Sweet that you went down the free route and made it an npm package, following the good way, by providing an optional upgrade to SaaS. Cool stuff. I could have used this dearly last time I scraped. Like others I used mixed methods (headless browser for renders and direct calls) and wrote a lot of error handling boilerplate.
Thanks! We really love open source and wanted to give back to the community. Crawlee is built on top of other great open-source libraries and projects. It's the best thing about building software.