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    Elegant Scraper and Crawler Framework for Golang

    automation
    crawler
    crawling
    framework
    go
    golang
    Go
    Apache-2.0
    25.5K stars
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    25.5K GitHub watchers
    Updated 9/1/2026
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    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a fast and elegant web scraping and crawling framework for Go developers.
    • Offers a clean API with built-in support for concurrency, request management, and session handling.
    • Use for extracting structured data from websites for data mining or archiving purposes.
    • Use for building distributed web crawlers that respect robots.txt and manage request delays.
    • Use for automating data collection tasks with support for caching, encoding, and asynchronous scraping.

    About colly

    Colly

    Lightning Fast and Elegant Scraping Framework for Gophers

    Colly provides a clean interface to write any kind of crawler/scraper/spider.

    With Colly you can easily extract structured data from websites, which can be used for a wide range of applications, like data mining, data processing or archiving.

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    Features

    • Clean API
    • Fast (>1k request/sec on a single core)
    • Manages request delays and maximum concurrency per domain
    • Automatic cookie and session handling
    • Sync/async/parallel scraping
    • Caching
    • Automatic encoding of non-unicode responses
    • Robots.txt support
    • Distributed scraping
    • Configuration via environment variables
    • Extensions

    Example

    func main() {
    	c := colly.NewCollector()
    
    	// Find and visit all links
    	c.OnHTML("a[href]", func(e *colly.HTMLElement) {
    		e.Request.Visit(e.Attr("href"))
    	})
    
    	c.OnRequest(func(r *colly.Request) {
    		fmt.Println("Visiting", r.URL)
    	})
    
    	c.Visit("http://go-colly.org/")
    }
    

    See examples folder for more detailed examples.

    Installation

    Add colly to your go.mod file:

    module github.com/x/y
    
    go 1.14
    
    require (
            github.com/gocolly/colly/v2 latest
    )
    

    Bugs

    Bugs or suggestions? Visit the issue tracker or join #colly on freenode

    Other Projects Using Colly

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    If you are using Colly in a project please send a pull request to add it to the list.

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