# nickscamara/open-deep-research

An open source deep research clone. AI Agent that reasons large amounts of web data extracted with Firecrawl

Repository: https://github.com/nickscamara/open-deep-research
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/open-deep-research
Homepage: https://firecrawl.dev/extract
Language: TypeScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2025-05-07T15:38:28+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 20/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 20, release rhythm 8, longevity 41
- inputs: {"age_days": 576, "days_push": 483, "days_rel": 567, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6282, forks 745 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:41.264176+00:00)

## What it is
An open-source clone of OpenAI's Deep Research, built as a Next.js web application. It uses Firecrawl's search and extract APIs to gather large amounts of web data and feeds it to a reasoning LLM (via the Vercel AI SDK) to produce in-depth research reports.

## Use cases
- run deep research on a topic using live web data
- self-host an open source alternative to OpenAI Deep Research
- build an AI agent that searches and extracts structured data from websites
- generate research reports from real-time web sources
- chat with an AI that reasons over scraped web content
- deploy a deep research clone to Vercel

## When to choose
- you want a self-hostable, customizable Deep Research clone
- you want to swap LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter) via the AI SDK
- you already use Firecrawl for web scraping and search
- you want a ready-to-deploy Next.js chat UI with auth and history

## When to avoid
- you need a fully free pipeline - Firecrawl and LLM APIs require paid API keys at scale
- you need a CLI or library rather than a full web application
- you need production-grade research quality matching OpenAI's fine-tuned o3 model
- you don't want to deploy on Vercel or manage Postgres/Blob storage

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: agent-framework, rag, web-scraping, chat-interface, search-engine, llm-inference
- domain: artificial-intelligence, web-development
- platform: self-hosted, cloud
- tags: deep-research, firecrawl, nextjs, ai-sdk, openai, openrouter, vercel, chatbot-ui, ai-agents, retrieval-augmented-generation, natural-language-processing, web-server, nodejs

## Member repositories
- nickscamara/open-deep-research (main) score 20

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:41.264176+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:46:27.771884+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/nickscamara/open-deep-research (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:41.264176+00:00, sha 8e71ea8839ec)
  - homepage: https://firecrawl.dev/extract (fetched 2026-08-29T08:43:26.497538+00:00, sha a689a1fa3624)
  - site_page: https://www.firecrawl.dev/about (fetched 2026-08-29T08:43:26.521123+00:00, sha bdcf3e2e7864)
  - site_page: https://docs.firecrawl.dev (fetched 2026-08-29T08:43:26.510692+00:00, sha 8fc2a836e7ce)
  - site_page: https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/agent (fetched 2026-08-29T08:43:26.513530+00:00, sha 8ba0d091ad5e)
  - site_page: https://www.firecrawl.dev/app (fetched 2026-08-29T08:43:26.519405+00:00, sha df57bbdecb9d)
  - site_page: https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing (fetched 2026-08-29T08:43:26.507956+00:00, sha 20bbcfacfeac)
  - site_page: https://www.firecrawl.dev/changelog (fetched 2026-08-29T08:43:26.515986+00:00, sha 5183c40fe736)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.