Draco: A New Rust-Based Web Scraper Offers Faster and Lighter Alternative to Firecrawl
Draco, a new web scraping tool developed in Rust, is being introduced as a faster, cheaper, and lighter alternative to existing solutions like Firecrawl. Designed to run entirely on a user's machine, Draco provides a browserless JavaScript console and a built-in MCP, allowing users to scrape web pages and convert them into clean Markdown and metadata. The tool is optimized for speed, typically processing a standard HTML page in about 300 milliseconds without the need for a browser. Draco's capabilities include handling client-rendered SPAs and extracting structured data from JSON APIs. It also offers a daemon mode for persistent HTTP scraping and supports a variety of output formats, including JSON and Markdown. 
