spider

★ 2.8k

llm-for-zotero

★ 3.4k

spider vs llm-for-zotero

Q: Which is better, spider or llm-for-zotero?

By GitHub stars, llm-for-zotero has more community adoption, but the best choice depends on your specific use case.

spider: Spider is a concurrency-first crawling engine in Rust. It fetches over HTTP first and launches headless Chrome only for pages that need JavaScript, streams pages as they arrive, and scales from one script to a distributed worker fleet with the same API. It is available as a Rust crate, CLI, Node.js and Python packages and an MCP server, and the same engine powers the paid Spider Cloud service.; llm-for-zotero: llm-for-zotero is a Zotero plugin that lets you chat with the current PDF, figures and selected text, get answers with citations that jump to the source passage, and save results to Zotero notes or Markdown folders. Agent Mode adds library-wide search, tagging and note editing, with backends from API keys and local models to ChatGPT WebChat, Codex App Server and Claude Code.

TL;DR

spiderData Processing · ★ 2.8k

Feeding web content into vector stores for RAG pipelines

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llm-for-zoteroRAG / Knowledge Base · ★ 3.4k

Summarizing and questioning papers while reading

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Features

spider

01HTTP-first crawling that launches headless Chrome only when a page needs JavaScript

02Streams pages through a subscription channel as they are fetched

03Configurable limits, depth, delay, subdomains, user agent and robots.txt handling

04Rust, CLI, Node.js, Python and MCP server packages

05Exports to Markdown, JSON or WARC, with 50+ runnable examples

llm-for-zotero

01Grounded paper chat with clickable citations back to the Zotero passage

02Figure screenshots and file uploads (PDF, DOCX, PPTX, TXT, Markdown) as context

03Agent Mode for library-wide search, tagging, metadata, import and note editing, with 8 built-in skills

04Notes saved to Zotero or local Markdown folders such as Obsidian and Logseq

05MinerU PDF parsing for tables, equations and figures

Use Cases

spider

↳Feeding web content into vector stores for RAG pipelines

↳Monitoring sites for SEO or price changes

↳Giving AI agents a crawler through the MCP server

llm-for-zotero

↳Summarizing and questioning papers while reading

↳Literature reviews across a whole Zotero library

↳Comparing methods across several open papers

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llm-for-zotero

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FAQ

What is the difference between spider and llm-for-zotero?

Both spider and llm-for-zotero are in the Data Processing category. spider has 2.8k stars, while llm-for-zotero has 3.4k stars.

Which is better, spider or llm-for-zotero?

The best choice depends on your use case. Choose spider if Feeding web content into vector stores for RAG pipelines, and llm-for-zotero if Summarizing and questioning papers while reading.

Is spider free or open source?

Yes, spider is open source on GitHub (MIT).

Is llm-for-zotero free or open source?

Yes, llm-for-zotero is open source on GitHub (AGPL-3.0).

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