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firecrawlvsTRAWL

Two self-hosted Web Scraping projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

firecrawlTRAWL
Score91/10056/100
Rank in category#1 of 16 in Web Scraping#11 of 16 in Web Scraping
GitHub stars196 2741 079
Stars, last 30 days+12 381—
Stable releases, 12 months910
Latest releaseapps/go-sdk/v1.15.0 · 8 Sept 2026v1.9.3 · 24 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

firecrawl scores 91/100 against 56/100 for TRAWL, so it is the safer default.

TRAWL ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 9 for firecrawl.

If you want the quickest setup, TRAWL is easier to run; firecrawl needs more configuration.

firecrawl is growing faster right now (+12 381 stars in 30 days).

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