{"id":"0xmassi-webclaw","name":"webclaw","af_score":58.8,"security_score":52.8,"reliability_score":32.5,"what_it_does":"webclaw is a self-hosted, local-first web scraping/extraction tool written in Rust. It fetches and extracts main content from URLs into LLM-friendly outputs (e.g., markdown/text/JSON), supports crawling and sitemap mapping, and includes an MCP server plus optional cloud API for protected/JS-heavy sites and “LLM features” (summarize/extract/search/research).","best_when":"You want fast, self-hosted web content extraction that produces LLM-optimized outputs, and you use an MCP-capable agent client (Claude Desktop/Code, Cursor, etc.).","avoid_when":"You need strict API contract guarantees (the README provides limited REST API details) or you must adhere to strict legal/compliance constraints around scraping/target-site access—validate before deployment.","last_evaluated":"2026-03-30T13:40:27.469076+00:00","has_mcp":true,"has_api":false,"auth_methods":["WEBCLAW_API_KEY (cloud API key)","Ollama connectivity via OLLAMA_HOST for local LLM features","OPENAI_API_KEY for LLM features","ANTHROPIC_API_KEY for LLM features"],"has_free_tier":false,"known_gotchas":["Crawling/batching may be sensitive to target site rate limits/robots; README does not provide explicit retry/idempotency guidance.","Some MCP tools depend on local LLM runtime (Ollama) or external providers (OpenAI/Anthropic); tool availability may vary by deployment.","Cloud fallback/bot-detection behavior is described at a high level; exact triggering conditions and error modes are not documented in the provided README."],"error_quality":0.0}