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Open-source alternatives to Apify

Three hand-approved projects in our catalog replace Apify. All three are data engineering software. Firecrawl has the most GitHub stars (197.1K). Tick what matters to you and the list re-sorts so the closest fits come first.

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The alternatives

Pick what matters below. For now the three alternatives are in order of GitHub stars.

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Firecrawl

Data engineering

Turn websites into clean Markdown and data for your AI apps.

  • Scrape any URL to Markdown, HTML or schema-based JSON with one API call.
  • Crawl a site with path filters and depth limits, or map every URL on it.
  • Self-host with Docker Compose and call it from SDKs, the CLI or an MCP server.
Does not meet: Permissive licenceMeets: Open-source licenceDoes not meet: Released ≤ 90 daysDoes not meet: Gaining starsMeets: Written in TypeScriptDoes not meet: In a stack
197.1K starsAGPL-3.0TypeScriptLatest release Jun 2026Website ↗Full profile →

Scrapling

Data engineering

Scrape websites from your terminal or let AI agents do it through MCP.

  • Save any page as Markdown, text or HTML from the terminal without writing code.
  • Let Claude, Cursor and other agents browse and extract data through its MCP server.
  • Grow into Python spiders with sessions, proxy rotation, pause and resume, and exports.
Meets: Permissive licenceMeets: Open-source licenceMeets: Released ≤ 90 daysDoes not meet: Gaining starsMeets: Written in PythonDoes not meet: In a stack
90.5K starsBSD-3-ClausePythonLatest release 13 days agoWebsite ↗Full profile →

Crawl4AI

Data engineering

Turn any website into clean Markdown or JSON for AI and data pipelines.

  • Convert pages into clean Markdown with headings, tables, code and cited links kept.
  • Extract structured JSON with CSS or XPath schemas, or with an LLM of your choice.
  • Run your own server with a REST API, MCP, a monitoring dashboard and a playground.
Meets: Permissive licenceMeets: Open-source licenceMeets: Released ≤ 90 daysDoes not meet: Gaining starsMeets: Written in PythonMeets: In a stack
86.6K starsApache-2.0PythonLatest release 17 days agoWebsite ↗Full profile →

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