Best free tools to turn websites into AI-ready data
Collect web pages as clean text for chatbots and research. Respect each site's terms.
- Turn any website into clean text for AI★ 198kstarsfirecrawl by firecrawl · Free alternative to Apify, Bright DataCrawl whole sites into MarkdownSome setupSelf-hosted appHealthy
- Turn websites into clean text for AI tools★ 86.9kstarscrawl4ai by unclecode · Free alternative to ApifyFast, free crawler for developersFor developersCode libraryHealthy
- Turn any web page into clean text for AI by adding one prefix★ 12.2kstarsreader by jina-ai · Free alternative to Firecrawl CloudAdd r.jina.ai/ before any linkNo codingWebsite▶ Try onlineHealthy
- Turn any website into a structured data feed★ 18.1kstarsmaxun by getmaxun · Free alternative to Browse AI, OctoparseNo-code scraping robotsSome setupSelf-hosted appHealthy
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