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AI · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to AnyCrawler

Crawl, search, and screenshot the web for AI

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.

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    While building mendable - we found that feeding LLMs well-structured markdown improved accuracy. We also found it surprisingly hard. We found some great tools online, but none reliably handled the entire process. We wanted an API that took a URL, crawled the pages in the URL, and gave us an easy-to-use, up-to-date markdown we could feed into our index. So, we released an open-source repo and an API that crawls and turns entire websites into a markdown with just a few lines of code The API handles: - Crawling without consistent sitemaps - Infra to handle running many crawling jobs - Proxying,…

    Dec 2025 · firecrawl.dev · its alternatives →

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    Our most accurate Search API for AI agents.

    Jul 2026 · docs.firecrawl.dev · its alternatives →

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    AnySearch▲613

    Real-time structured search trusted by agents and developers

    Jul 2026 · anysearch.com · its alternatives →

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    The site hit #1 on HN about a year ago. Got enough traffic that I turned it into a proper API. What's there: - REST API — 35k products, manually filterable by category, free key, 60 req/min - CLI — npx anycrap random -c food - faker.js plugin — bundled, no API call, works offline - HuggingFace dataset — full 35k rows for ML/training https://anycrap.shop/developers

    2025 · anycrap.shop · its alternatives →

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    AnyPicker▲496

    Scrape web data without any code, just click what you see.

    2019 · app.anypicker.com · its alternatives →

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    FIRE-1▲173

    A new leap in web scraping

    2025 · docs.firecrawl.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! We built Notte, a browser infrastructure and agents platform. Many of our users automate UI workflows or extract data from sites that don’t have APIs. In practice, we noticed that once an agent understands how a site works, parts of the task can often run without a browser by interacting with the same network requests the site uses. So we built Anything API: describe a browser task, and our agent explores the site, builds a function, tests it against your description, and deploys a callable REST endpoint. No infra to manage. How the build works: - Describe the task (best results come…

    Mar 2026 · anything.notte.cc · its alternatives →

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    The first LLM for document parsing with accuracy and speed

    2024 · cambioml.com · its alternatives →

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    AnyParser▲271

    Accurate, private and configurable document retrieval LLM

    2024 · cambioml.com · its alternatives →

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    Firecrawl skills are an easy way for AI agents such as Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenCode to use Firecrawl through the CLI.

    Mar 2026 · docs.firecrawl.dev · its alternatives →

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    SCRAPR▲260

    The data layer for the agentic web

    Mar 2026 · scraprbeta.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Crawly▲606

    Never write another web scraper

    2016 · crawly.diffbot.com · its alternatives →

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    Build and enrich B2B lists by chatting to your agent

    Aug 2026 · anysite.io · its alternatives →

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    Automate website data extraction in a few clicks

    2020 · scraper.ai · its alternatives →

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    Browse AI▲548

    Train a robot to scrape any website in 2 mins with no-code

    2021 · browse.ai · its alternatives →

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    Browse anything (AI browser agent)free tier, from $9.99/mo▲126

    Browse Anything is now live in Public Beta! After several months of private beta testing, over 100 users and hundreds of real-world tasks performed, I’m incredibly excited to officially launch the public beta of Browse Anything! What is it? Browse Anything is an AI agent (computer use agent) that can browse the web, automate tasks, extract data, generate reports, and much more, all from a simple prompt. Think of it as your personal web assistant, powered by AI. It can: Navigate websites autonomously Scrape and structure data Generate CSV or PDF files Update Google Sheets or Notion Keep a…

    2025 · browseanything.io · its alternatives →

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    Anycrawl is a high-performance alternative to Firecrawl

    2025 · anycrawl.dev · its alternatives →

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    Crawlee▲229

    Build reliable web scrapers and robots, fast!

    2022 · crawlee.dev · its alternatives →

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    Local AI powered red teamer on a phone. Contribute to garagehq/nightcrawler development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Scrape websites with AI using no-code

    2023 · webscrapeai.com · its alternatives →

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    Agenty▲263

    Point and click screen scraping tool using CSS selectors

    2016 · agenty.com · its alternatives →

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    Search + scrape live web results for AI agents

    Apr 2026 · fastcrw.com · its alternatives →

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    An index for agents pushing the frontier of AI/ML research

    Jun 2026 · docs.firecrawl.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, we're Lennert and Rauf. We’re building Airweave (https://github.com/airweave-ai/airweave), an open-source tool that lets agents search and retrieve data from any app or database. Here’s a general intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFI-7SYGQ48, and here’s a longer one that shows more real-world use cases, examples of how Airweave is used by Cursor (0:33) and Claude desktop (2:04), etc.: https://youtu.be/p2dl-39HwQo A couple of months ago we were building agents that interacted with different apps and were frustrated when they…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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