Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Equip Your Agents with Powerful Web Scraping Tools
Hi HN, I want to share a suite of APIs designed to make web scraping and content transformation seamless. These tools empower your agents to handle diverse scraping and formatting tasks: 1. Markdownify API Endpoint Transforms web pages into clean, well-structured markdown. Ideal for content migration, documentation, or converting HTML to markdown for any use case. 2. Local Scraper API Extract structured data directly from HTML content. Instead of providing a URL, send the HTML and your extraction prompt to get meaningful, structured results. 3. SmartScraper API Define your desired output…
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. Equip Your Agents with Powerful Web Scraping Tools launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Simple Scraper▲556Turn any website into an API in just a few seconds.
2019 · simplescraper.io · its alternatives →
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My partner usually writes substack posts which I then mirror to our website’s blog section. To automate this, I made a simple tool to scrape the post and clean it so that I can drop it to our blog easily. This might be useful to others as well. Oh and ofcourse you can instruct GPT to make any final edits :D
2024 · markdowndown.vercel.app · 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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Context.dev▲814Hello, My name is Yahia, I've been working on scraping products for a long time and maintain a couple of free sites in my spare time (E.g. knifegeek.io) What prompted this is i've rebuilt scraping infra at every company I've started and finally just made it a product. Pass a URL, get clean markdown, html, images, sitemap or pass a domain, get logos, colors, socials, industry data. Goal is to offer a better service than VC funded competitors at a fraction of the cost. Stealth is included and automatic at no additional cost (normally an upcharge by alternatives). Would love your honest thoughts.
Jul 2026 · context.dev · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I originally built “html-to-markdown” back in 2018 (while still in high school) to handle complex HTML conversions where other libraries struggled. Now, I’ve released v2 — a complete rewrite designed to handle even more edge cases. It supports entire websites with a high accuracy. Example use: I’ve used it in my RSS reader to strip HTML down to clean Markdown, similar to the "Reader Mode" in your Browser. It can be used as a Golang package or as an CLI. Give it a try & tell me what edge cases you encounter!
2024 · github.com · 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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Web Scraper API▲287Scrape the web at scale without getting blocked
2021 · datashake.com · its alternatives →
- 8Copy as Markdown▲302
Convert text to markdown for LLMs like ChatGPT
2025 · copyasmarkdown.com · its alternatives →
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Markdown conversion tool for the AI era.
2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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📝 create a webpage with just markdown. Contribute to oscarmorrison/md-page development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · 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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Web Scraper API▲142Scrape the web at scale without getting blocked
2023 · datashake.com · its alternatives →
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Build an API on top of any existing website or find an API for a site that you need
2017 · wrapapi.com · its alternatives →
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Turn any webpage into structured data using LLMs. Contribute to mishushakov/llm-scraper development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Scrape, Screenshot, and extract LLM-ready data
Jan 2026 · geekflare.com · its alternatives →
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DOM to Semantic-Markdown for use with LLMs. Contribute to romansky/dom-to-semantic-markdown development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Extract clean Markdown, HTML, or plain text from content-heavy websites.
2022 · content-parser.com · its alternatives →
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From webpage to Markdown.
Jun 2026 · markdownify-monorepo.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Scrapeless▲168Effortless web scraping toolkit for businesses & developers
2025 · scrapeless.com · its alternatives →
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Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →