Observed arrival · 2026-10-12
crawl.cheap: a Firecrawl-compatible web-data engine
The site presents a Cloudflare-powered API for scraping, crawling, mapping, searching, and extracting web data, with a Firecrawl v2-compatible interface.
○Open
⊠Login
$Paid
†Ads
✦Pretty
●Pro
◎Niche
◉Human
⚑Risk
ƒJS
- For
- Developers replacing or testing a Firecrawl-compatible web-data API
- Worth noticing
- The page reports testing the official JavaScript SDK on 8/8 checks and the Python SDK on 4/4 against production.
Field notes
The homepage lays out a migration path with request examples for the official JavaScript and Python SDKs, plus raw REST calls; it says users need a separate crawl.cheap key. Its described fetch planner tries static HTTP extraction first, escalating to a rendered browser for pages that need JavaScript or interaction. The page also lists resumable, cancelable crawls and scheduled change monitoring with signed webhook alerts.
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$PaidCommerce or pricing visible
✦PrettyNotable craft visible
◎NicheUnusually specific use
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