Most web scraping projects are not unique snowflakes. Track competitor prices. Enrich a list of leads. Audit a site for SEO. Pull training data for a model. It is the same handful of recipes, over and over.

A web scraping template is one of those recipes, pre-wired: a ready-to-use JSON config that chains the right tools in the right order, so you copy it, point it at your targets, and run. CrawlForge ships 24 of them in the templates gallery. This guide is about using them well — not just copy-paste, but read, adapt, and cost them out before you scale.

TL;DR: A CrawlForge template is a copy-paste JSON config that chains multiple MCP tools into one workflow (price monitoring, lead enrichment, SEO audits, market research, AI training data). There are 24 across 9 categories, each costing 3–19 credits per run. Run them from Claude/Cursor, the crawlforge CLI, or the REST API. Free tier = 1,000 credits, no credit card.

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What Is a Web Scraping Template?