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crawler-buddyvsskyvern

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

crawler-buddyskyvern
Score43/10075/100
Rank in category#14 of 16 in Web Scraping#3 of 26 in Automation
GitHub stars25823 295
Stars, last 30 days—+237
Stable releases, 12 months026
Latest release—v1.0.56 · 14 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseGPL-3.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageHTMLPython

Which one should you pick?

skyvern scores 75/100 against 43/100 for crawler-buddy, so it is the safer default.

skyvern ships more often: 26 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for crawler-buddy.

skyvern is growing faster right now (+237 stars in 30 days).

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