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Show HN: Draco – A single-binary, self-hostable Firecrawl alternative in Rust

Scraping modern websites has become a massive headache. You basically have two choices: pay for an expensive API like Firecrawl/Browserbase, or run a fleet of headless Chrome instances that eat 1GB of RAM per page and still get blocked by Cloudflare. I b...

Source: Hacker News Newest · github.com Published 2026-08-02T20:48:45+00:00 Detected 2026-08-02T21:23:34+00:00
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Scraping modern websites has become a massive headache. You basically have two choices: pay for an expensive API like Firecrawl/Browserbase, or run a fleet of headless Chrome instances that eat 1GB of RAM per page and still get blocked by Cloudflare. I b...

Scraping modern websites has become a massive headache. You basically have two choices: pay for an expensive API like Firecrawl/Browserbase, or run a fleet of headless Chrome instances that eat 1GB of RAM per page and still get blocked by Cloudflare. I built Draco to fix this. It’s a fast, single-binary web...

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