fastcrw / crw
Fast, lightweight Firecrawl/Tavily alternative in Rust. Web scraper, crawler & search API with MCP server for AI agents. Drop-in Firecrawl-compatible API (/scrape, /crawl, /search). 2.3x faster than Tavily, 1.5x faster than Firecrawl in 1K-URL benchmarks. 6 MB RAM, single binary. Self-host or use managed cloud.
Why this job: says: scraper; topics: web-scraping, crawler, web-crawler
What it does
Runs local and free, no account needed. To use the Cloud, paste your key into the same command and it installs the binary, connects the key, and registers the MCP server with the AI coding tools you already have:
Get started
curl -fsSL https://fastcrw.com/install | sh - Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit yesterday
- Stars
- 1,240
- +20 this week
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- Share-alike, even hosted
- Downloads for
- 2 systems
- Mac, Linux
- Latest version
- v0.43.1
- Released yesterday
- Built with
- Rust
- 90% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 5
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 93% closed
- 5 still open
- Pull requests
- 490 merged
- 3 waiting
- Releases
- 98
- 30+ in the last year
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More: download files, languages, topics, project record and preview image
Download files, v0.43.1
- Mac6 files, 46 downloads
- Linux6 files, 50 downloads
Languages
- Rust 90%
- Python 6%
- Shell 2%
- TypeScript 1%
Topics
- ai
- ai-agents
- crawler
- data-extraction
- docker
- html-to-markdown
- llm
- markdown
- mcp
- rust
- self-hosted
- web-crawler
Project record
- JobAutomation and scraping
- StatusFeatured
- Commits1,277
- Forks96
- Watching4
- Stars in 28 days+112
- CreatedMar 2, 2026
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 10, 2026