Draco: A Rust-Based, Self-Hostable Firecrawl Alternative Bypassing Cloudflare
ccheshirecat · hn · 2026-08-03
Draco is an open-source, self-hostable web scraper written in Rust, designed as a fast alternative to expensive hosted APIs like Firecrawl.
- Tiered Escalation Engine:
- Tier 1: Uses a custom TLS/JA4 fingerprint to mimic real browsers, bypassing anti-bot walls with only 20MB of RAM.
- Tier 2: Boots an in-process V8 engine to intercept hidden JSON APIs for SPA pages.
- Tier 3: Falls back to driving a real browser when hitting absolute walls.
- AI Workflow Integration: Natively exposes an MCP Server for direct integration with AI agents like Claude Desktop. It also features a Firecrawl-compatible REST API and built-in multi-engine web search.
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