AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Stop AI scrapers from hammering your self-hosted blog (using porn)
Alright so if you run a self-hosted blog, you've probably noticed AI companies scraping it for training data. And not just a little (RIP to your server bill). There isn't much you can do about it without cloudflare. These companies ignore robots.txt, and you're competing with teams with more resources than you. It's you vs the MJs of programming, you're not going to win. But there is a solution. Now I'm not going to say it's a great solution...but a solution is a solution. If your website contains content that will trigger their scraper's safeguards, it will get dropped from their data…
fuzzycanary helps self-hosted blog owners protect their content from AI scraping by injecting hidden links into their website's HTML code. These invisible links trigger safety filters in scraper systems, causing them… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Browse AI▲548Train a robot to scrape any website in 2 mins with no-code
2021 · browse.ai · its alternatives →
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Hi! I'm Marcell, and I'm working on FetchFox (https://fetchfoxai.com). It's a Chrome extension that lets you use AI to scrape any website for any data. I'd love to get your feedback. Here's a quick demo showing how you can use it to scrape leads from an auto dealer directory. What's cool is that it scrapes non-uniform pages, which is quite hard to do with "traditional" scrapers: https://youtu.be/wPbyPSFsqzA A little background: I've written lots and lots of scrapers over the last 10+ years. They're fun to write when they work, but the internet has changed in ways…
2024 · fetchfoxai.com · its alternatives →
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Anakin▲148Every second thing I build needs to access the web, and I was frustrated with not finding something that just works all the time. With my team, we built this because I wanted to enable access to extremely difficult websites and apps for every AI agent. We have solved this cat-and-mouse problem with self-healing built in. It's one API to get data from hostile sites, and it can do easy sites too. You POST a URL and get back Markdown, JSON, HTML, a screenshot, or all of them. That same call handles anti-bot, proxy rotation, JS rendering, persistent authenticated sessions, and schema-based…
2021 · anakin.io · its alternatives →
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No AI crawl without compensation! ✊
2025 · cloudflare.com · its alternatives →
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Scraper AI▲190Automate website data extraction in a few clicks
2020 · scraper.ai · its alternatives →
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Yeah, there's AI, but I added it because I found it easier to find answers I'm looking for. For the data scientists, you can download the CSV and go crazy. Would love to know what discoveries or learnings can be found from it. To download the raw scraped data you need to become a paid member but you don't really need it unless you're wanting to finesse a table of data for a particular need. The cost is mostly just an incentive to help me pay the bills for running the website. The bunch of available CSV files contain large amounts of data which has everything from tags, genres, pricing,…
2025 · gginsights.io · its alternatives →
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Hey HN -- I'm a solo dev. Built this because I got tired of AI crawlers reading my HTML in plain text while robots.txt did nothing. The core trick: shuffle characters and words in your HTML using a seed, then use CSS (flexbox order, direction: rtl, unicode-bidi) to put them back visually. Browser renders perfectly. textContent returns garbage. On top of that: email/phone RTL obfuscation with decoy characters, AI honeypots that inject prompt instructions into LLM scrapers, clipboard interception, canvas-based image rendering (no img src in DOM), robots.txt blocking 30+ AI crawlers, and…
Mar 2026 · obscrd.dev · its alternatives →
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Browserfly▲203Hey Hackers! I've had this idea stuck in my head for a while: what if an AI could actually use my browser for me? I mean, not on some virtual machine in the cloud like ChatGPT agent, but right on my own browser. I finally decided to just build it and see what would happen. I wrote a quick MVP, and honestly, I didn't expect much. But then... it started doing things. On its own. It figured out how to use search engine to find what I needed, read a webpage to answer my questions, and even it can organize my chaotic mess of tabs into neat groups. It was a genuine "whoa" moment for me. That's…
2025 · browserfly.app · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built CountermarkAI, a lightweight anti-scraping & bot-detection tool for content creators and website owners. It’s designed to help protect your work from unauthorized scraping and AI training, that repurposed your work without permission. How It Works: Use Hashtag – Creators add a unique hashtag to their content as a declaration of ownership. Protect Website – For those running your own sites, simply add a small snippet to your . The protect.js script works asynchronously by sending metadata from every page load back to our servers, logging requests, and flagging known AI-training…
2025 · countermarkai.com · its alternatives →
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Scrappey.com▲80We handle all annoying scraping stuff for you
2023 · scrappey.com · its alternatives →
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Monitor webpages to track website & page changes. Get email alerts, push notifications and slack/discord alerts on changes. Start free monitoring today | Distill
2022 · scrapex.ai · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! Excited to share our MCP Server at Hyperbrowser - something we’ve been working on for a few days. We think it’s a pretty neat way to connect LLMs and IDEs like Cursor / Windsurf to the internet. Our MCP server exposes seven tools for data collection and browsing: 1. `scrape_webpage` - Extract formatted (markdown, screenshot etc) content from any webpage 2. `crawl_webpages` - Navigate through multiple linked pages and extract LLM-friendly formatted content 3. `extract_structured_data` - Convert messy HTML into structured JSON 4. `search_with_bing` - Query the web and get results…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Automate browser, Bypass Cloudflare, Captcha & JS Challenges
2025 · rapidapi.com · its alternatives →
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AI-driven Web Scraping for everyone, No Code needed
2024 · webtap.ai · its alternatives →
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Second article in a series. Interesting info regarding Cloudflare.
2024 · 8chananon.github.io · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! Excited to share a project we've been working on called Hyperbrowser. It’s a tool that makes scaling headless browsers ridiculously easy. It allows you to spin up hundreds of browser sessions in secure, isolated environments, with sub-second launch times. We automatically solve captchas, use residential proxies and manage concurrent sessions so that you can focus on your own business. The idea for Hyperbrowser came from our own struggles building AI apps and agents like sales tools, automations, and AI editors. Every project seemed to hit the same roadblock: interacting with the web.…
2024 · hyperbrowser.ai · its alternatives →
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Automate web scraping with AI—right from your Chrome browser
2025 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I’m Ishan, a 23-year-old, and this is my first time launching something here. I built a simple (free) tool that uses AI to roast websites. Just enter your URL, and it gives a fun, sometimes brutal, review. It’s mostly for laughs, but it also points out things you can improve on your website. I’d love for you to try it out and give me feedback!
2024 · thewebsiteroast.com · its alternatives →
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We've been trying to evaluate web scraping companies, but when you look at their benchmarks, you can't verify anything, and they mostly exist to prove the company is successful. They put somewhere between 98% and 100% because they pick their own urls, define success their own way, and don't publish the harness. We also saw companies like scrapfly astroturf websites like scrapeway and call them independent. So, we built an open source benchmark that we want to represent the frontier of web data. We're trying to look across all major anti-bot providers and industries, to build a comprehensive…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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InstawebAI▲13Hello HN! A few weeks ago I tried looking for a way to quickly create business sites without spending hours designing or using generic templates. AI seemed to be the answer. After trying multiple AI builders I couldn't find one that was easy to use and didn't use templates. I wanted something truly dynamic a tool that can create a website for anything fully AI driven design decisions based on my description. So I created one. A truly dynamic AI web builder.(Powered by GPT4 with styling done in tailwind css). Try it out here https://www.instawebai.com
2024 · instawebai.com · its alternatives →
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