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CATEGORY 10 · 7 TOOLS

Data & scraping

Pull information from the web into spreadsheets, CRMs and AI workflows.

ESSENTIAL IN DATA & SCRAPING

  1. Firecrawl

    Web search, scrape, crawl and interact API that turns the web into clean context for AI agents.

    FREE TIER

All 7 Data & scraping tools

  1. Firecrawl

    Web search, scrape, crawl and interact API that turns the web into clean context for AI agents.

    EssentialFree tier

  2. Context.dev

    Web data API for AI agents and apps (formerly Brand.dev, YC S26).

    Worth a lookFree tier

  3. Crawl4AI

    Free, open-source (Apache-2.0) web crawler and scraper that turns any website into clean, LLM-ready Markdown or structured JSON for AI agents.

    Worth a lookFree tier

  4. Exa

    AI search engine and API for agents: web search, deep research, people/company search and Websets.

    Worth a lookFree tier

  5. Ploid

    People-data and enrichment platform (YC F26, San Francisco) that claims an index of 2B+ people built from public web, social and professional sources…

    Worth a lookFree trial

  6. TinyFish

    Live web access for AI agents through one API (search, fetch, browser, agent).

    Worth a lookFree tier

  7. Dreambase

    The data factory for your agents: dashboards, datasets and metrics delivered to agents over one MCP.

    NicheFree tier