OpenCrawl
OpenCrawl is a managed platform for building custom web crawlers, processing collected data, and hosting searchable indexes, letting developers integrate search directly into their products. Users can create tailored datasets and access them via CLI, API, or MCP, with a free tier that includes $10 of monthly usage and a pay-as-you-grow model. The service supports both internal data needs and external data sources for agent-driven search applications.
- Developer Tools
- Software Only
Funding
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Developers building products that require searchable, up-to-date data often face the burden of building and maintaining custom web crawlers, processing pipelines, and search infrastructure. This is time-consuming and distracts from core product development, especially when the data needs are dynamic and require continuous collection and indexing.
Solution
OpenCrawl provides a managed platform that builds custom web crawlers, runs the data processing, and hosts the search infrastructure, allowing developers to focus on their product. Users can define crawlers for external data sources, and OpenCrawl handles the collection, processing, and indexing. The resulting searchable datasets can be accessed directly from a product, or through coding tools and customer-facing agents via MCP, CLI, and API. The platform uses a single balance for collecting, processing, and searching data, simplifying cost management and scaling.
Target Audience
Primary users are developers and product teams who need to build searchable datasets from external web data and integrate search functionality into their applications or AI agents.
Features
- Custom crawler creation for external data sources, tailored to specific product needs
- Managed data processing and search infrastructure hosting, eliminating the need for in-house setup
- Access to datasets via MCP (Model Context Protocol), CLI, and API for flexible integration
- A unified usage balance covering collection, processing, and search, with a free tier offering $10 of monthly usage and a $25 starting credit
- No per-seat or per-crawler fees, with a pay-as-you-grow model that adds usage top-ups without a monthly subscription