Web search & page-text APIs

Free alternatives to Firecrawl

Find a free app for the parts of Firecrawl you actually use.

Compare the free allowance and limitations on each app’s page. These are workflow alternatives, rather than identical copies.

Free options

Search the web and read page text from an agent using Treg’s direct TinyFish tools.

Direct TinyFish search & fetch: $0 · Treg account required · other routes may cost

Find web pages and extract their readable text and links for research or agent workflows.

Free search: 30/min, 500/hour · fetch: 150 URLs/min, 1,000/day · API key required

Crawl linked web pages and export selected text fields as structured records using JavaScript.

Free Apache-2.0 library · no vendor request quota · your Node.js machine or server

Follow website links and export selected page fields as structured datasets with Python spiders.

Free BSD-3-Clause software · no vendor request quota · your Python machine or server

Convert accessible web page content into Markdown for research, retrieval or agent context.

Free local library · own Python compute · hosted cloud and optional model APIs are separate

Extract the main text and metadata from HTML articles and save clean content for research.

Free Apache-2.0 library · no vendor extraction quota · own Python compute

Turn a public page URL into readable text and links for research or agent context.

Public Reader API: 20 requests/min without a key · higher tiers have separate limits