# Best Python research & data agents

> The open-source research & data agents written in Python, from the Agent Search Engine index — ranked by real maintained adoption (GitHub stars and recent commit activity), never by sponsorship. Every project here is Python-first, self-hostable, and free to run; the trade-off is you host and maintain it yourself.

Right now it's led by Scrapling (72k stars), with TrendRadar and BettaFish close behind. Rankings shift as projects gain stars and ship commits.

19 open-source records, ranked by maintained GitHub adoption; sponsorship never affects the ranking. Browse on the web: https://agentsearchengine.app/best/python-research-agents

## Ranked

1. [Scrapling](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/scrapling) — An adaptive Web Scraping framework that handles everything from a single request to a full-scale crawl! · Open source · Infrastructure · 72k★ · Python · BSD-3-Clause · active 4 days ago · best for scraping sites that change layout or block bots, with selectors that self-repair
2. [TrendRadar](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/trendradar) — AI-driven public opinion & trend monitor with multi-platform aggregation, RSS, and smart alerts. · Open source · Agent · 61k★ · Python · GPL-3.0 · active 17 days ago · best for filtering trending news into push alerts on wechat, telegram, feishu, or slack
3. [BettaFish](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/bettafish) — 微舆：人人可用的多Agent舆情分析助手，打破信息茧房，还原舆情原貌，预测未来走向，辅助决策！从0实现，不依赖任何框架。 · Open source · Agent · 42k★ · Python · GPL-2.0 · active 13 days ago · best for multi-agent sentiment analysis across social platforms and large comment datasets
4. [khoj](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/khoj) — Your AI second brain. Self-hostable. Get answers from the web or your docs. Build custom agents, schedule automations, do deep research. · Open source · Agent · 36k★ · Python · AGPL-3.0 · active 1 day ago · best for a self-hostable ai second brain over your notes and documents
5. [storm](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/storm) — An LLM-powered knowledge curation system that researches a topic and generates a full-length report with citations. · Open source · Agent · 31k★ · Python · MIT · active 10 months ago · best for generating wikipedia-style researched reports with citations from an open-source system
6. [gpt-researcher](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/gpt-researcher) — An autonomous agent that conducts deep research on any data using any LLM providers · Open source · Agent · 29k★ · Python · Apache-2.0 · active 16 days ago · best for self-hosted autonomous research reports with your own api keys
7. [haystack](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/haystack) — Open-source AI orchestration framework for building context-engineered, production-ready LLM applications. · Open source · Framework · 26k★ · Python · Apache-2.0 · active 2 days ago · best for modular python pipelines for production rag, search, and agent workflows
8. [DeepResearch](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/deepresearch) — Tongyi Deep Research, the Leading Open-source Deep Research Agent · Open source · Agent · 20k★ · Python · Apache-2.0 · active 5 months ago · best for running alibaba's tongyi deepresearch model locally for deep research tasks
9. [local-deep-research](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/local-deep-research) — ~95% on SimpleQA (e.g. Qwen3.6-27B on a 3090). Supports all local and cloud LLMs (llama.cpp, Ollama, Google,...). 10+ search engines - arXiv, PubMed, your private documents. · Open source · Agent · 8.8k★ · Python · MIT · active today
10. [MiroThinker](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/mirothinker) — MiroThinker is a deep research agent optimized for complex research and prediction tasks. Our latest models, MiroThinker-1.7, achieves 74.0 and 75.3 on the BrowseComp and BrowseComp Zh, respectively. · Open source · Agent · 8.4k★ · Python · Apache-2.0 · active 28 days ago
11. [deep-searcher](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/deep-searcher) — Open Source Deep Research Alternative to Reason and Search on Private Data. Written in Python. · Open source · Agent · 8.0k★ · Python · Apache-2.0 · active 8 months ago
12. [unstract](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/unstract) — LLM-Driven Extraction of Unstructured Data — Built for API Deployments & ETL Pipeline Workflows · Open source · Platform · 7.1k★ · Python · AGPL-3.0 · active 1 day ago
13. [DeepAnalyze](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/deepanalyze) — DeepAnalyze is the first agentic LLM for autonomous data science. 你的AI数据分析师，自动分析大量数据，一键生成专业分析报告！ · Open source · Agent · 4.4k★ · Python · MIT · active 1 month ago
14. [ms-agent](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/ms-agent) — MS-Agent: a lightweight framework to empower agentic execution of complex tasks · Open source · Framework · 4.4k★ · Python · Apache-2.0 · active 3 days ago
15. [MiroFlow](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/miroflow) — Top-1 on 5+ benchmarks | Web UI | Supports MiroThinker, Claude, Kimi, OpenAI · Open source · Framework · 3.1k★ · Python · Apache-2.0 · active 28 days ago
16. [Adala](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/adala) — Adala: Autonomous DAta (Labeling) Agent framework · Open source · Framework · 1.6k★ · Python · Apache-2.0 · active 6 days ago
17. [ToolUniverse](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/tooluniverse) — Democratizing AI scientists with ToolUniverse · Open source · SDK / library · 1.6k★ · Python · Apache-2.0 · active today
18. [Auto-Deep-Research](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/auto-deep-research) — "Your Fully-Automated Personal AI Assistant" · Open source · Agent · 1.6k★ · Python · active 9 months ago
19. [TrustRAG](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/trustrag) — TrustRAG：The RAG Framework within Reliable input,Trusted output · Open source · Framework · 1.3k★ · Python · active 6 months ago

## FAQ

**What are the best Python research & data agents?**
The Python projects listed below, ranked by maintained adoption — GitHub stars plus recent commit activity — so you see what's genuinely used and still maintained, not abandoned.

**Are these Python research & data agents open source and free?**
Yes — every project on this page is open source and written primarily in Python. The software is free to run and self-host; you still pay for the infrastructure you run it on and any model or API usage it makes.

**Why choose Python research & data agents specifically?**
Staying in your team's primary language — Python — makes self-hosting, extending, and debugging far easier, because you can read and modify the source directly instead of treating it as a black box.

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