Comparison
firecrawl vs markdown-crawler
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| firecrawl | markdown-crawler | |
|---|---|---|
| Tagline | API for searching, scraping, and interacting with the web at scale | A multithreaded web crawler that recursively crawls a website and creates markdown files for each page. |
| Stars | 147k | 456 |
| Forks | 8.5k | 54 |
| Open issues | 388 | 5 |
| Language | TypeScript | Python |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Last pushed | Jul 7, 2026 | Jun 26, 2026 |
| Categories | AI Agents, Data & Retrieval | Data & Retrieval, Developer Tools |
Choose firecrawl if…
- More widely adopted - 147k stars vs 456.
- More recently updated (last pushed Jul 7, 2026).
- Also covers AI Agents.