About Trawl
Self-hosted scraping engine — bypasses any JS challenge & captcha: Cloudflare, Turnstile,
Trawl: questions and answers
- What is Trawl?
- Trawl is a self-hosted scraping engine — bypasses any JS challenge & captcha: Cloudflare, Turnstile,.
- Is Trawl open source?
- Yes. Trawl is open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence. Its source code is on GitHub at germondai/trawl and is written mainly in TypeScript.
- Is Trawl free?
- Yes. Trawl is open source, so the software itself is free to use.
- Can I self-host Trawl?
- Yes. Trawl can be self-hosted on your own server or infrastructure.
- Is Trawl actively maintained?
- Yes. The most recent commit to Trawl was on 6 October 2026, and the latest release is v1.7.0, published on 28 September 2026. The project has 946 stars on GitHub.