---
title: "trafilatura vs firecrawl"
type: "comparison"
canonical_url: "https://www.graphcanon.com/compare/adbar-trafilatura-vs-firecrawl-firecrawl"
tools: ["adbar-trafilatura", "firecrawl-firecrawl"]
---

# trafilatura vs firecrawl

Neutral, constraint-first comparison with live GitHub stats.

| | [trafilatura](/tools/adbar-trafilatura.md) | [firecrawl](/tools/firecrawl-firecrawl.md) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tagline | Python & Command-line tool to gather web text and metadata | API for searching, scraping, and interacting with the web at scale |
| Stars | 6,248 | 147,199 |
| Forks | 393 | 8,453 |
| Open issues | 74 | 388 |
| Language | Python | TypeScript |
| License | Apache-2.0 | AGPL-3.0 |
| Categories | Developer Tools | AI Agents, Data & Retrieval |

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**Machine-readable endpoints**

- JSON: [`/api/graphcanon/graph?tool=adbar-trafilatura`](/api/graphcanon/graph?tool=adbar-trafilatura)
- LLM index: [/llms.txt](/llms.txt)
- Full corpus: [/llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt)

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