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Show HN: Draco – A single-binary, self-hostable Firecrawl alternative in Rust
Draco is a single-binary, self-hostable web scraper written in Rust that serves as a lighter alternative to Firecrawl, designed to extract clean Markdown and metadata from web pages without requiring Node.js or a headless browser fleet. It uses browser-faithful TLS/JA4 fingerprinting to bypass client blocking, processes most standard HTML pages in ~300ms, and handles JavaScript-rendered content through native rendering capabilities. The tool can be quickly installed via script and outputs structured Markdown with stripped boilerplate, plus comprehensive metadata and timing information.
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