Crawly for Web

Overview

Crawly lets you harvest website content quickly without writing scraping scripts. It’s designed for businesses and individuals who need fast access to web data for tasks like lead generation, market research or content audits. The tool mimics how search engines read pages to pull useful information from articles.

How it works

Crawly relies on Diffbot’s automatic article extraction API to transform web pages into organized records. Rather than dumping raw HTML, it parses pages and returns concise fields that are immediately usable for building databases or running competitive analysis.

Extracted information

• Language and locale indicators
• Names of images and videos found on the page
• Full HTML of the article when needed
• The main article text and body content
• User comments and other discussion elements
• Page titles and headline text
• Additional metadata and auxiliary fields

These items are prepared so you can export them into standard data files.

Output options and current limits

• Export formats: CSV and JSON
• Page allowance: limited to 200 pages per crawl in the current release
• Content scope: focused on articles for now; support for other content types is planned

Who it’s best for

Crawly is ideal for people who need to crawl a handful of sites and prefer a simple, no-cost solution. It’s particularly useful for non-technical users who want clean, structured outputs without setting up complex scraping pipelines.

Considerations and alternatives

While Crawly is user-friendly and free, it lacks advanced features found in paid scraping platforms. If you require larger-scale crawls or richer data types, consider exploring more feature-rich tools. For a free option aimed specifically at creating sitemaps, try a dedicated sitemap generator as a complementary utility.