Fastcrawl
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Fastcrawl turns any URL into clean, LLM-ready markdown, JavaScript rendered. REST and MCP, one API key. Flat pricing: one credit per format — markdown + html + links + json costs the same as markdown alone. Cached repeats are free. Free tier: 1,500 credits a month, no card. Go: $5/month for 5,000. Measured, not claimed: HTTP pages return in ~325ms at the median, browser renders in ~6s.
PH · launched Sep 26, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 1 view
Niche: web scraping tools and apis · 172 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▲ +9% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Data infrastructure
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- API
- Artificial Intelligence
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Could you build this?
Partial Creating a web wrapper that returns markdown is simple, but building a production crawler capable of running headless browsers at scale, bypassing anti-bot shields, and extracting clean markdown requires heavy scraping infrastructure.
What it would actually take: A competitive crawling service requires distributed headless browser clusters (Playwright/Puppeteer on Kubernetes) orchestrated with proxy rotation networks and anti-bot bypass solutions (handling Cloudflare, Datadome, CAPTCHAs). The extraction pipeline requires robust HTML-to-markdown parsing (Readability/Turndown) and an efficient caching and queue architecture (Redis/BullMQ) capable of processing millions of requests concurrently.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 200 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #169 of 201 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 253 days after the earliest competitor.
- SML URL to Markdown API · ph · 2026-10-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- switch402 · ph · 2026-11-04 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- ClickScrape · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- AgentSearch · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- domscout · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Crawio · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Donely · ph · 2026-03-16 · 219 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- SerpScraper.dev · ph · 2026-09-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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