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Scrapling vs TumblThree
Scrapling has 92,628 GitHub stars, 9,759 forks, 6 open issues and last shipped yesterday. TumblThree has 742 stars, 87 forks, 38 open issues and last shipped 16 days ago. Scrapling leads on adoption by 12,384% (92,628 vs 742 stars). Scrapling is written in Python under BSD-3-Clause; TumblThree is written in C# under MIT. Scrapling has attracted 11% as many forks as stars, TumblThree 12%. Scrapling 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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| Scrapling | TumblThree | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 93K | ★ 742 |
| License | BSD-3-Clause | MIT |
| Written in | Python | C# |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-10-18 |
| Forks | ⑂ 9.8K | ⑂ 87 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick Scrapling if
- You weight community size — 93K stars and counting
- You want the BSD-3-Clause license terms
- Your stack matches Python
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick TumblThree if
- You want the TumblThree feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches C#
- You evaluated both and TumblThree fits your workflow better
About Scrapling
Effortless Web Scraping for the Modern Web Selection methods · Fetchers · Spiders · Proxy Rotation · CLI · MCP Scrapling is an adaptive Web Scraping framework that handles everything from a single request to a full scale crawl. Its parser learns from website changes and automatically relocates your elements when pages update. Its fetchers bypass anti bot systems like Cloudflare Turnstile out of the box. And its spider framework lets you scale up to concurrent, multi session crawls with pause/resume, automatic proxy rotation, and a crawl speed that adapts to how fast each…
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About TumblThree
TumblThree A Tumblr Blog Backup Application TumblThree is a free and open source Tumblr and Twitter blog backup application. It downloads photo, video, audio and text posts from a given Tumblr or Twitter blog. It is the code rewrite of TumblTwo, using the Win Application Framework (WAF) and C with WPF and the MVVM pattern. Features Source code at GitHub (written in C using WPF and MVVM) Multiple concurrent downloads of a single blog and/or different blogs A clipboard monitor that detects blogname.tumblr.com urls in the clipboard (copy and paste) and automatically adds the blog to the bloglist A settings panel…
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Frequently asked questions
Is Scrapling or TumblThree more popular?
Scrapling has 92,628 GitHub stars and TumblThree has 742. Scrapling has the larger community by that measure.
Are Scrapling and TumblThree free?
Both are open source. Scrapling is licensed under BSD-3-Clause and TumblThree under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between Scrapling and TumblThree?
Scrapling is written in Python and TumblThree in C#. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, Scrapling or TumblThree?
Choose Scrapling if you want the larger community (92,628 stars) or its BSD-3-Clause licence terms. Choose TumblThree if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.