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 RAM, single binary. Self-host or use managed cloud.
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What it does
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 RAM, single binary. Self-host or use managed cloud.
May suit
People who want an AI system to plan or carry out multi-step tasks.
Before you try it
The repository reports a AGPL-3.0 license. Setup difficulty and device support still need to be checked upstream.
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- Limited confidence
- Maintenance signal
- Healthy66/100
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Health Score Breakdown
Star Momentum
0
Commit Frequency
100
Issue Health
100
Contributors
55
Release Cadence
50
Documentation
100
Community Signal
50
Project Info
- Language
- Rust
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Last Commit
- 1mo ago
- Last Release
- v0.28.0 (1mo ago)
- Open Issues
- 10
- Bus Factor
- 1
- Commits/Week
- 46.5
- Avg Issue Close
- 1.6 days
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