Draco - Self-hostable Firecrawl alternative in Rust
Show HN: Draco – A single-binary, self-hostable Firecrawl alternative in Rust
Draco is a fast, stealth, native-Rust web scraper that converts URLs into clean Markdown and metadata using a browser-faithful TLS/JA4 fingerprint, avoiding headless browsers and Node dependencies. It handles client-rendered SPAs via an in-process V8 isolate for render-then-Markdown or JSON API extraction, and offers a Firecrawl-compatible daemon mode with REST endpoints for scraping, mapping, crawling, and searching. Install via a single binary or build from source; ideal for developers needing lightweight, self-hosted web scraping.
A fast, stealth, native-Rust web scraper — a lighter alternative to Firecrawl / Browserbase. Point it at a URL and get clean Markdown + metadata back, using a browser-faithful TLS/JA4 fingerprint to reach pages that block ordinary clients.
- cognitiveinline
Quite useful. Currently we do overpay for the services.
- esseph
Because we... Need more webpage scraping?
It seems the scraping itself is much of the current internet traffic problem.
- Onavo
It being vibe coded aside, does it support screenshots? I noticed the daemon mode has a lot of weird limitations too like not being able to return html.