Playwright

Playwright is a versatile tool designed mainly for testing applications and end-to-end web testing, but it’s increasingly popular among web scrapers for automating browser actions. The library was developed by Microsoft.

The scraping process with Playwright involves controlling a headless browser – one that doesn’t display a user interface. Playwright allows users to automate tasks such as scrolling, clicking, and downloading files, just as if they were using a mouse.

Playwright supports major browsers like Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit, and works across different operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and macOS. It also supports both asynchronous and synchronous methods for scraping multiple pages at the same time. 

Additionally,  it uses its own cookies to manage sessions, which is particularly handy for emulating different user interactions. This is important when scraping data from JavaScript-rendered sites. What’s more, the library uses a WebSocket connection that stays open while web scraping. This allows you to send requests in one go, reducing latency and improving performance.