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AI · March 18, 2016

Crawly

Never write another web scraper

Crawly launched on March 18, 2016 with 606 votes, #10 of 4,409 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

In plain words

Crawly is a web scraping tool that automatically extracts structured data from entire websites without requiring manual code. It uses AI-powered spiders to crawl pages and convert website content into usable data formats. The platform targets developers and businesses that need to gather information from websites at scale, eliminating the need to write custom scraping scripts for each project.

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From the sources

Turn websites into data in seconds. Crawly spiders and extracts complete structured data from an entire website.

Turn websites into data in seconds. Crawly spiders and extracts complete structured data from an entirefrom crawly.diffbot.com

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