Show HN: Pathik – Low-Memory, Fast Firecrawl Alternative for LLM Markdown

I built Pathik, a blazing-fast Firecrawl replacement, at a hackathon in under an hour and am now open-sourcing it!

What is Pathik?

• A high-performance web crawler written in Golang with Pythonic bindings

• Uses 134x less memory than Playwright (thanks to Rod)

• Supports proxies

• Outputs clean Markdown, making it LLM-friendly for fine-tuning & retrieval use cases

Why does this matter?

• Avoids bloated browser automation

• Ideal for structured web crawling for LLMs, RAG pipelines, and knowledge extraction

• Simple pip install pathik and you’re ready to go

Try it out

pip install pathik

Example script:

github.com/justrach/pathik/blob/main/examples/example.py

If you find it useful, drop a : github.com/justrach/pathik

Would love feedback & contributions!