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The Crawl · Issue 04
Editorial illustration of agents traversing the live web
This month
Web agents grow up.
The agents that actually use the web are
graduating from demos to production. That shift
changes what we ask of infrastructure: privacy
controls, real frameworks, and extraction that
survives interactive sites.
Three reads we kept open in a tab this month.
01
Firecrawl Blog · Privacy
Lockdown Mode: /scrape Without Touching
the Web
A new cache-only scrape mode with zero
outbound requests and zero data retention.
One flag, available across every SDK, the
CLI, and MCP — built for regulated
workloads and air-gapped agent runs.
Read the post →
02
Changelog · Open Source
Introducing web-agent
An open framework for building AI agents
that search, scrape, and interact with the
live web. Bring any model, swap skills
like Lego — designed for teams shipping
agent loops in production, not toys.
Read the post →
03
arXiv · Research
WebLists: Structured Extraction From
Interactive Sites
A recent paper pushing past
navigation-only web agents toward
structured extraction at scale — tackling
the messy, JS-heavy sites where most real
data actually lives.
Read the paper →
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a few of our favorites in the next issue —
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all welcome.
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