# firecrawl/open-scouts

🔥 AI-powered web monitoring platform. Create automated scouts that search the web and send email alerts when they find what you're looking for.

Repository: https://github.com/firecrawl/open-scouts
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/open-scouts
Homepage: https://openscouts.firecrawl.dev
Language: TypeScript
License Family: other
Topics: ai-agents, alerts, automation, email-notifications, firecrawl, nextjs, open-source, openai, posthog, react, resend, supabase, tailwindcss, typescript, vercel, web-monitoring, web-scraping
Last push: 2026-05-22T10:33:49+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 53/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 83, release rhythm 35, longevity 19
- inputs: {"age_days": 278, "days_push": 103, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1358, forks 190 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:29.662230+00:00)

## What it is
Open Scouts is an AI-powered web monitoring platform where users create automated 'scouts' that run on a schedule to search the web and send email alerts when they find relevant information. It is built as a self-hostable Next.js application using Supabase, OpenAI, Firecrawl, and Resend.

## Use cases
- monitor new restaurants opening near me
- track the latest AI news and get email digests
- watch for price drops or product availability on the web
- get notified when a competitor publishes new content
- continuously search the web for job postings matching criteria
- monitor mentions of a topic or brand across websites

## When to choose
- you want scheduled AI-driven web searches with email notifications
- you want a self-hostable Next.js + Supabase monitoring app you can customize
- you already use Firecrawl and OpenAI and want a ready-made agent workflow

## When to avoid
- you need a no-code hosted SaaS without managing API keys and a Supabase project
- you need real-time sub-minute monitoring rather than scheduled runs
- you need a license-guaranteed open-source project (no license is specified)

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, agent-framework, scheduling, email, search-engine, rag
- domain: web-development, monitoring
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: ai-scouts, web-monitoring, email-alerts, nextjs, supabase, openai, firecrawl, scheduled-tasks, automation, ai-agents, search, web-server, nodejs, typescript, vercel

## Member repositories
- firecrawl/open-scouts (main) score 53

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:29.662230+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 2026-08-30T04:41:45.824949+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/firecrawl/open-scouts (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:29.662230+00:00, sha f065dc3748a8)
  - homepage: https://openscouts.firecrawl.dev (fetched 2026-08-29T12:00:07.038080+00:00, sha b591f11c8902)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.