Research & web data

Tools that let AI browse websites, crawl and scrape pages, convert documents to clean text, and write researched reports with sources. For anyone who needs an AI to gather and summarise information from the web or from files.

• AI web research reports with sources3 toolsbrowser-use 62
• Scrape websites into clean data for AI2 toolsfirecrawl 78
• Convert documents to Markdown for LLMs4 toolsfirecrawl 78
• Competitor and web monitoring with AI3 toolsfirecrawl 78
• Write cited, long-form articles with AI2 toolsgpt-researcher 31

• FirecrawlFits if you want the highest overall score (score 78, #1 of 52 overall)
• FirecrawlFits if active maintenance matters most (last push 2 Nov 2026, maintenance 80)
• FirecrawlFits if you want the most widely adopted option (197,743 stars, 10,448 forks)
• FirecrawlFits if you want the most thorough README docs (docs score 69, 24,988-character README)

• No issues foundFirecrawlNo issues found in this week’s scan
• CautionBrowser UseSkill/agent file instructs piping a remote script into a shell: skills/cloud/references/quickstart.md
• No dependencies scannedMarkItDownCode checks clean, no lockfile to check
• CautionCrawl4AI29 critical-severity known vulnerabilities in runtime dependencies (OSV)
• CautionGPT Researcher8 critical-severity known vulnerabilities in runtime dependencies (OSV)
• CautionSTORM9 critical-severity known vulnerabilities in runtime dependencies (OSV)

• License to check before commercial use: Firecrawl (AGPL-3.0).