fastCRW is a search + scrape API for AI agents. It lets you search the web, scrape pages, crawl sites, map URLs, and return clean markdown, JSON, links, and metadata in one workflow. It’s open source, Firecrawl-compatible, benchmarked 2.3x faster than Tavily for search and 2.2x faster than Firecrawl for scraping, and runs as a lightweight single binary with 500 free credits to start.
What's great
it is super easy to setup and Super easy to deploy and super low Ram usage on server
What needs improvement
Documentation needs to be Improved its little hard to find configuirations with explanations or at least some videos would be great
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Firecrawlit is super easy to setup and Super easy to deploy and super low Ram usage on server
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Thanks for taking the time to write this up, Rana, really appreciate it. Glad the low-RAM, single-binary deploy is landing for you; running fastCRW as one small binary instead of a multi-service stack is the thing we obsess over, so it's great to hear it holds up on a real server.
You're right about the docs, though, that's our weakest spot today. "Find the config you need with an actual explanation" is exactly the gap. We're reworking the docs around it: a clearer config reference with an example per option, plus short setup videos. Everything ships to docs.fastcrw.com as we go. If you've got a sec, what were you trying to configure when it got fiddly? I'll prioritize fixing that page first.
Thanks again for giving fastCRW a proper run, honest feedback like this is what makes an open-source, Firecrawl-compatible tool actually better. 🙏