Pry — Self-Hosted Web Scraping 🟢
Pry (pryscraper) is an open-source web scraping framework you run yourself. No third-party scraping API, no per-page billing, no data leaving your server.
Why self-host scraping?
- Cost: third-party scraping APIs charge per page. Pry costs one VPS.
- Privacy: scraped data never transits a vendor.
- Control: full Playwright access — sessions, cookies, headers, JS execution.
- Anti-bot handling: built-in Cloudflare/challenge bypass layer with graceful fallbacks (request → headless browser → solver).
What you get
| Feature | Status |
|---|---|
| REST API: submit URL → structured content | 🟢 Live |
| Markdown / HTML / JSON extraction | 🟢 Live |
| Cloudflare challenge bypass | 🟢 Live |
| Session persistence (cookies across requests) | 🟢 Live |
| Screenshot capture | 🟢 Live |
| Template library (pre-built extractors) | 🟡 Beta |
Live instance
The Rug Munch instance powers our research pipelines. Self-host your own: Installation →
Repo: git.rugmunch.io/RugMunchMedia/pryscraper · Product site: pryscraper.com