Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Crul – Query Any Webpage or API
Hi HN, we’re Carl and Nic, the creators of crul (https://www.crul.com), and we’ve been hard at work for the last year and a half building our dream of turning the web into a dataset. In a nutshell crul is a tool for querying and building web and api data feeds from anywhere to anywhere. With crul you can crawl and transform web pages into csv tables, explore and dynamically query APIs, filter and organize data, and push data sets to third party data lakes and analytics tools. Here’s a demo video, we’ve been told Nic sounds like John Mayer (lol)…
Crul is a tool for extracting and transforming data from websites and APIs into usable datasets. Users can crawl web pages into CSV tables, query APIs dynamically, filter and organize data, and export results to data… 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. Crul – Query Any Webpage or API launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Webhound▲368An AI agent that builds datasets from the web
Jul 2026 · webhound.ai · its alternatives →
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Turn any website into an API (for those who miss Kimono)free tier, from $19/mo▲332Web scraping made simple — extract data with our free Chrome extension and powerful cloud platform. Turn websites into structured data at scale, via dashboard or API.
2019 · simplescraper.io · its alternatives →
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I built this tool because I wanted a way to just take a bunch of URLs or domains, and query their content in RAG applications. It takes away the pain of crawling, extracting content, chunking, vectorizing, and updating periodically. I'm curious to see if it can be useful to others. I meant to launch this six months ago but life got in the way...
2024 · embedding.io · its alternatives →
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Anything API▲656Hey 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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/agent by Firecrawl ▲569While 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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DataSquirrel.ai▲268Fastest way: csv/xls to dashboard report, no ChatGPT upload
2023 · datasquirrel.ai · its alternatives →
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Ditch your scraper. Make one API call with any tool.
Jun 2026 · tabstack.ai · its alternatives →
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TABLUM.IO▲159Turn CSV, XML & JSON into a live analysis-ready SQL database
2023 · tablum.io · 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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Web scraping is just became easy. Extract any website content and turn it into datasets. No programming skills required.
2016 · diggernaut.com · its alternatives →
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Vectorly▲92Get web data behind clicks, searches, user interactions
Dec 2025 · inkbox.ai · its alternatives →
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Crawlify▲165AI powered data extraction APIs. Hassle-free data retrieval.
2020 · crawlify.io · its alternatives →
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Data tools to help you make better product decisions
2016 · datastash.co · its alternatives →
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