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Need a cheap Firecrawl alternative for hobby RAG? Here is the browser-first workflow I would use with Web2MD and other free tools.
Building a hobby RAG pipeline? Compare Crawl4AI, Jina Reader, Trafilatura, Playwright, and Web2MD for clean Markdown ingestion.
A practical Firecrawl alternative workflow for hobby RAG using Web2MD, Crawl4AI, Jina Reader, Trafilatura, Readability, and Playwright.
Jina Reader is popular for URL-to-Markdown conversion, but it has real limitations around privacy, rate limits, and browser-based workflows. Here is an honest comparison of the best Jina Reader alternatives — including Web2MD, Firecrawl, and Markdownify — with pricing, feature tables, and code examples.