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Q: How does Plasmate compare to Firecrawl / Jina Reader / Crawl4AI?
Those are scraping tools that output markdown or HTML. Plasmate is a browser engine that outputs a structured Semantic Object Model (SOM) with 10x token compression. It also runs JavaScript via V8 and is compatible with Puppeteer via CDP.
Q: Does Plasmate execute JavaScript?
Yes. Plasmate includes a V8 runtime that executes page scripts, including React/Vue/Angular hydration.
Q: Can I use Plasmate as a Puppeteer replacement?
Yes. Start the server with plasmate serve --protocol cdp and connect Puppeteer to ws://127.0.0.1:9222.
Q: Is Plasmate free?
The engine is Apache 2.0, free forever. Plasmate Cloud (managed fleet, SOM Cache CDN) is a commercial product.
Q: What's the W3C Community Group?
We're incubating the SOM format and robots.txt directives through the W3C Web Content Browser for AI Agents Community Group: https://www.w3.org/community/web-content-browser-ai/
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Q: How does Plasmate compare to Firecrawl / Jina Reader / Crawl4AI?
Those are scraping tools that output markdown or HTML. Plasmate is a browser engine that outputs a structured Semantic Object Model (SOM) with 10x token compression. It also runs JavaScript via V8 and is compatible with Puppeteer via CDP.
Q: Does Plasmate execute JavaScript?
Yes. Plasmate includes a V8 runtime that executes page scripts, including React/Vue/Angular hydration.
Q: Can I use Plasmate as a Puppeteer replacement?
Yes. Start the server with
plasmate serve --protocol cdpand connect Puppeteer tows://127.0.0.1:9222.Q: Is Plasmate free?
The engine is Apache 2.0, free forever. Plasmate Cloud (managed fleet, SOM Cache CDN) is a commercial product.
Q: What's the W3C Community Group?
We're incubating the SOM format and robots.txt directives through the W3C Web Content Browser for AI Agents Community Group: https://www.w3.org/community/web-content-browser-ai/
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