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24 alternatives to WebSemaphore

Business continuity for APIs at cloud scale

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. WebSemaphore launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Hosted Continuous integration for Web Applications.

    2014 · semaphoreapp.com · its alternatives →

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    Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs via capturing traffic - alufers/mitmproxy2swagger

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, This is Jan, founder of Apify, a web scraping and automation platform. Drawing on our team's years of experience, today we're launching Crawlee [1], the web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js that's designed for the fastest development and maximum reliability in production. For details, see the short video [2] or read the announcement blog post [3]. Main features: - Supports headless browsers with Playwright or Puppeteer - Supports raw HTTP crawling with Cheerio or JSDOM - Automated parallelization and scaling of crawlers for best performance - Avoids blocking using…

    2022 · crawlee.dev · its alternatives →

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    The biggest marketplace of readymade no code web scrapers

    2021 · webautomation.io · its alternatives →

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    Swell▲109

    Streaming API Development Tool

    2018 · getswell.io · its alternatives →

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    Distributed WASM runtime. Workloads place themselves over a zero-trust mesh. One static binary. - Sambigeara/pollen

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Fastest CI/CD platform for world’s best engineering teams

    2018 · semaphore.io · its alternatives →

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    Easy Parallel CI for Big Web Apps

    2017 · semaphore.io · its alternatives →

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    Real-time monitoring and alerts for Slack administrators

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Kinase▲159

    A framework for building web scrapers for Chrome

    2017 · b12.io · its alternatives →

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    A decentralized search engine for IPFS and Filecoin

    2021 · dweb-search.on.fleek.co · its alternatives →

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    World's most intelligent web app & API security scan tool

    2024 · zerothreat.ai · its alternatives →

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    The open source CI/CD platform

    2025 · semaphore.io · its alternatives →

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    IPFS▲84

    Peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol for Blockchain powered web

    2015 · about.ipfs.io · its alternatives →

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    Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js to build reliable crawlers. In JavaScript and TypeScript. Extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG, or GPTs. Download HTML, PDF, JPG, PNG, and other files from websites. Works with Puppeteer, Playwright, Cheerio, JSDOM, and raw HTTP. Both headf

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    KORE.io▲88

    A fast SPDY capable web server for web development in C

    2015 · kore.io · its alternatives →

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    A Cloud monad based on transient for the creation of Web and reactive distributed applications that are fully composable, where Web browsers are first class nodes in the cloud - GitHub - transient-haskell/transient-universe: A Cloud monad based on transient for the creation of Web and reactive distr

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    SERPHouse – The most reliable and blazing-fast SERP API.

    May 2026 · serphouse.com · its alternatives →

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    Cloud-Scale Monitoring for Microservices

    2016 · dataloop.io · its alternatives →

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    Swell▲20

    Streaming API Development Tool + GraphQL

    2019 · getswell.io · its alternatives →

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    A simple, distributed, zero-configuration WireGuard mesh solution - webmeshproj/webmesh

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

  24. 24IV

    Hello HN, for the past couple of months I've been working on Routify and wanted to share the progress made so far and hopefully get your opinion/feedback on it. Routify is a global serverless API gateway which handles routing, authentication, rate limiting, load balancing, monitoring, transformation etc (with more coming soon). Routify makes it easier to manage and secure public APIs. It's distributed across many regions globally and acts as a proxy between your clients and your services. You can configure it through the interface in a matter of minutes (no code required). There are…

    2024 · routify.to · its alternatives →

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