AlternativeTo Scraper

Extract software alternatives, user votes, platform availability, and feature tags from AlternativeTo. Built on spider-browser .

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target
alternativeto.net: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

alternativeto-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://alternativeto.net/software/slack/");
await page.content();

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const alternatives = [];
  document.querySelectorAll(".app-listing-item").forEach(el => {
    const name = el.querySelector(".app-listing-title a")?.textContent?.trim();
    const likes = el.querySelector(".like-count")?.textContent?.trim();
    const platforms = [];
    el.querySelectorAll(".platform-icon").forEach(p => platforms.push(p.getAttribute("title")));
    const license = el.querySelector(".app-listing-license")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (name) alternatives.push({ name, likes, platforms, license });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: alternatives.length, alternatives: alternatives.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();

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Fetch API

One endpoint for alternativeto.net.

Structured JSON from alternativeto.net with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

POST /fetch/alternativeto.net/

Software nameLikesAlternatives countPlatformsTagsLicense

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cURL

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/alternativeto.net/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

Python

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/alternativeto.net/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

Node.js

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/alternativeto.net/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);

Extraction