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RetromvsTRAWL

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

RetromTRAWL
Score59/10056/100
Rank in category#3 of 5 in Emulation#11 of 16 in Web Scraping
GitHub stars2 1001 082
Stars, last 30 days+28+2
Stable releases, 12 months1010
Latest releasev0.8.4 · 14 Jun 2026v1.9.3 · 24 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseGPL-3.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

Retrom scores 59/100 against 56/100 for TRAWL, so it is the safer default.

Retrom is growing faster right now (+28 stars in 30 days).

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