AI-Powered Website Data Extraction Tools: Firecrawl vs. Airtop

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Stop wasting time building scrapers. Here's 2 tools to extract website's data with AI in your automations. Ever tried extracting a list of companies a website? What starts as a simple task quickly becomes a nightmare of pagination, hidden data, and dynamic loading. I just wrapped up an intensive test comparing Firecrawl and Airtop, extracting VC portfolio data from various websites. Here's what I discovered: Each tool excels in distinct areas: • 🔥Firecrawl converts entire websites into LLM-ready data, handling complex tasks like reverse proxies and JavaScript rendering. It can map out an entire site, extract content from all pages or extract structured data with AI (in beta). Oh, and it's easy to integrate with Zapier. • 🔝Airtop specializes in browser automation with visual recognition and authentication capabilities. It's the safest and best to authorize and save your 'sessions' in sites that require login - so you can automate workflows there over and over. It can click, paginate, query data from pages, scrape and more... one operation at a time. It can also integrate with Make. So both tools offer no-code solutions for different extraction needs. The optimal solution? Not one or the other. Know when to use them. For instance, in my test I found a strategic combination in both: 1. Used Firecrawl → map all the pages inside of a domain 2. OpenAI → find the target page I need (ex: hustlefund. vc/founders) 3. Airtop →for data extraction in the target page (ex: company list) That way, Airtop can even read through images and logos to get key information a scraper would skip. 4. Clay → Data enrichment of the data you get That's how you combine the best of each tool. There's rarely a silver bullet in RevOps automation. __ Curious to learn about real use-cases of web automation? Follow along🔔