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Scraping & Browsing

Crawlers, headless browsers and page readers that let agents use the web.

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Firecrawl

Turns websites into clean markdown or structured data, with crawl, scrape and map endpoints.

Free tierAPI key

Browserbase

Managed headless browsers in the cloud for agents, with session recording and stealth features.

Free tierAPI key

Playwright

Open-source browser automation library for Chromium, Firefox and WebKit in several languages.

FreeNo auth

Puppeteer

Node library that drives Chrome or Firefox through DevTools protocols for scraping and testing.

FreeNo auth

Jina Reader

Prefix a URL and get an LLM-friendly text version of the page back; a keyless tier exists with rate limits.

Free tierNo auth

Apify

Platform with thousands of ready-made scrapers called Actors, plus infrastructure to run your own.

Free tierAPI key

Crawl4AI

Open-source crawler that outputs markdown tuned for LLM pipelines, runnable locally or in Docker.

FreeNo auth

ScrapingBee

Scraping API that handles proxies, headless rendering and blocks behind a single request.

PaidAPI key

Bright Data

Large proxy network with web unlocker, scraper APIs and datasets for data collection at scale.

PaidAPI key

Cloudflare Browser Rendering

Run headless Chrome from a Worker or REST API to screenshot, scrape or automate pages.

Free tierAPI key

Browser Use

Open-source library that lets an LLM control a real browser, with an optional hosted cloud.

Free tierAPI key

Stagehand

Browser automation SDK that mixes plain-language actions with code, built on Playwright.

Free tierAPI key

Scrapy

Mature Python framework for writing fast, scalable crawlers and extracting structured data.

FreeNo auth

Common Crawl

Free, open repository of petabytes of web crawl data, useful for research and training datasets.

FreeNo auth