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Fast, lightweight Firecrawl alternative in Rust. Web scraper, crawler & search API with MCP server for AI agents. Drop-in Firecrawl-compatible API (/v1/scrape, /v1/crawl, /v1/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.

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@fast_crw · x.com

6/7 2. A scouted verdict on whether self-hosted scraping beats ad-hoc manual lookups. Useful because agent research is only as trustworthy as the freshness and provenance of what it actually reads.

@harleyfoote_ · x.com

Your worst-case scraping bill is $0. The exact same engine is AGPL-3.0 — self-host it unlimited, no license fee, forever. No incumbent can offer that floor. #OpenSource #SelfHosted #WebScraping…

@fast_crw · x.com

85ms cold start. One ~6MB Rust binary — no Chromium boot, no JVM warmup, no 5-service Compose file. It's running before a headless browser finishes launching. #RustLang #WebScraping #SelfHosted…

@fast_crw · x.com

Download the binary, run one curl, get clean markdown — no API key, no signup, ~142ms. The free local mode is the whole engine. #WebScraping #RustLang #DevTools #OpenSource

@fast_crw · x.com

fastCRW just crossed 100 ⭐ on GitHub 📷 Open-source lightest, fastest, Rust engine for web scrape, crawl, search & map. Thank you to everyone who starred it — we're just getting started. #opensource…

@fast_crw · x.com

Firecrawl users forked it because the anti-bot engine stays closed-source — self-host degrades over time. fastCRW self-host is the full engine, full parity, AGPL-3.0. No coercion. #opensource…

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