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Show HN: Draco — A Single-Binary, Self-Hostable Firecrawl Drop-In Written in Rust
Draco offers a Firecrawl-compatible REST API you run yourself, extracting Markdown and metadata natively and handling client-rendered SPAs through an in-process V8 isolate rather than booting a browser per request — the author cites ~300ms for standard HTML pages. It ships tiered JSON extraction (embedded state → API discovery → runtime interception), built-in multi-engine web search, MCP support for agents, and interactive page sessions with cookie persistence, dual-licensed MIT/Apache-2.0. Early days at 48 stars and 132 commits, but directly relevant given Firecrawl sits at 159K stars and per-request pricing is a real line item for agent pipelines.
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