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WaterCrawl

Capability: WaterCrawl

Use it when

  • self-host asynchronous website crawling with a queue and API
  • crawl many pages into LLM-ready content with job state

What it solves

Not the fit when

  • bot-detection-challenge guaranteed

Install

git clone https://github.com/watercrawl/WaterCrawl && cd WaterCrawl && docker compose up -d

Invoke

Create a crawl request through the API or UI, poll the job, and consume the returned page records as Markdown or structured data.

Alternatives

crawl4ai, firecrawl