samuelclay/NewsBlur
A feed reader that learns which stories are wanted and hides the rest, running since 2009 and self-hostable.
jhuckaby/Cronicle
A scheduled job runner with a web interface, keeping the output and timing of every past run across one or several servers.
kestra-io/kestra
Runs scheduled and event-driven workflows declared in YAML, with a web interface showing every run and every step.
FreshRSS/FreshRSS
Gathers the feeds you follow into one page you control, with several accounts, labels, filters and the standard mobile-app interface.
mgdm/htmlq
Pulls parts out of an HTML page using CSS selectors, the way a JSON query tool pulls parts out of JSON.
omkarcloud/botasaurus
A Python framework for collecting data from web pages that are trying to block automated visitors.
D4Vinci/Scrapling
A Python scraping toolkit that stores structural context alongside each selector, so an element can still be found after a site is redesigned.
searxng/searxng
Self-hosted metasearch engine, considered as a way to get rank-tracking data without paying for a SERP API.
tfeldmann/organize
It sorts, renames and moves files according to rules you write in a small text file.
NotJoeMartinez/yt-fts 💎 hidden gem
Full-text and semantic search across every subtitle of a whole YouTube channel — competitor research at transcript level.
apify/crawlee
A crawling framework for JavaScript that keeps the queue, the retries and the rate limits so you only write the part that reads the page.
unclecode/crawl4ai
A crawler that drives a real browser and returns web pages as clean Markdown, ready for a language model.
lexiforest/curl-impersonate 💎 hidden gem
A build of curl whose TLS and HTTP/2 handshakes match a real browser's, so pages that refuse automated visitors answer normally.
mikf/gallery-dl
A command-line downloader for image galleries and collections across hundreds of sites, with configurable filename templates and three ways to authenticate.
0x2E/fusion 💎 hidden gem
A self-hosted RSS and Atom reader that runs as one Go binary in about 50 MB of memory, with a Fever API so existing phone apps can sync against it.
dagucloud/dagu
A workflow scheduler shipped as one file that keeps its state in ordinary files, so there is no database, no message queue and no worker to install.
webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler 💎 hidden gem
Drives real Chromium browsers to record a page as a viewer actually saw it, writing a standard WACZ archive plus the page text.
lycheeverse/lychee
Fast link checker in Rust — ideal for CI on every deploy, including links inside Markdown docs.
activepieces/activepieces
An open-source alternative to Zapier, and the MIT-licensed competitor to n8n.
healthchecks/healthchecks
Gives every scheduled job a URL to call when it finishes, and alerts you when the call does not arrive.
windmill-labs/windmill
Turns a script you already have into a scheduled job with a generated web form and a log of every run.
jmbannon/ytdl-sub 💎 hidden gem
A YAML subscription layer over yt-dlp — competitors' new uploads arrive nightly with metadata attached.
dgtlmoon/changedetection.io
A watcher on every competitor's pricing page, so you find out the day it changes rather than the quarter.
firecrawl/firecrawl
trafilatura on a single URL is 20ms and free. Firecrawl on a whole domain, JS-rendered, in structured JSON, is where the real research goes.
egbertbouman/youtube-comment-downloader 💎 hidden gem
Every comment under any YouTube video as JSON — no key, no quota. The complaints under competitors' tutorials are your next ten video titles.
janreges/siteone-crawler 💎 hidden gem
One command, one HTML report: broken links, redirects, titles, descriptions, image weight, response times.
praw-dev/praw
The mature Python client for Reddit's official API — search the archive where buyers describe the problem in their own words.
adbar/trafilatura
Extracts the actual article from any web page as clean Markdown, with no browser and negligible memory.
eliasdabbas/advertools 💎 hidden gem
Python toolkit built by a working SEO practitioner — crawling, sitemaps, SERP analysis, keyword generation.
yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Whole-channel YouTube metadata as JSON — titles, tags, thumbnails, subtitles, upload dates — with no API key or quota.
jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api
Fetches any YouTube video's subtitles with no API key and no quota — competitor research as plain text, tonight.
procrastinate-org/procrastinate 💎 hidden gem
PostgreSQL-backed task queue for Python — the background worker four editions of product advice quietly assumed he already had.
DIYgod/RSSHub
Turns almost any page into an RSS feed — Reddit searches, YouTube channels, Hacker News — so competitor and keyword monitoring becomes a notification.
simonw/shot-scraper 💎 hidden gem
One YAML file regenerates every screenshot on the site — and since v1.10 it records WebM demo clips too.
sns-sdks/python-youtube 💎 hidden gem
Clean typed Python wrapper for the YouTube Data API — competitor catalogues, weekly deltas and description chores in a cron job.
n8n-io/n8n
Visual workflow automation — the hub that wires every other tool on this list into one pipeline.
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