crw — security grade SAFE, quality 67/100

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 67/100

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About crw

fastCRW Self-hosted, Rust-native web crawler &amp; scraper for AI agents The open-source alternative to Firecrawl. One static binary, 50 MB RAM idle, Firecrawl-compatible REST API on both and (scrape, crawl, map, search, extract, plus v2 batch & parse) — a drop-in for the official Firecrawl SDKs — plus first-class MCP. Self-host free under AGPL-3.0, or hit our managed API at . Reproducible 63.74% truth-recall on the public 1,000-URL dataset (, 2026-05-08) — see fastcrw.com/benchmarks. Built in Rust because every millisecond of agent latency compounds. <p a

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Quick Facts

Stars976
Forks74
LanguageRust
CategoryMCP Server
LicenseAGPL-3.0
Quality Score66.9696684515314/100
Open Issues2
Last Updated2026-09-12
Created2026-03-02
Platformsbrowser, docker, mcp, rust
Est. Tokens~27k

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is crw?

crw is Fast, lightweight Firecrawl/Tavily alternative in Rust. Web scraper, crawler & search API with MCP server for AI agents. Drop-in Firecrawl-compatible API (/scrape, /crawl, /search). 2.3x faster than T. It is categorized as a MCP Server with 976 GitHub stars.

What programming language is crw written in?

crw is primarily written in Rust. It covers topics such as ai, ai-agents, crawler.

How do I install or use crw?

You can find installation instructions and usage details in the crw GitHub repository at github.com/us/crw. The project has 976 stars and 74 forks, indicating an active community.

What license does crw use?

crw is released under the AGPL-3.0 license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.

What are the best alternatives to crw?

The top alternatives to crw on Agent Skills Hub include webclaw, pullmd, brightdata-mcp. Each offers a different approach to the same problem space — compare them side-by-side by stars, quality score, and community activity.

How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.

The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.

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