The text discusses four tools for web scraping in Node.js, namely jsdom, Cheerio, Puppeteer, and Playwright. Each tool has its own strengths and weaknesses, with jsdom being a pure-JavaScript implementation of many web standards, Cheerio being a lightweight alternative to jsdom, Puppeteer providing a high-level API for controlling Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools protocol, and Playwright being a cross-browser library that works with FireFox and Webkit as well as Chrome/Chromium. The tools are compared in terms of their performance, versatility, and ease of use, with each tool having its own advantages and disadvantages. The text also provides code examples for using each tool to scrape data from a web page, including the Video Game Music Archive website. The author notes that changes to a web page's HTML may break the scraped data, highlighting the importance of keeping everything up to date.