webpeel/webpeel

v0.8.0 Breaking

This release includes 2 breaking changes for platform teams planning a safe upgrade.

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Topics

ai-agent ai-agents browser-automation claude-code codex content-extraction

+14 more

cursor firecrawl-alternative mcp mcp-server model-context-protocol llm screenshot structured-data token-efficiency typescript web-crawler web-data web-scraping web-search

Affected surfaces

auth

Summary

AI summary

License changed from MIT to AGPL-3.0; server-only premium features removed from npm package.

Full changelog

🔒 License Change: MIT → AGPL-3.0

WebPeel is now licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0.

What this means:

✅ Free to use, modify, and distribute
✅ Free for personal and commercial use
⚠️ If you run a modified version as a network service, you must release your source code under AGPL-3.0
📧 Commercial/enterprise licensing available — contact [email protected]

Versions 0.7.1 and earlier remain MIT-licensed.

🏗️ Premium Server Architecture

Server-only optimizations are no longer shipped in the npm package:

SWR cache (stale-while-revalidate) — server-only
Domain intelligence (learns which sites need browser/stealth) — server-only
Parallel race strategy (simple + browser simultaneously) — server-only
Hook-based strategy pattern — extensible fetch pipeline via registerStrategyHooks()

npm/CLI users get clean simple→browser→stealth escalation. API server gets the full premium pipeline.

✨ Other Improvements

Chrome 131 impersonation headers for better anti-detection
GFM table conversion with turndown-plugin-gfm
Enhanced content cleaning (paywall gates, chat widgets, login walls)
Dashboard CSP hardened with api.github.com connect-src
All site pages updated with AGPL-3.0 license references
Changelog updated with v0.8.0 entry

📊 Benchmark Results (v7)

| Tool | Success Rate | Median Speed | Quality |
|------|-------------|-------------|---------|
| WebPeel | 100% (30/30) | 373ms | 92.3% |
| Firecrawl | 93.3% | 231ms | 77.9% |
| Exa | 93.3% | 132ms | 83.2% |
| Tavily | 83.3% | 47ms | 81.2% |

Full Changelog: https://github.com/webpeel/webpeel/compare/v0.7.1...v0.8.0

Breaking Changes

License updated from MIT to GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0).
Server‑only premium features (SWR cache, domain intelligence, parallel race strategy, hook‑based strategy pattern) removed from the npm package; only simple→browser→stealth escalation remains for CLI users.

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About webpeel/webpeel

Smart web fetcher for AI agents with auto-escalation from HTTP to headless browser to stealth mode. Includes 9 MCP tools: fetch, search, crawl, map, extract, batch, screenshot, jobs, and agent. Achieved 100% success rate on a 30-URL benchmark.

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