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maxunvsTRAWL

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

maxunTRAWL
Score74/10056/100
Rank in category#4 of 16 in Web Scraping#11 of 16 in Web Scraping
GitHub stars18 0791 081
Stars, last 30 days+518+1
Stable releases, 12 months1710
Latest releasev0.1.0 · 25 Oct 2026v1.9.3 · 24 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

maxun scores 74/100 against 56/100 for TRAWL, so it is the safer default.

maxun ships more often: 17 stable releases in the past year, against 10 for TRAWL.

maxun is growing faster right now (+518 stars in 30 days).

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