crw

Fast, lightweight Firecrawl/Tavily alternative in Rust. Web scraper, crawler & search API with MCP server for AI agents. Drop-in Firecrawl-compatible API (/scrape, /crawl, /search). 2.3x faster than Tavily, 1.5x faster than Firecrawl in 1K-URL benchmarks. 6 MB

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ai ai-agents crawlerAGPL-3.0RustSelf-hostable

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Convert web pages into clean text or structured data quickly with a web scraping tool.

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2026-07-202026-08-31

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crw has 889 stars on GitHub. It has been forked 60 times. crw is written mainly in Rust. It has been in active development since 2026. crw is available under the AGPL-3.0 license. Its main topics are ai, ai-agents, crawler, data-extraction.

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Is crw open source?

crw is an open-source project. It is released under the AGPL-3.0 license.

Is crw free?

Yes. crw is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it. Its AGPL-3.0 license is a strong copyleft: if you distribute a modified version — including offering it as a network service — your changes must be released under the same license.