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

# firecrawl vs markdown-crawler

Neutral, constraint-first comparison with live GitHub stats.

| | [firecrawl](/tools/firecrawl-firecrawl.md) | [markdown-crawler](/tools/paulpierre-markdown-crawler.md) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 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 | 147,199 | 456 |
| Forks | 8,453 | 54 |
| Open issues | 388 | 5 |
| Language | TypeScript | Python |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Categories | AI Agents, Data & Retrieval | Data & Retrieval, Developer Tools |

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**Machine-readable endpoints**

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

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