gocolly

    gocolly/colly

    Elegant Scraper and Crawler Framework for Golang

    25.6K stars
    1.9K forks
    313 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 8, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 591 days ago, with 116 contributors on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a fast and elegant web scraping and crawling framework for Go developers to extract structured data from websites.
    • Offers a clean API with high performance, automatic cookie handling, concurrency control, and support for distributed scraping.
    • Use for building custom web crawlers to collect data from multiple linked web pages efficiently.
    • Use for automating data mining tasks that require handling sessions, delays, and robots.txt compliance.
    • Use for creating scalable scrapers that run synchronously or asynchronously with caching and encoding support.

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    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

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    From the README

    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.

    See examples folder for more detailed examples.

    Excerpt from the gocolly/colly README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

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    Forks

    1.9K+2

    Open issues

    195+2

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