Show HN: Draco – A single-binary, self-hostable Firecrawl alternative in Rust
Draco A fast, stealth, native-Rust web scraper — a lighter alternative to Firecrawl / Browserbase. Point it at a URL and get clean Markdown + metadata back, using a browser-faithful TLS/JA4 fingerprint to reach pages that block ordinary clients. No Node, no headless-Chrome fleet, no per-request browser boot.
- ▪Draco A fast, stealth, native-Rust web scraper — a lighter alternative to Firecrawl / Browserbase.
- ▪Point it at a URL and get clean Markdown + metadata back, using a browser-faithful TLS/JA4 fingerprint to reach pages that block ordinary clients.
- ▪No Node, no headless-Chrome fleet, no per-request browser boot.
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Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/0xchasercat/draco/ |
| Publication time | Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:48:45 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-02T21:10:40.989Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-02T21:10:40.989Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | LhATNRqEZm3C · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Draco A fast, stealth, native-Rust web scraper — a lighter alternative to Firecrawl / Browserbase. Point it at a URL and get clean Markdown + metadata back, using a browser-faithful TLS/JA4 fingerprint to reach pages that block ordinary clients. No Node, no headless-Chrome fleet, no per-request browser boot. The fastest way to install Draco on Linux or macOS is via the install script: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xchasercat/draco/main/install.sh | sh (This will automatically detect your OS/architecture, download the latest binary, and add it to your ~/.zshrc, ~/.bashrc, or ~/.config/fish/config.fish) Then try scraping a page: draco scrape https://example.com # → clean Markdown on stdout For a standard HTML page that's a single fingerprinted fetch + parse — typically ~300…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.