Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/JoeanAmier/XHS-Downloader/vs/unclecode/crawl4ai
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/JoeanAmier/XHS-Downloader/vs/unclecode/crawl4ai.md
Description: XHS-Downloader and crawl4ai share 5 technologies: FastAPI, uvicorn, aiosqlite, SQLite, and lxml. XHS-Downloader is written in JavaScript and crawl4ai in Python.

# XHS-Downloader vs crawl4ai

XHS-Downloader and crawl4ai share 5 technologies: FastAPI, uvicorn, aiosqlite, SQLite, and lxml. XHS-Downloader is written in JavaScript and crawl4ai in Python.

- [JoeanAmier/XHS-Downloader](https://seerepo.com/r/JoeanAmier/XHS-Downloader): 小红书（XiaoHongShu、RedNote）链接提取/作品采集工具
- [unclecode/crawl4ai](https://seerepo.com/r/unclecode/crawl4ai): Official Crawl4AI Cloud: a hosted web scraping, extraction, and search API for AI agents. Free API key, 1,000 credits a month, no card. Fully open source: this repo is the Apache-2.0 crawler that powers it, and you can self-host it.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: FastAPI, uvicorn, aiosqlite, SQLite, lxml
- Only in XHS-Downloader: pywebview, Textual
- Only in crawl4ai: Redis, AIOHTTP, anyio, Rich, pyjwt, unclecode-litellm, rank-bm25, nltk, MCP, beautifulsoup4, pillow, pdf2image, pypdf, email-validator, Pydantic, Gunicorn, psutil, prometheus-fastapi-instrumentator

## Side by side

| | XHS-Downloader | crawl4ai |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 15,118 lines written, 56 code files | 176,861 lines written, 105 code files |
| Who writes it | 0% of its commits signed by AI | 4.4% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Factory, Cursor, CodeRabbit, and Devin |
| Activity | Last push November 7, 2026, 512 commits, 13,254 stars | Last push November 4, 2026, 1,446 commits, 87,130 stars |
| Tests | 0 test files | 286 test files. 56.2% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, XHS-Downloader or crawl4ai?

crawl4ai, with 176,861 lines written; XHS-Downloader has 15,118.

The proof: [unclecode/crawl4ai's code at commit cae74b2](https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/tree/cae74b203a33994f7e13b9052c3b0d5c93daa0e6)

### Which has more GitHub stars, XHS-Downloader or crawl4ai?

crawl4ai, with 87,130 stars; XHS-Downloader has 13,254.

The proof: [unclecode/crawl4ai on GitHub](https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai)

### Which has more tests, XHS-Downloader or crawl4ai?

crawl4ai, with 286 test files.

The proof: [unclecode/crawl4ai's code at commit cae74b2](https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/tree/cae74b203a33994f7e13b9052c3b0d5c93daa0e6)

### Which was updated more recently, XHS-Downloader or crawl4ai?

XHS-Downloader: its last push was on November 7, 2026, and crawl4ai's on November 4, 2026.

The proof: [JoeanAmier/XHS-Downloader's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/JoeanAmier/XHS-Downloader/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, XHS-Downloader or crawl4ai?

crawl4ai: an AI signed 4.4% of its commits, with Claude Code, Factory, Cursor, CodeRabbit, and Devin.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in unclecode/crawl4ai](https://seerepo.com/r/unclecode/crawl4ai/ai)

## Sources

- JoeanAmier/XHS-Downloader: Read on November 10, 2026, at commit dfad51b (https://github.com/JoeanAmier/XHS-Downloader/tree/dfad51b3d1aac55866802007544f9390ad21553f)
- unclecode/crawl4ai: Read on November 9, 2026, at commit cae74b2 (https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/tree/cae74b203a33994f7e13b9052c3b0d5c93daa0e6)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.