Open Source Alternatives to Apify

Browser Use

MIT

Python library that lets AI agents browse the web by giving them real browser control, DOM access, and the ability to interact with any website.

Crawl4AI

Apache-2.0

Open-source web crawler and scraper that produces clean, structured output optimized for LLMs, RAG pipelines, and AI agents. Supports async crawling, CSS/XPath/LLM extraction, and stealth browser control.

Firecrawl

AGPL-3.0

API for AI agents to search, scrape, crawl, and interact with the live web, returning clean Markdown, structured JSON, or screenshots from any page.