This covers the actual stages of scraping AI-adjacent data: rendering a real browser (browser-use), stripping a page down to clean text (trafilatura), letting an LLM decide what to extract (Scrapegraph-ai), turning a page into LLM-ready markdown (crawl4ai), and evading bot detection when a site fights back (HeadlessX). That last one is tested against a different question than the other four — does it get past detection, not is the extracted output clean — and its entry below reflects that directly from its own review, not a rewritten version of the others' framing.
Verdicts, star counts, and review dates below are pulled live from each tool's own review. If any of these gets re-tested and the verdict changes, this list reflects that the same day, with no separate update needed here.