BREAKING
8 Open-Source AI Web Scrapers
From Selectors to LLM-Driven
GitHub Stars by Tool
Firecrawl
130
browser-use
103
Scrapling
68.5
Crawl4AI
67.8
Scrapy
54.8
Firecrawl vs Crawl4AI
Firecrawl
130k+
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URL to Markdown/JSON
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Handles JS-heavy pages
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Paid plans costly at scale
Crawl4AI
67.8k
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No API key needed
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Offline with local LLMs
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Free Firecrawl alternative
Each Tool, A Different Role
1
browser-use: acts like a human
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2
Scrapling: self-healing parser
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3
curl-impersonate: bypass anti-bot
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4
Scrapy: millions of pages
Open Source Cuts Lock-In
AI NEWS BLITZ
Eight mostly free open-source tools are reshaping web data extraction for AI.