Crawlab is a distributed web scraping platform designed to centralize the management, deployment, and execution of large-scale data extraction tasks. It functions as a control plane that orchestrates scraping scripts and automated workflows across multiple nodes, providing a unified environment for managing complex data collection operations.
The platform distinguishes itself through a distributed architecture that coordinates worker nodes via a central master, utilizing real-time communication to maintain oversight of all active processes. It ensures operational consistency by isolating task execution within containerized environments and managing project dependencies across the entire infrastructure.
Beyond core orchestration, the system provides comprehensive monitoring and observability tools to track crawler performance and identify bottlenecks in real time. It also includes integrated data pipeline capabilities that automate the synchronization of extracted results into external databases, supported by a plugin-based architecture for mapping data to various storage schemas.
