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Cockroach Crawler
Built to be the best AI crawler for governed agents.
Give AI agents the web without handing them unrestricted network access. Cockroach Crawler is an open-source Node.js toolkit for static and rendered crawling, adaptive traversal, screenshots, PDFs, structured extraction, public GitHub and YouTube reads, MCP, Docker, and Cloudflare Workers. It returns Markdown, JSON, and evidence records through explicit origins, budgets, and runtime controls.
Hey Product Hunt - I built Cockroach Crawler after hitting the same problem again and again: an AI agent could reason about the web, but giving it a normal browser or unrestricted network tool meant giving it way too much authority.
The safer tools I tried solved that by limiting authority, but they also removed so many useful capabilities that the agent could not finish real work. I wanted the point where both sides meet - broad crawling, browser, extraction, and agent features, while the host still owns the origins, budgets, hooks, credentials, and evidence trail.
So I built one Node.js package that can crawl static pages, render JavaScript apps, follow adaptive crawl paths, capture screenshots and PDFs, extract Markdown or structured data, read public GitHub and YouTube sources, and connect through JavaScript, CLI, MCP, Docker, or a Worker.
It is open source, works on Node 22, 24, and 26, and the full test and benchmark evidence is public.
I would genuinely love people here to break it. If you test it, tell me the OS, Node version, public URL, and the smallest reproducible failure. That feedback is worth more than a generic "looks cool" comment.
- Ajnas
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About Cockroach Crawler on Product Hunt
“Built to be the best AI crawler for governed agents.”
Cockroach Crawler was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #42 on the daily leaderboard. Give AI agents the web without handing them unrestricted network access. Cockroach Crawler is an open-source Node.js toolkit for static and rendered crawling, adaptive traversal, screenshots, PDFs, structured extraction, public GitHub and YouTube reads, MCP, Docker, and Cloudflare Workers. It returns Markdown, JSON, and evidence records through explicit origins, budgets, and runtime controls.
Cockroach Crawler was featured in Open Source (68.7k followers), Developer Tools (517.5k followers), Artificial Intelligence (475.9k followers) and GitHub (41.4k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 233.8k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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Cockroach Crawler was hunted by Ajnas N B. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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