Firecrawl
Turn websites into clean data for AI applications
Firecrawl crawls and scrapes entire websites, returning clean Markdown or structured JSON suitable for AI applications and RAG pipelines. The core engine can be self-hosted.
Key features
- Full-site crawling
- Clean Markdown and JSON
- Structured extraction
- Self-hostable API
Strengths
- Released under the AGPL-3.0 license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Mature project with 163k GitHub stars
- Written in TypeScript
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