Scrapy
We help maintain it
Two of our engineers are core contributors to Scrapy, the most widely used open-source web scraping framework — the same one every Bitmaker spider is built on.
Open Source
Two of Scrapy's core maintainers work on our team.
Open source isn't a side project at Bitmaker — it's how we build our own tools, including Estela, our self-hostable spider orchestration platform, released under the MIT license.
MIT licensed
Scrapy core team
No lock-in
MIT licensed
Scrapy core team
Self-hosted or managed
No lock-in
Why it matters
We love open source
Open information exchange, transparent development, and giving back to the ecosystem we rely on every day — that's not a policy here, it's how our engineering team already works.
Estela
We give our tools away
Estela, our spider orchestration platform, is released under the MIT license and free to self-host — no paywall on the core software, ever.
GitHub
We build in the open
Issues, pull requests, and the roadmap are public. "Good first issue" and "help wanted" labels mark where new contributors can start.
Flagship project
MIT license · free to self-host
Estela: open source by design
Spiders deploy through the CLI or the Web UI, run as isolated Kubernetes jobs, and are orchestrated by a Django REST and Celery API — the same core Bitmaker runs in production, in your own cluster or ours.
Stars
196+
on GitHub
Forks
18
community forks
Commits
450+
and counting
Active
5+ yrs
in development
Self-host it yourself on any Kubernetes cluster — on-premise, AWS, GCP, or Azure — or let our team run it for you with Estela Commercial Support.
Get involved
Star it, fork it, send a PR.
Estela's issues and roadmap are public — "good first issue" and "help wanted" labels mark where to start. Small, tested pull requests with doc updates are the fastest way in.