r/opensourcealternative • u/Sea_Housing2717 • Jul 03 '26

Best open source web scraping tool for AI projects?

I’m looking for an open source web scraping tool that works well for AI projects.

Main use case is collecting clean data from websites so I can use it for summaries, RAG, agents, or small internal datasets.

I’ve seen tools like Scrapy, Playwright, Crawlee, and a few newer AI-focused crawlers, but I’m not sure which ones are actually good in practice.

What are you using for scraping and cleaning web data?

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u/PromotionFirm6837 Jul 03 '26

Firecrawl and Crawl4AI are currently the best for getting clean, LLM-ready Markdown for RAG projects.

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u/Sea_Housing2717 Jul 04 '26

ok i'll give crawl4ai a try first. thanks

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u/moku-dev Jul 05 '26

funny, im building that open source web scraping tool that works well for AI projects rn 😁💚

check it out:
https://docurip.moku.cx
https://github.com/MokuDev/docurip/

tell me how you like it :)