Welcome Friend!

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Hello Friend and welcome to The Friendly Manual. You know, as in RTFM – ‘Read The Friendly Manual.’ (That’s right, the ‘F’ stands for ‘Friendly.’ Trust me on this, I would never lie to you about something so important.)

This project aims to showcase and promote Free/Libre and Open Source Software. It began life as a forum thread on South Africa’s number one IT website, mybroadband.co.za with community members contributing hundreds of their favourite Free or Open Source applications to a ‘Useful List of Free/Libre/Open Source Software Projects.’

The list has been hosted as a Github Gist but now we have upgraded to a website so we can make the list even more useful and publish richer content such as tutorials and blog articles.

Please check out our Friendly Free Software Directory for a list of Free software that we hope you will find interesting and useful. You can find the original forum thread HERE and the original list HERE.

Thanks for stopping by. Please check back soon for more Free and Open Source software related content.

Scrapling

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Scrapling

Website

Source Code

License: BSD-3-Clause

Description:

Scrapling is an adaptive Python web scraping framework with a Scrapy-like Spider API, dynamic fetchers, proxy rotation, and AI integration. It supports full crawls, session-based requests, and automatic element relocation as sites change. It bypasses anti-bot measures and provides a fast, memory-efficient pipeline for scalable data extraction.

brush

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brush

Website

Source Code

License: MIT

Description:

brush is a Bash/POSIX-compatible shell written in Rust. It preserves existing scripts and .bashrc usage, adding syntax highlighting and auto-suggestions. It aims for Bash compatibility with 50+ builtins, full expansions, and programmable completion, while offering Rust-friendly embedding via brush_core.