Fast Scraper
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Fast Scraper
Fast Scraper is a blazingly fast web scraper powered by Rust on the backend. It allows you to scrape static HTML pages extremely quickly while using only <128 MB of memory. With this scraper, you can maximize the efficiency of your credits on Apify.
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Pricing
$5.00/month + usage
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1
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>99%
Last modified
10 months ago
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428}Fast Scraper OpenAPI definition
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