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fastCRW: One Rust-Powered Web Data Engine for AI Agents

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One web-data engine beats stitching five tools together.
fastCRW is an open-source Rust web-data engine for builders who need to turn web pages into inputs for AI systems.
It helps you move web content into agent and data workflows by handling scraping, crawling, mapping, search, and extraction through one toolset.
Key features:
• Five web operations – scrape, crawl, map, search, and extract from the same engine
• Flexible outputs – return Markdown, HTML, links, screenshots, or schema-shaped JSON from a URL
• Bounded crawling – follow a site crawl and collect pages without treating the whole web as one job
• Local or managed deployment – run a local Rust binary or use the managed API, depending on your setup
• Agent-friendly access – use the CLI, Python SDK, Node.js SDK, or MCP server with supported AI coding tools
The engine and MCP server are open-source (AGPL-3.0).
🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/us/crw
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fastCRW: A Rust-Powered Web Data Engine for AI Agents

Building AI agents often requires collecting information from websites, extracting useful content, and passing it into an LLM workflow.

Instead of combining multiple web tools, fastCRW provides a unified engine for web data operations.

What is fastCRW?

fastCRW is an open-source Rust web scraping and search engine designed to turn URLs into clean Markdown or structured JSON for AI applications.

Key Features

1. Five web operations

  • Scrape – Convert a webpage into Markdown, HTML, links, screenshots, or structured JSON.

  • Crawl – Follow a bounded site crawl and collect pages.

  • Map – Discover URLs on a website.

  • Search – Search the web and optionally scrape selected results.

  • Extract – Produce structured fields from one or more URLs.

2. Flexible deployment

Run fastCRW locally using its Rust binary, self-host it as a server, or use the managed cloud API.

3. AI agent integrations

Use the CLI, Python SDK, Node.js SDK, or MCP server to connect web data with AI coding agents and other workflows.

4. Open-source licensing

The engine and MCP server are licensed under AGPL-3.0. The Python and TypeScript SDKs use MIT licensing.

Why it matters

Web scraping, crawling, and structured extraction are common building blocks for AI research assistants, RAG pipelines, and agentic systems.

A unified toolset can reduce integration work and make it easier to move web content into AI workflows.

🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/us/crw

Explore the project and verify its capabilities before using it in production.

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