crw

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Quickstart — your first scrape in 30 seconds

Get a free API key → fastcrw.com/register — 500 free credits (1 credit ≈ 1 page), no card.

export CRW_API_KEY="crw_live_..."

# cURL — works anywhere, no SDK
curl -X POST https://api.fastcrw.com/v1/scrape \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CRW_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url":"https://example.com","formats":["markdown"]}'

<table> <tr><th>Python</th><th>Node.js</th></tr> <tr valign="top"><td>

pip install crw

from crw import CrwClient

crw = CrwClient()  # reads CRW_API_KEY from your env
page = crw.scrape("https://example.com",
                  formats=["markdown"])
print(page["markdown"])

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npm install crw-sdk

import { CrwClient } from "crw-sdk";

const crw = new CrwClient();  // reads CRW_API_KEY from your env
const page = await crw.scrape("https://example.com",
                              { formats: ["markdown"] });
console.log(page.markdown);

</td></tr> </table>

In both SDKs page is a plain object (markdown, metadata, contentType, …), so page["markdown"] / page.markdown is clean content:

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