lux has attracted 10% as many forks as stars, scrapecraft 16%. lux was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee.
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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| lux | scrapecraft | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 32K | ★ 698 |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | Go | Python |
| Last push | 2026-03-29 | 2025-12-26 |
| Forks | ⑂ 3.3K | ⑂ 112 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick lux if
- You weight community size — 32K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick scrapecraft if
- You want the scrapecraft feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Python
- You evaluated both and scrapecraft fits your workflow better
About lux
Lux is a video download library and command line tool written in Go, released under the MIT license. It ships as a single lux binary that takes one or more URLs and retrieves the underlying media streams, and it also exposes the downloading logic as a Go library that other programs can embed. The project has existed for roughly nine years and lives in the Go ecosystem, distributed through go install alongside the usual operating system package managers.
About scrapecraft
ScrapeCraft is an MIT licensed, web based scraping editor — described in its README as similar to Cursor but specialized for web scraping — that lets users build, test, and deploy scrapers through a visual workflow builder and natural language AI assistance, and it is aimed at developers and data teams who already work in Python or TypeScript and want extraction pipelines assembled rather than hand coded.
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Frequently asked questions
Is lux or scrapecraft more popular?
lux has 31,686 GitHub stars and scrapecraft has 698. lux has the larger community by that measure.
Are lux and scrapecraft free?
Both are open source. lux is licensed under MIT and scrapecraft under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between lux and scrapecraft?
lux is written in Go and scrapecraft in Python. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, lux or scrapecraft?
Choose lux if you want the larger community (31,686 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose scrapecraft if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.