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maxunvsurl-to-png

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

maxunurl-to-png
Score74/10049/100
Rank in category#4 of 16 in Web Scraping#13 of 16 in Web Scraping
GitHub stars18 077256
Stars, last 30 days+516+0
Stable releases, 12 months172
Latest releasev0.1.0 · 25 Oct 2026v2.1.4 · 18 Apr 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0MIT
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

maxun scores 74/100 against 49/100 for url-to-png, so it is the safer default.

maxun ships more often: 17 stable releases in the past year, against 2 for url-to-png.

If you want the quickest setup, url-to-png is easier to run; maxun needs more configuration.

maxun is growing faster right now (+516 stars in 30 days).

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