---
type: "firecrawl-provider"
description: "AlternativeTo (alternativeto.net): crowd-sourced software catalog. Search apps, list alternatives to an app with platform/license/feature filters, browse the catalog by tag, and read an app's full public record (license, pricing, platforms, features, links, GitHub and App Store stats, ratings and reviews). Anonymous, read-only, English."
use_when: "AlternativeTo (alternativeto.net): crowd-sourced software catalog. Search apps, list alternatives to an app with platform/license/feature filters, browse the catalog by tag, and read an app's full public record (license, pricing, platforms, features, links, GitHub and App Store stats, ratings and reviews). Anonymous, read-only, English."
categories: "Apps"
capabilities: 4
credits_per_call: 5
---
# AlternativeTo on Firecrawl Alexandria

AlternativeTo (alternativeto.net): crowd-sourced software catalog. Search apps, list alternatives to an app with platform/license/feature filters, browse the catalog by tag, and read an app's full public record (license, pricing, platforms, features, links, GitHub and App Store stats, ratings and reviews). Anonymous, read-only, English.

- Categories: Apps
- Category index: [Apps category](https://firecrawl.dev/alexandria/agents/categories/apps)
- Provider key: `alternativeto-net`
- Access: Firecrawl credits
- Cost: 5 credits per call

## More

- [Human guide](https://firecrawl.dev/app/alexandria/alternativeto-net)
- [OpenAPI spec](https://firecrawl.dev/alexandria/agents/providers/alternativeto-net/openapi.json)

## Capabilities

- [Browse software](https://firecrawl.dev/alexandria/agents/providers/alternativeto-net/apps/browse_software): Browse the whole catalog (/browse/all/ as RSC flight) filtered by tag (category or subcategory slug), platform, license and feature, sorted by the site's default, likes or views. One page of 25 apps with paging.
- [Get alternatives](https://firecrawl.dev/alexandria/agents/providers/alternativeto-net/apps/get_alternatives): Alternatives to one app from /software/{url_name}/ (RSC flight): the main app, one page of 12 alternatives with their top opinions, the site's filter options with counts, and paging. Filters by platform, license, feature; sort by likes or views.
- [Get software](https://firecrawl.dev/alexandria/agents/providers/alternativeto-net/apps/get_software): Full public record of one app from its about page (/software/{url_name}/about/ as RSC flight): description, tag line, pricing, license, platforms, features, categories, external links, publisher, GitHub and App Store metadata the site mirrors, star rating and the reviews embedded in the page's JSON-LD.
- [Search software](https://firecrawl.dev/alexandria/agents/providers/alternativeto-net/apps/search_software): Search AlternativeTo's software catalog by name or keyword through the server-rendered search page (/browse/search/?q=, Algolia-backed, read as the Next.js RSC flight). Returns one page of 15 apps with slug, license, platforms, likes and alternatives count, plus the total.

## 1. Choose this provider when

AlternativeTo (alternativeto.net): crowd-sourced software catalog. Search apps, list alternatives to an app with platform/license/feature filters, browse the catalog by tag, and read an app's full public record (license, pricing, platforms, features, links, GitHub and App Store stats, ratings and reviews). Anonymous, read-only, English.

## 2. Minimal request

Call `POST https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape` with `{ alexandria: { provider, capability, options } }`. For a batch, send `{ alexandria: [...] }` with up to 10 calls.

```json
{
  "provider": "alternativeto-net",
  "capability": "apps/browse_software",
  "options": {
    "sort": "likes",
    "tag": "lemmy-client"
  }
}
```

## 3. Add provider options

Use only the options needed for the task:

- `feature` (string): Feature filter url_name (e.g. note-taking, privacy-focused, ad-free). Pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9._-]+$. Example: `<feature>`
- `license` (string): License filter url_name (e.g. free, opensource, gpl-3.0, mit). Pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9._-]+$. Example: `<license>`
- `page` (number): 1-based page; pass the returned next_cursor to continue. Example: `1`
- `platform` (string): Platform filter url_name from a previous result's platforms[].url_name or filters.platforms (e.g. android, windows, mac, linux, online, self-hosted). Pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9._-]+$. Example: `<platform>`
- `sort` (string): Site sort options beyond the default ranking. Example: `likes`
- `tag` (string): Category, subcategory or feature slug (e.g. note-taking, social-network, photo-editor). Pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9._-]+$. Example: `<tag>`

## 4. Request through your preferred interface

### JavaScript

```javascript
const result = await firecrawl.scrape({
  alexandria: {
    provider: "alternativeto-net",
    capability: "apps/browse_software",
    options: {
      sort: "likes",
      tag: "lemmy-client",
    },
  },
});
```

### Python

```python
result = firecrawl.scrape_alexandria({
  "provider": "alternativeto-net",
  "capability": "apps/browse_software",
  "options": {
    "sort": "likes",
    "tag": "lemmy-client"
  }
})
```

### cURL

```sh
curl https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FIRECRAWL_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "alexandria": {
    "provider": "alternativeto-net",
    "capability": "apps/browse_software",
    "options": {
      "sort": "likes",
      "tag": "lemmy-client"
    }
  }
}'
```

### CLI

```sh
firecrawl scrape 'alternativeto-net/apps/browse_software' \
  --options '{"sort":"likes","tag":"lemmy-client"}'
```


### MCP

Call the FCX MCP retrieve tool with this object:

```json
{
  "provider": "alternativeto-net",
  "capability": "apps/browse_software",
  "options": {
    "sort": "likes",
    "tag": "lemmy-client"
  }
}
```

Ask for only the returned fields needed by the task.

## 5. Full request shape

```json
{
  "provider": "alternativeto-net",
  "capability": "apps/browse_software",
  "options": {
    "sort": "likes",
    "tag": "lemmy-client"
  }
}
```

## 6. Response data

The response includes `success`, `provider`, `capability`, `creditsCost` and `data`. This example shows the provider payload in `data`:

```json
{
  "filters_applied": {
    "feature": "lemmy-client",
    "license": null,
    "platform": null,
    "sort": "likes",
    "tag": "lemmy-client"
  },
  "observed_at_ms": 1791238415809,
  "paging": {
    "has_next": false,
    "page": 1,
    "page_size": 25,
    "total_count": 24,
    "total_pages": 1
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "alerts": [],
      "alternatives_count": 86,
      "company": {
        "country_code": "ZZ",
        "name": "Dessalines",
        "number_of_apps": 6,
        "region": "Global",
        "url": "https://github.com/dessalines",
        "url_name": "dessalines"
      },
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/lemmy_244210.svg",
      "id": "a35cabdd-9a0e-458d-8a99-b81174c5d856",
      "is_discontinued": false,
      "license": {
        "family": "agpl",
        "long_name": "GNU Affero General Public License v3.0",
        "more_info_url": "https://choosealicense.com/licenses/agpl-3.0/",
        "spdx_id": "AGPL-3.0",
        "url_name": "agpl-3.0"
      },
      "license_cost": "Free",
      "license_model": "Open Source",
      "likes": 214,
      "name": "Lemmy",
      "platforms": [
        {
          "name": "Online",
          "platform_type": "web",
          "url_name": "online"
        },
        {
          "name": "Android",
          "platform_type": "mobile",
          "url_name": "android"
        },
        {
          "name": "iPhone",
          "platform_type": "mobile",
          "url_name": "iphone"
        },
        {
          "name": "Self-Hosted",
          "platform_type": "web",
          "url_name": "self-hosted"
        }
      ],
      "rating": {
        "count": 25,
        "value": 4
      },
      "release_date": "2019-04-18T00:00:00Z",
      "review_count": 17,
      "short_description": "Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News: you subscribe to forums you're interested in, post links and discussions, then vote, and comment on them. Behind the scenes, it is very different; anyone can easily run a server, and all these servers are...",
      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/lemmy/about/",
      "url_name": "lemmy"
    },
    {
      "alerts": [],
      "alternatives_count": 23,
      "company": {
        "country_code": "US",
        "name": "Alexander Harding",
        "number_of_apps": 2,
        "region": "Americas",
        "url": "https://harding.dev",
        "url_name": "alexander-harding"
      },
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/wefwef_252345.svg",
      "id": "a8ae9f02-8d60-4ea4-bc3e-e3fe22843ba2",
      "is_discontinued": false,
      "license": {
        "family": "agpl",
        "long_name": "GNU Affero General Public License v3.0",
        "more_info_url": "https://choosealicense.com/licenses/agpl-3.0/",
        "spdx_id": "AGPL-3.0",
        "url_name": "agpl-3.0"
      },
      "license_cost": "Free",
      "license_model": "Open Source",
      "likes": 20,
      "name": "Voyager for Lemmy",
      "platforms": [
        {
          "name": "Online",
          "platform_type": "web",
          "url_name": "online"
        },
        {
          "name": "Android",
          "platform_type": "mobile",
          "url_name": "android"
        },
        {
          "name": "iPhone",
          "platform_type": "mobile",
          "url_name": "iphone"
        },
        {
          "name": "Android Tablet",
          "platform_type": "tablet",
          "url_name": "android-tablet"
        },
        {
          "name": "iPad",
          "platform_type": "tablet",
          "url_name": "ipad"
        },
        {
          "name": "Apple Watch",
          "platform_type": "wearable",
          "url_name": "apple-watch"
        },
        {
          "name": "Flathub",
          "platform_type": "unknown",
          "url_name": "flathub"
        },
        {
          "name": "F-Droid",
          "platform_type": "unknown",
          "url_name": "f-droid"
        },
        {
          "name": "Flatpak",
          "platform_type": "unknown",
          "url_name": "flatpak"
        },
        {
          "name": "OpenAPK",
          "platform_type": "unknown",
          "url_name": "openapk"
        }
      ],
      "rating": null,
      "release_date": "2023-07-04T00:00:00Z",
      "review_count": 1,
      "short_description": "Voyager is an Apollo-like open source web client for [Lemmy](/software/lemmy/about/) amd [PieFed](/software/piefed/about/) . It's a mobile-first app, but works great on desktop devices, too. Please feel free to try it out!",
      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/wefwef/about/",
      "url_name": "wefwef"
    },
    {
      "alerts": [],
      "alternatives_count": 22,
      "company": null,
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/jerboa-for-lemmy_204370.png",
      "id": "cae2ec2e-4e86-4393-8f35-137632207169",
      "is_discontinued": false,
      "license": {
        "family": "agpl",
        "long_name": "GNU Affero General Public License v3.0",
        "more_info_url": "https://choosealicense.com/licenses/agpl-3.0/",
        "spdx_id": "AGPL-3.0",
        "url_name": "agpl-3.0"
      },
      "license_cost": "Free",
      "license_model": "Open Source",
      "likes": 14,
      "name": "Jerboa for Lemmy",
      "platforms": [
        {
          "name": "Android",
          "platform_type": "mobile",
          "url_name": "android"
        },
        {
          "name": "F-Droid",
          "platform_type": "unknown",
          "url_name": "f-droid"
        }
      ],
      "rating": null,
      "release_date": "2022-04-01T22:52:00Z",
      "review_count": 0,
      "short_description": "Jerboa is an app for Lemmy, a federated reddit alternative. Jerboa is made by Lemmy's developers, and is free, open-source software, meaning no advertising, monetizing, or venture capital, ever.",
      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/jerboa-for-lemmy/about/",
      "url_name": "jerboa-for-lemmy"
    },
    {
      "alerts": [],
      "alternatives_count": 23,
      "company": {
        "country_code": "ZZ",
        "name": "Bazsalanszky",
        "number_of_apps": 1,
        "region": "Global",
        "url": "https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky",
        "url_name": "bazsalanszky"
      },
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/eternity_223639.png",
      "id": "4a1ee247-0290-40dd-aace-97d066715fa1",
      "is_discontinued": false,
      "license": {
        "family": "agpl",
        "long_name": "GNU Affero General Public License v3.0",
        "more_info_url": "https://choosealicense.com/licenses/agpl-3.0/",
        "spdx_id": "AGPL-3.0",
        "url_name": "agpl-3.0"
      },
      "license_cost": "Free",
      "license_model": "Open Source",
      "likes": 13,
      "name": "Eternity",
      "platforms": [
        {
          "name": "Android",
          "platform_type": "mobile",
          "url_name": "android"
        },
        {
          "name": "F-Droid",
          "platform_type": "unknown",
          "url_name": "f-droid"
        }
      ],
      "rating": null,
      "release_date": "2023-08-29T00:00:00Z",
      "review_count": 3,
      "short_description": "A client for Lemmy, specifically designed for Android and written in Java. This project is a fork of the Infinity for Reddit project, and it is currently in the early stages of development. As such, expect many unfinished features and potential bugs!",
      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/eternity/about/",
      "url_name": "eternity"
    },
    {
      "alerts": [],
      "alternatives_count": 23,
      "company": {
        "country_code": "CA",
        "name": "Hamlet Jiang Su",
        "number_of_apps": 1,
        "region": "Americas",
        "url": null,
        "url_name": "hamlet-jiang-su"
      },
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/thunder-lemmy-client_218613.png",
      "id": "b113a867-423e-44ce-a56d-30eedd6cccfe",
      "is_discontinued": false,
      "license": {
        "family": "agpl",
        "long_name": "GNU Affero General Public License v3.0",
        "more_info_url": "https://choosealicense.com/licenses/agpl-3.0/",
        "spdx_id": "AGPL-3.0",
        "url_name": "agpl-3.0"
      },
      "license_cost": "Free",
      "license_model": "Open Source",
      "likes": 11,
      "name": "Thunder for Lemmy",
      "platforms": [
        {
          "name": "Android",
          "platform_type": "mobile",
          "url_name": "android"
        },
        {
          "name": "iPhone",
          "platform_type": "mobile",
          "url_name": "iphone"
        },
        {
          "name": "AltStore",
          "platform_type": "unknown",
          "url_name": "altstore"
        },
        {
          "name": "F-Droid",
          "platform_type": "unknown",
          "url_name": "f-droid"
        }
      ],
      "rating": null,
      "release_date": "2023-06-19T00:00:00Z",
      "review_count": 1,
      "short_description": "Thunder is an open-source cross-platform Lemmy client for iOS and Android built with Flutter. It lets you browse community posts (and subscriptions if logged in), search for communities from the current instance (and subscribe), see a specific post and its associated comments...",
      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/thunder-lemmy-client/about/",
      "url_name": "thunder-lemmy-client"
    },
    {
      "alerts": [],
      "alternatives_count": 23,
      "company": {
        "country_code": "IT",
        "name": "LiveFastEatTrashRaccoon ",
        "number_of_apps": 1,
        "region": "Europe",
        "url": null,
        "url_name": "livefasteattrashraccoon"
      },
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/raccoon-for-lemmy_245769.png",
      "id": "d1a3e5f7-6ad9-45ca-9567-3d477ca44c19",
      "is_discontinued": false,
      "license": {
        "family": "gpl",
        "long_name": "GNU General Public License v3.0",
        "more_info_url": "https://choosealicense.com/licenses/gpl-3.0/",
        "spdx_id": "GPL-3.0",
        "url_name": "gpl-3.0"
      },
      "license_cost": "Free",
      "license_model": "Open Source",
      "likes": 11,
      "name": "Raccoon for Lemmy",
      "platforms": [
        {
          "name": "Android",
          "platform_type": "mobile",
          "url_name": "android"
        },
        {
          "name": "F-Droid",
          "platform_type": "unknown",
          "url_name": "f-droid"
        },
        {
          "name": "GitHub",
          "platform_type": "unknown",
          "url_name": "github"
        }
      ],
      "rating": null,
      "release_date": "2024-03-05T00:00:00Z",
      "review_count": 0,
      "short_description": "Raccoon for Lemmy is a client for the federated aggregation and discussion platform Lemmy. The project is powered by Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) and Compose Multiplatform (CMP).",
      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/raccoon-for-lemmy/about/",
      "url_name": "raccoon-for-lemmy"
    },
    {
      "alerts": [],
      "alternatives_count": 21,
      "company": {
        "country_code": null,
        "name": "Xyphyn",
        "number_of_apps": 1,
        "region": null,
        "url": null,
        "url_name": "xyphyn"
      },
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/photon-client_244476.png",
      "id": "d03a8803-a0f0-4873-a988-88e731fb2922",
      "is_discontinued": false,
      "license": {
        "family": "agpl",
        "long_name": "GNU Affero General Public License v3.0",
        "more_info_url": "https://choosealicense.com/licenses/agpl-3.0/",
        "spdx_id": "AGPL-3.0",
        "url_name": "agpl-3.0"
      },
      "license_cost": "Free",
      "license_model": "Open Source",
      "likes": 10,
      "name": "Photon Client",
      "platforms": [
        {
          "name": "Online",
          "platform_type": "web",
          "url_name": "online"
        },
        {
          "name": "Self-Hosted",
          "platform_type": "web",
          "url_name": "self-hosted"
        }
      ],
      "rating": null,
      "release_date": "2025-01-18T00:00:00Z",
      "review_count": 2,
      "short_description": "A better, more intuitive way to use Lemmy, with a cleaner UI, more features, and snappier usage. It is designed for all features to have an appealing and intuitive design, while being fast.",
      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/photon-client/about/",
      "url_name": "photon-client"
    },
    {
      "alerts": [],
      "alternatives_count": 21,
      "company": {
        "country_code": null,
        "name": "John Wesle",
        "number_of_apps": 1,
        "region": null,
        "url": null,
        "url_name": "john-wesle"
      },
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/interstellar_228613.png",
      "id": "98bce3d4-fee7-4849-b259-4bfff4947dcc",
      "is_discontinued": false,
      "license": {
        "family": "agpl",
        "long_name": "GNU Affero General Public License v3.0",
        "more_info_url": "https://choosealicense.com/licenses/agpl-3.0/",
        "spdx_id": "AGPL-3.0",
        "url_name": "agpl-3.0"
      },
      "license_cost": "Free",
      "license_model": "Open Source",
      "likes": 7,
      "name": "Interstellar",
      "platforms": [
        {
          "name": "Linux",
          "platform_type": "desktop",
          "url_name": "linux"
        },
        {
          "name": "Flathub",
          "platform_type": "unknown",
          "url_name": "flathub"
        },
        {
          "name": "Android",
          "platform_type": "mobile",
          "url_name": "android"
        },
        {
          "name": "F-Droid",
          "platform_type": "unknown",
          "url_name": "f-droid"
        }
      ],
      "rating": null,
      "release_date": "2024-03-08T00:00:00Z",
      "review_count": 0,
      "short_description": "Interstellar is a Fediverse client, allowing you to access your Kbin, Mbin, and Lemmy accounts and interact with your favorite communities.",
      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/interstellar/about/",
      "url_name": "interstellar"
    },
    {
      "alerts": [],
      "alternatives_count": 24,
      "company": {
        "country_code": null,
        "name": "sheodox",
        "number_of_apps": 1,
        "region": null,
        "url": null,
        "url_name": "sheodox"
      },
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/alexandrite_219848.webp",
      "id": "ab29ae3f-e247-4155-bee6-337aeee424df",
      "is_discontinued": false,
      "license": {
        "family": "agpl",
        "long_name": "GNU Affero General Public License v3.0",
        "more_info_url": "https://choosealicense.com/licenses/agpl-3.0/",
        "spdx_id": "AGPL-3.0",
        "url_name": "agpl-3.0"
      },
      "license_cost": "Free",
      "license_model": "Open Source",
      "likes": 6,
      "name": "Alexandrite",
      "platforms": [
        {
          "name": "Online",
          "platform_type": "web",
          "url_name": "online"
        }
      ],
      "rating": null,
      "release_date": "2023-07-24T12:29:00Z",
      "review_count": 0,
      "short_description": "Alexandrite is an alternative web UI for Lemmy with a focus on app-quality easy browsing.",
      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/alexandrite/about/",
      "url_name": "alexandrite"
    },
    {
      "alerts": [
        {
          "description": "On 2023-02-04, the project was archived on GitHub and a developer updated the README file to notify users the project is no longer being maintained.",
          "severity": "warning",
          "type": "Discontinued"
        }
      ],
      "alternatives_count": 22,
      "company": {
        "country_code": "PL",
        "name": "Filip Krawczyk",
        "number_of_apps": 1,
        "region": "Europe",
        "url": null,
        "url_name": "filip-krawczyk"
      },
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/lemmur_188351.png",
      "id": "a5c13a98-5cf7-4039-803b-abf7e2e775a0",
      "is_discontinued": true,
      "license": {
        "family": "gpl",
        "long_name": "GNU General Public License v2.0",
        "more_info_url": "https://choosealicense.com/licenses/gpl-2.0/",
        "spdx_id": "GPL-2.0",
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          "url_name": "android-tablet"
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      ],
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      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/boost-for-lemmy/about/",
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        {
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      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/liftoff-for-lemmy/about/",
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    },
    {
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        "url_name": "agpl-3.0"
      },
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      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/summit-for-lemmy/about/",
      "url_name": "summit-for-lemmy"
    },
    {
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        "more_info_url": "https://choosealicense.com/licenses/gpl-3.0/",
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        "url_name": "gpl-3.0"
      },
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      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/sync-for-lemmy_238586.png",
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      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/sync-for-lemmy/about/",
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    },
    {
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        "url_name": "david-bure-"
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        "spdx_id": "GPL-3.0",
        "url_name": "gpl-3.0"
      },
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        }
      ],
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      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/mlem/about/",
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    },
    {
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        "url_name": "agpl-3.0"
      },
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        },
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          "url_name": "f-droid"
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      ],
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      "short_description": "A web, Android, and iOS client for the federated, activity pub based, Lemmy social media platform.",
      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/blorp/about/",
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    },
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        "url": null,
        "url_name": "athlon007"
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        "more_info_url": "https://choosealicense.com/licenses/gpl-3.0/",
        "spdx_id": "GPL-3.0",
        "url_name": "gpl-3.0"
      },
      "license_cost": "Free",
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      ],
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      "review_count": 0,
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      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/leomard/about/",
      "url_name": "leomard"
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        "region": null,
        "url": null,
        "url_name": "kuro"
      },
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/connect-for-lemmy_245767.png",
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      "license_cost": "Free",
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      "likes": 1,
      "name": "Connect for Lemmy",
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        {
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          "platform_type": "mobile",
          "url_name": "android"
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      ],
      "rating": null,
      "release_date": "2023-07-04T00:00:00Z",
      "review_count": 0,
      "short_description": "Connect for Lemmy is a native application for browsing the social platform Lemmy and the Fediverse.",
      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/connect-for-lemmy/about/",
      "url_name": "connect-for-lemmy"
    },
    {
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      "company": {
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        "name": "Dana Buehre",
        "number_of_apps": 1,
        "region": null,
        "url": null,
        "url_name": "dana-buehre"
      },
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/arctic-for-lemmy_245663.jpg",
      "id": "6dcc224c-f032-4103-a98a-4cd23ea6148e",
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      "license_cost": "Free",
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      "likes": 1,
      "name": "Arctic For Lemmy",
      "platforms": [
        {
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          "platform_type": "mobile",
          "url_name": "iphone"
        },
        {
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          "platform_type": "tablet",
          "url_name": "ipad"
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      ],
      "rating": null,
      "release_date": "2025-02-11T00:00:00Z",
      "review_count": 0,
      "short_description": "Arctic For Lemmy is a free and native iOS client for Lemmy. In the spirit of the Fediverse, Arctic is completely free and private. No data of any kind will be collected from your device, and no pesky advertisements, Ever.",
      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/arctic-for-lemmy/about/",
      "url_name": "arctic-for-lemmy"
    },
    {
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        {
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        }
      ],
      "alternatives_count": 21,
      "company": {
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        "name": "freshfieldreds",
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        "region": null,
        "url": null,
        "url_name": "freshfieldreds"
      },
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/muffed_223701.jpg",
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        "spdx_id": "AGPL-3.0",
        "url_name": "agpl-3.0"
      },
      "license_cost": "Free",
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      "platforms": [
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          "platform_type": "mobile",
          "url_name": "android"
        },
        {
          "name": "F-Droid",
          "platform_type": "unknown",
          "url_name": "f-droid"
        }
      ],
      "rating": null,
      "release_date": "2023-10-11T00:00:00Z",
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      "short_description": "A Lemmy client written in Flutter.",
      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/muffed/about/",
      "url_name": "muffed"
    },
    {
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      "company": {
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        "name": "Anton Kuzmin",
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        "region": null,
        "url": null,
        "url_name": "anton-kuzmin"
      },
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/remmel_218618.png",
      "id": "2a23e597-eab7-464e-95c3-8e01bbed385b",
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      "license": {
        "family": "mit-style",
        "long_name": "MIT License",
        "more_info_url": "https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/",
        "spdx_id": "MIT",
        "url_name": "mit"
      },
      "license_cost": "Free",
      "license_model": "Open Source",
      "likes": 1,
      "name": "Remmel",
      "platforms": [
        {
          "name": "iPhone",
          "platform_type": "mobile",
          "url_name": "iphone"
        }
      ],
      "rating": null,
      "release_date": "2023-06-19T00:00:00Z",
      "review_count": 0,
      "short_description": "A Lemmy client for iOS.",
      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/remmel/about/",
      "url_name": "remmel"
    },
    {
      "alerts": [],
      "alternatives_count": 24,
      "company": {
        "country_code": null,
        "name": "Daniel Ciao",
        "number_of_apps": 1,
        "region": null,
        "url": null,
        "url_name": "daniel-ciao"
      },
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/lemmotif-for-lemmy_219165.png",
      "id": "cc43aff6-949d-4e1f-aa26-9fec5deb27b1",
      "is_discontinued": false,
      "license": null,
      "license_cost": "Free",
      "license_model": "Proprietary",
      "likes": 1,
      "name": "Lemmotif for Lemmy",
      "platforms": [
        {
          "name": "Android",
          "platform_type": "mobile",
          "url_name": "android"
        }
      ],
      "rating": null,
      "release_date": "2023-07-04T08:28:00Z",
      "review_count": 0,
      "short_description": "Lemmotif is a simple app for Lemmy, a federated link aggregator platform. Participate in discussion forums across all Lemmy & compatible federated servers.",
      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/lemmotif-for-lemmy/about/",
      "url_name": "lemmotif-for-lemmy"
    }
  ],
  "source_url": "https://alternativeto.net/browse/all/?tag=lemmy-client&sort=likes",
  "title": "Lemmy Clients"
}
```

## API reference-derived contract

The following capability contract is generated from the same normalized Alexandria API reference exposed in the API spec.

### Browse software

- Capability: `apps/browse_software`
- Description: Browse the whole catalog (/browse/all/ as RSC flight) filtered by tag (category or subcategory slug), platform, license and feature, sorted by the site's default, likes or views. One page of 25 apps with paging.
- Instructions: Explore a category or feature across the catalog rather than alternatives to one product.
- Cost: 5 credits per call
- Capability file: [Browse software](https://firecrawl.dev/alexandria/agents/providers/alternativeto-net/apps/browse_software)

Accepted options:
- `feature` (string): Feature filter url_name (e.g. note-taking, privacy-focused, ad-free). Pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9._-]+$. Example: `<feature>`
- `license` (string): License filter url_name (e.g. free, opensource, gpl-3.0, mit). Pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9._-]+$. Example: `<license>`
- `page` (number): 1-based page; pass the returned next_cursor to continue. Example: `1`
- `platform` (string): Platform filter url_name from a previous result's platforms[].url_name or filters.platforms (e.g. android, windows, mac, linux, online, self-hosted). Pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9._-]+$. Example: `<platform>`
- `sort` (string): Site sort options beyond the default ranking. Example: `likes`
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          "url_name": "android"
        },
        {
          "name": "F-Droid",
          "platform_type": "unknown",
          "url_name": "f-droid"
        }
      ],
      "rating": null,
      "release_date": "2023-07-04T00:00:00Z",
      "review_count": 1,
      "short_description": "Summit for Lemmy enables you to explore hundreds of Lemmy communities with ease.",
      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/summit-for-lemmy/about/",
      "url_name": "summit-for-lemmy"
    },
    {
      "alerts": [],
      "alternatives_count": 24,
      "company": {
        "country_code": null,
        "name": "M.D. Walters",
        "number_of_apps": 1,
        "region": null,
        "url": null,
        "url_name": "m-d-walters"
      },
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/lemonade-for-lemmy_219062.png",
      "id": "263e7f84-7e55-4cac-a068-d8eb1b8af29b",
      "is_discontinued": false,
      "license": {
        "family": "gpl",
        "long_name": "GNU General Public License v3.0",
        "more_info_url": "https://choosealicense.com/licenses/gpl-3.0/",
        "spdx_id": "GPL-3.0",
        "url_name": "gpl-3.0"
      },
      "license_cost": "Free",
      "license_model": "Open Source",
      "likes": 4,
      "name": "Lemonade for Lemmy",
      "platforms": [
        {
          "name": "Linux",
          "platform_type": "desktop",
          "url_name": "linux"
        },
        {
          "name": "Flathub",
          "platform_type": "unknown",
          "url_name": "flathub"
        },
        {
          "name": "Flatpak",
          "platform_type": "unknown",
          "url_name": "flatpak"
        }
      ],
      "rating": null,
      "release_date": "2023-06-30T09:52:00Z",
      "review_count": 0,
      "short_description": "Lemonade is a sleek and modern Lemmy client that is designed to provide a seamless browsing experience for Lemmy users. Built with the latest technology, Lemonade utilizes the power of libadwaita and GTK 4 to deliver a beautiful and intuitive user interface that is both easy to...",
      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/lemonade-for-lemmy/about/",
      "url_name": "lemonade-for-lemmy"
    },
    {
      "alerts": [
        {
          "description": "The latest update is from November 2023.",
          "severity": "warning",
          "type": "Discontinued"
        }
      ],
      "alternatives_count": 22,
      "company": {
        "country_code": null,
        "name": "Gavin Kasdorf",
        "number_of_apps": 1,
        "region": null,
        "url": null,
        "url_name": "gavin-kasdorf"
      },
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/memmy_232385.png",
      "id": "ea37e3d5-4882-4c2e-a3e6-65c2abc728e0",
      "is_discontinued": true,
      "license": {
        "family": "agpl",
        "long_name": "GNU Affero General Public License v3.0",
        "more_info_url": "https://choosealicense.com/licenses/agpl-3.0/",
        "spdx_id": "AGPL-3.0",
        "url_name": "agpl-3.0"
      },
      "license_cost": "Free",
      "license_model": "Open Source",
      "likes": 3,
      "name": "Memmy",
      "platforms": [
        {
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          "url_name": "iphone"
        }
      ],
      "rating": null,
      "release_date": "2023-06-19T00:00:00Z",
      "review_count": 1,
      "short_description": "An Apollo-inspired iOS and Android client for using Lemmy, a federated link aggregator. Heavly influenced and inspired by Apollo for Reddit. Thanks Christian.",
      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/memmy/about/",
      "url_name": "memmy"
    },
    {
      "alerts": [],
      "alternatives_count": 23,
      "company": {
        "country_code": null,
        "name": "laurencedawson",
        "number_of_apps": 1,
        "region": null,
        "url": null,
        "url_name": "laurencedawson"
      },
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/sync-for-lemmy_238586.png",
      "id": "0f065958-3f1e-42f8-aaca-4200501ecac8",
      "is_discontinued": false,
      "license": null,
      "license_cost": "Freemium",
      "license_model": "Proprietary",
      "likes": 2,
      "name": "Sync for Lemmy",
      "platforms": [
        {
          "name": "Android",
          "platform_type": "mobile",
          "url_name": "android"
        }
      ],
      "rating": null,
      "release_date": "2024-09-21T00:00:00Z",
      "review_count": 0,
      "short_description": "A beautiful Lemmy app for browsing Lemmy on the go!.",
      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/sync-for-lemmy/about/",
      "url_name": "sync-for-lemmy"
    },
    {
      "alerts": [],
      "alternatives_count": 22,
      "company": {
        "country_code": "US",
        "name": "David Bureš",
        "number_of_apps": 1,
        "region": "Americas",
        "url": null,
        "url_name": "david-bure-"
      },
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/mlem_232386.webp",
      "id": "91427cf7-2cb9-44e0-9ed6-63638df2a009",
      "is_discontinued": false,
      "license": {
        "family": "gpl",
        "long_name": "GNU General Public License v3.0",
        "more_info_url": "https://choosealicense.com/licenses/gpl-3.0/",
        "spdx_id": "GPL-3.0",
        "url_name": "gpl-3.0"
      },
      "license_cost": "Free",
      "license_model": "Open Source",
      "likes": 2,
      "name": "Mlem",
      "platforms": [
        {
          "name": "iPhone",
          "platform_type": "mobile",
          "url_name": "iphone"
        }
      ],
      "rating": null,
      "release_date": "2023-06-19T00:00:00Z",
      "review_count": 1,
      "short_description": "Mlem is a client for Lemmy, a Reddit-esque, open-source link aggregator. With Mlem, you can effortlessly participate in the conversation across all Lemmy servers.",
      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/mlem/about/",
      "url_name": "mlem"
    },
    {
      "alerts": [],
      "alternatives_count": 21,
      "company": {
        "country_code": null,
        "name": "Unknown",
        "number_of_apps": 27302,
        "region": null,
        "url": null,
        "url_name": "unknown"
      },
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/blorp_246960.png",
      "id": "e63c960d-636e-4212-820e-dd9c3c0898a7",
      "is_discontinued": false,
      "license": {
        "family": "agpl",
        "long_name": "GNU Affero General Public License v3.0",
        "more_info_url": "https://choosealicense.com/licenses/agpl-3.0/",
        "spdx_id": "AGPL-3.0",
        "url_name": "agpl-3.0"
      },
      "license_cost": "Free",
      "license_model": "Open Source",
      "likes": 2,
      "name": "Blorp",
      "platforms": [
        {
          "name": "Mac",
          "platform_type": "desktop",
          "url_name": "mac"
        },
        {
          "name": "Online",
          "platform_type": "web",
          "url_name": "online"
        },
        {
          "name": "F-Droid",
          "platform_type": "unknown",
          "url_name": "f-droid"
        }
      ],
      "rating": null,
      "release_date": "2025-03-04T00:00:00Z",
      "review_count": 0,
      "short_description": "A web, Android, and iOS client for the federated, activity pub based, Lemmy social media platform.",
      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/blorp/about/",
      "url_name": "blorp"
    },
    {
      "alerts": [],
      "alternatives_count": 5,
      "company": {
        "country_code": null,
        "name": "Athlon007",
        "number_of_apps": 1,
        "region": null,
        "url": null,
        "url_name": "athlon007"
      },
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/leomard_259535.png",
      "id": "82193b4b-3229-4306-aeb9-09691535d0e8",
      "is_discontinued": false,
      "license": {
        "family": "gpl",
        "long_name": "GNU General Public License v3.0",
        "more_info_url": "https://choosealicense.com/licenses/gpl-3.0/",
        "spdx_id": "GPL-3.0",
        "url_name": "gpl-3.0"
      },
      "license_cost": "Free",
      "license_model": "Open Source",
      "likes": 1,
      "name": "Leomard",
      "platforms": [
        {
          "name": "Mac",
          "platform_type": "desktop",
          "url_name": "mac"
        }
      ],
      "rating": null,
      "release_date": "2025-09-15T00:00:00Z",
      "review_count": 0,
      "short_description": "Leomard is a Lemmy client for macOS, written in Swift using SwiftUI. Leomard allows you to browse Lemmy instances, view posts and comments, and create new posts and comments, read replies, and more.",
      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/leomard/about/",
      "url_name": "leomard"
    },
    {
      "alerts": [],
      "alternatives_count": 22,
      "company": {
        "country_code": null,
        "name": "Kuro",
        "number_of_apps": 2,
        "region": null,
        "url": null,
        "url_name": "kuro"
      },
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/connect-for-lemmy_245767.png",
      "id": "4681b86d-11c5-4ba5-86d1-2bcbb78aa51c",
      "is_discontinued": false,
      "license": null,
      "license_cost": "Free",
      "license_model": "Proprietary",
      "likes": 1,
      "name": "Connect for Lemmy",
      "platforms": [
        {
          "name": "Android",
          "platform_type": "mobile",
          "url_name": "android"
        }
      ],
      "rating": null,
      "release_date": "2023-07-04T00:00:00Z",
      "review_count": 0,
      "short_description": "Connect for Lemmy is a native application for browsing the social platform Lemmy and the Fediverse.",
      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/connect-for-lemmy/about/",
      "url_name": "connect-for-lemmy"
    },
    {
      "alerts": [],
      "alternatives_count": 24,
      "company": {
        "country_code": null,
        "name": "Dana Buehre",
        "number_of_apps": 1,
        "region": null,
        "url": null,
        "url_name": "dana-buehre"
      },
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/arctic-for-lemmy_245663.jpg",
      "id": "6dcc224c-f032-4103-a98a-4cd23ea6148e",
      "is_discontinued": false,
      "license": null,
      "license_cost": "Free",
      "license_model": "Proprietary",
      "likes": 1,
      "name": "Arctic For Lemmy",
      "platforms": [
        {
          "name": "iPhone",
          "platform_type": "mobile",
          "url_name": "iphone"
        },
        {
          "name": "iPad",
          "platform_type": "tablet",
          "url_name": "ipad"
        }
      ],
      "rating": null,
      "release_date": "2025-02-11T00:00:00Z",
      "review_count": 0,
      "short_description": "Arctic For Lemmy is a free and native iOS client for Lemmy. In the spirit of the Fediverse, Arctic is completely free and private. No data of any kind will be collected from your device, and no pesky advertisements, Ever.",
      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/arctic-for-lemmy/about/",
      "url_name": "arctic-for-lemmy"
    },
    {
      "alerts": [
        {
          "description": "The latest version is from December 2023, and the GitHub repository has been archived in April 2024. The app can still be downloaded from F-Droid (IzzyOnDroid) though.",
          "severity": "warning",
          "type": "Discontinued"
        }
      ],
      "alternatives_count": 21,
      "company": {
        "country_code": null,
        "name": "freshfieldreds",
        "number_of_apps": 1,
        "region": null,
        "url": null,
        "url_name": "freshfieldreds"
      },
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/muffed_223701.jpg",
      "id": "d156a4ec-3373-4a5d-89f3-87f6ece65463",
      "is_discontinued": true,
      "license": {
        "family": "agpl",
        "long_name": "GNU Affero General Public License v3.0",
        "more_info_url": "https://choosealicense.com/licenses/agpl-3.0/",
        "spdx_id": "AGPL-3.0",
        "url_name": "agpl-3.0"
      },
      "license_cost": "Free",
      "license_model": "Open Source",
      "likes": 1,
      "name": "muffed",
      "platforms": [
        {
          "name": "Android",
          "platform_type": "mobile",
          "url_name": "android"
        },
        {
          "name": "F-Droid",
          "platform_type": "unknown",
          "url_name": "f-droid"
        }
      ],
      "rating": null,
      "release_date": "2023-10-11T00:00:00Z",
      "review_count": 0,
      "short_description": "A Lemmy client written in Flutter.",
      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/muffed/about/",
      "url_name": "muffed"
    },
    {
      "alerts": [],
      "alternatives_count": 24,
      "company": {
        "country_code": null,
        "name": "Anton Kuzmin",
        "number_of_apps": 1,
        "region": null,
        "url": null,
        "url_name": "anton-kuzmin"
      },
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/remmel_218618.png",
      "id": "2a23e597-eab7-464e-95c3-8e01bbed385b",
      "is_discontinued": false,
      "license": {
        "family": "mit-style",
        "long_name": "MIT License",
        "more_info_url": "https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/",
        "spdx_id": "MIT",
        "url_name": "mit"
      },
      "license_cost": "Free",
      "license_model": "Open Source",
      "likes": 1,
      "name": "Remmel",
      "platforms": [
        {
          "name": "iPhone",
          "platform_type": "mobile",
          "url_name": "iphone"
        }
      ],
      "rating": null,
      "release_date": "2023-06-19T00:00:00Z",
      "review_count": 0,
      "short_description": "A Lemmy client for iOS.",
      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/remmel/about/",
      "url_name": "remmel"
    },
    {
      "alerts": [],
      "alternatives_count": 24,
      "company": {
        "country_code": null,
        "name": "Daniel Ciao",
        "number_of_apps": 1,
        "region": null,
        "url": null,
        "url_name": "daniel-ciao"
      },
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/lemmotif-for-lemmy_219165.png",
      "id": "cc43aff6-949d-4e1f-aa26-9fec5deb27b1",
      "is_discontinued": false,
      "license": null,
      "license_cost": "Free",
      "license_model": "Proprietary",
      "likes": 1,
      "name": "Lemmotif for Lemmy",
      "platforms": [
        {
          "name": "Android",
          "platform_type": "mobile",
          "url_name": "android"
        }
      ],
      "rating": null,
      "release_date": "2023-07-04T08:28:00Z",
      "review_count": 0,
      "short_description": "Lemmotif is a simple app for Lemmy, a federated link aggregator platform. Participate in discussion forums across all Lemmy & compatible federated servers.",
      "tag_line": null,
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/lemmotif-for-lemmy/about/",
      "url_name": "lemmotif-for-lemmy"
    }
  ],
  "source_url": "https://alternativeto.net/browse/all/?tag=lemmy-client&sort=likes",
  "title": "Lemmy Clients"
}
```

### Get alternatives

- Capability: `apps/get_alternatives`
- Description: Alternatives to one app from /software/{url_name}/ (RSC flight): the main app, one page of 12 alternatives with their top opinions, the site's filter options with counts, and paging. Filters by platform, license, feature; sort by likes or views.
- Instructions: When the user asks for alternatives to a known product; chain from search_software's url_name.
- Cost: 5 credits per call
- Capability file: [Get alternatives](https://firecrawl.dev/alexandria/agents/providers/alternativeto-net/apps/get_alternatives)

Accepted options:
- `feature` (string): Feature filter url_name (e.g. note-taking, privacy-focused, ad-free). Pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9._-]+$. Example: `<feature>`
- `license` (string): License filter url_name (e.g. free, opensource, gpl-3.0, mit). Pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9._-]+$. Example: `<license>`
- `page` (number): 1-based page; pass the returned next_cursor to continue. Example: `1`
- `platform` (string): Platform filter url_name from a previous result's platforms[].url_name or filters.platforms (e.g. android, windows, mac, linux, online, self-hosted). Pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9._-]+$. Example: `<platform>`
- `sort` (string): Site sort options beyond the default ranking. Example: `likes`
- `url_name` (string, required): App slug (e.g. reddit) or a pasted https://alternativeto.net/software/{slug}/ URL. Example: `<url_name>`

Response schema example:
```json
{
  "alternatives": [
    {
      "alerts": [],
      "alternative_id": "1d9840bb-220b-46ce-aaeb-3df7207d6c76",
      "alternatives_count": 86,
      "company": null,
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/lemmy_244210.svg",
      "id": "a35cabdd-9a0e-458d-8a99-b81174c5d856",
      "is_discontinued": false,
      "license": {
        "family": "agpl",
        "long_name": "GNU Affero General Public License v3.0",
        "more_info_url": "https://choosealicense.com/licenses/agpl-3.0/",
        "spdx_id": "AGPL-3.0",
        "url_name": "agpl-3.0"
      },
      "license_cost": "Free",
      "license_model": "Open Source",
      "likes": 214,
      "name": "Lemmy",
      "opinion_count": 23,
      "platforms": [
        {
          "name": "Online",
          "platform_type": "web",
          "url_name": "online"
        },
        {
          "name": "Android",
          "platform_type": "mobile",
          "url_name": "android"
        },
        {
          "name": "iPhone",
          "platform_type": "mobile",
          "url_name": "iphone"
        },
        {
          "name": "Self-Hosted",
          "platform_type": "web",
          "url_name": "self-hosted"
        }
      ],
      "rating": null,
      "release_date": null,
      "review_count": 0,
      "short_description": "Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News: you subscribe to forums you're interested in, post links and discussions, then vote, and comment on them. Behind the scenes, it is very different; anyone can easily run a server, and all these servers are...",
      "tag_line": null,
      "top_opinions": [
        {
          "added_date": "2025-01-19T19:11:00Z",
          "agree": 2,
          "disagree": 0,
          "id": "1196548",
          "mood": "Positive",
          "text": "Has a good, fast and smooth interface.\nAlso its Opensource and federated."
        },
        {
          "added_date": "2026-07-30T13:51:00Z",
          "agree": 0,
          "disagree": 0,
          "id": "1240537",
          "mood": "Positive",
          "text": "It's basically Reddit, but federated. Feels quite natural to use."
        },
        {
          "added_date": "2025-05-21T07:38:00Z",
          "agree": 2,
          "disagree": 0,
          "id": "1207767",
          "mood": "Positive",
          "text": "No ads, no fake comments/posts, and no hate or rage baiting content"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/lemmy/about/",
      "url_name": "lemmy"
    },
    {
      "alerts": [],
      "alternative_id": "0cc4962e-e9ca-4cca-a059-f75b60e8e2b0",
      "alternatives_count": 100,
      "company": null,
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/raddle_118728.png",
      "id": "a71ab042-f138-47bd-a414-dc6e8e8234c6",
      "is_discontinued": false,
      "license": null,
      "license_cost": "Free",
      "license_model": "Open Source",
      "likes": 24,
      "name": "Raddle",
      "opinion_count": 2,
      "platforms": [
        {
          "name": "Online",
          "platform_type": "web",
          "url_name": "online"
        }
      ],
      "rating": null,
      "release_date": null,
      "review_count": 0,
      "short_description": "Unsatisfied with the few link sharing communities that were available and their proprietary, untransparent and non-secure nature, ziq made the original raddle.me (then known as raddit.me) with Wordpress, but it had a lot of limitations.",
      "tag_line": null,
      "top_opinions": [
        {
          "added_date": "2020-09-10T13:11:00Z",
          "agree": 2,
          "disagree": 2,
          "id": "991931",
          "mood": "Positive",
          "text": "its pretty good and i must say i really enjoyed it! this website reaaaly deserves more users!"
        },
        {
          "added_date": "2024-10-03T19:30:00Z",
          "agree": 0,
          "disagree": 0,
          "id": "1188430",
          "mood": "Neutral",
          "text": "I think raddle is good for link sharing, but reddit is more user friendly. I am neutral.\nRaddle:MEWPRODUCTIONS"
        }
      ],
      "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/raddle/about/",
      "url_name": "raddle"
    },
    {
      "alerts": [],
      "alternative_id": "3f2db6e1-1373-e311-9822-002590a05f5f",
      "alternatives_count": 72,
      "company": null,
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/hacker-news_37167.png",
      "id": "3d9a419c-1373-e311-9822-002590a05f5f",
      "is_discontinued": false,
      "license": null,
      "license_cost": "Free",
      "license_model": "Proprietary",
      "likes": 140,
      "name": "Hacker News",
      "opinion_count": 6,
      "platforms": [
        {
          "name": "Online",
          "platform_type": "web",
          "url_name": "online"
        }
      ],
      "rating": null,
      "release_date": null,
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      {
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      {
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        "children": [],
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        "children": [],
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      {
        "children": [],
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        "url_name": "ipad"
      },
      {
        "children": [],
        "count": 18,
        "name": "Android Tablet",
        "url_name": "android-tablet"
      },
      {
        "children": [],
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      },
      {
        "children": [],
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        "children": [],
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        "url_name": "linux"
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      {
        "children": [],
        "count": 6,
        "name": "Windows Phone",
        "url_name": "windows-phone"
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        "children": [],
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        "url_name": "mac"
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      {
        "children": [],
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        "name": "Google Chrome",
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        "url_name": "firefox"
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      {
        "children": [],
        "count": 3,
        "name": "F-Droid",
        "url_name": "f-droid"
      },
      {
        "children": [],
        "count": 3,
        "name": "OpenAPK",
        "url_name": "openapk"
      },
      {
        "children": [],
        "count": 3,
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      {
        "children": [],
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        "url_name": "reddit"
      },
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        "children": [],
        "count": 2,
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        "url_name": "apple-watch"
      },
      {
        "children": [],
        "count": 2,
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        "url_name": "microsoft-edge"
      },
      {
        "children": [],
        "count": 2,
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      },
      {
        "children": [],
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      },
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        "children": [],
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      },
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      {
        "children": [],
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      },
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    "license": null,
    "platform": null,
    "sort": null
  },
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  "main_item": {
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      "url": "https://www.reddit.com",
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    },
    "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/reddit_244379.svg",
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      {
        "name": "Online",
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        "url_name": "online"
      },
      {
        "name": "Android",
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        "url_name": "android"
      },
      {
        "name": "iPhone",
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        "url_name": "iphone"
      },
      {
        "name": "Android Tablet",
        "platform_type": "tablet",
        "url_name": "android-tablet"
      },
      {
        "name": "iPad",
        "platform_type": "tablet",
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        "name": "Tor",
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    "tag_line": "A social news website where content shared by users is voted on, organized into 'subreddits,' and can appear on the front page amid diverse topics.",
    "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/reddit/about/",
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  },
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  "source_url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/reddit/"
}
```

### Get software

- Capability: `apps/get_software`
- Description: Full public record of one app from its about page (/software/{url_name}/about/ as RSC flight): description, tag line, pricing, license, platforms, features, categories, external links, publisher, GitHub and App Store metadata the site mirrors, star rating and the reviews embedded in the page's JSON-LD.
- Instructions: After search_software or get_alternatives returned a url_name, or when the user pastes an alternativeto.net/software/... URL.
- Cost: 5 credits per call
- Capability file: [Get software](https://firecrawl.dev/alexandria/agents/providers/alternativeto-net/apps/get_software)

Accepted options:
- `url_name` (string, required): App slug (e.g. lemmy, adobe-photoshop) or a pasted https://alternativeto.net/software/{slug}/ URL. Example: `<url_name>`

Response schema example:
```json
{
  "added_date": "2019-04-18T06:02:00Z",
  "alerts": [],
  "alternatives_count": 86,
  "app_store": null,
  "app_types": [
    {
      "name": "Lemmy Client",
      "url_name": "lemmy-client"
    },
    {
      "name": "Social News",
      "url_name": "social-news"
    },
    {
      "name": "Social Network",
      "url_name": "social-network"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    {
      "name": "Social & Communications",
      "url_name": "social"
    },
    {
      "name": "News & Books",
      "url_name": "books--news"
    },
    {
      "name": "Security & Privacy",
      "url_name": "security"
    }
  ],
  "comment_summary": "Lemmy is praised for its decentralized, federated structure, and open-source nature, offering a fast, lightweight interface similar to Reddit. Users appreciate the potential to create communities and enjoy fewer trolls, promoting better privacy. However, concerns exist over its lack of a privacy policy, censorship aspects, and inadequate documentation. While some find it a great Reddit alternative, others criticize its user base and lack of certain Reddit features.",
  "company": {
    "country_code": "ZZ",
    "name": "Dessalines",
    "number_of_apps": 6,
    "region": "Global",
    "url": "https://github.com/dessalines",
    "url_name": "dessalines"
  },
  "creator": "Dessalines",
  "creator_url": "https://github.com/LemmyNet",
  "description": "Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News: you subscribe to forums you're interested in, post links and discussions, then vote, and comment on them. Behind the scenes, it is very different; anyone can easily run a server, and all these servers are federated (think email), and connected to the same universe, called the Fediverse.\n\nFor a link aggregator, this means a user registered on one server can subscribe to forums on any other server, and can have discussions with users registered elsewhere.\n\nThe overall goal is to create an easily self-hostable, decentralized alternative to Reddit and other link aggregators, outside of their corporate control and meddling.\n\nEach Lemmy server can set its own moderation policy; appointing site-wide admins, and community moderators to keep out the trolls, and foster a healthy, non-toxic environment where all can feel comfortable contributing.\n\n# Features: \n- Open source, AGPL License.\n- Self hostable, easy to deploy.\n - Comes with Docker and Ansible.\n- Clean, mobile-friendly interface.\n- Only username and password are required to sign up!\n- User avatar support.\n- Live-updating Comment threads.\n- Full vote scores (+/-) like old Reddit.\n- Themes, including light, dark, and solarized.\n- Emojis with autocomplete support. Start typing :\n- User tagging using @, Community tagging using !.\n- Integrated image uploading in both posts and comments.\n- Flexible posts can consist of a title and a combination of self text, URL, or nothing.\n- Notifications, on comment replies and when you're tagged.\n - Notifications can be sent via email.\n- Private messaging support.\n- i18n / internationalization support.\n- RSS / Atom feeds for All, Subscribed, Inbox, User, and Community.\n- Cross-posting support.\n- Automatic related post search when creating new posts. Great for question / answer communities and reposts.\n- Moderation abilities.\n - Public Moderation Logs.\n - Can sticky posts to the top of communities.\n - Both site admins, and community moderators, who can appoint other moderators.\n - Can lock, remove, and restore posts and comments.\n - Can ban and unban users from communities and the site.\n - Can transfer site and communities to others.\nCan fully erase your data, replacing all posts and comments.\nNSFW post / community support.\n- High performance.\n - Server is written in rust.\n - Front end is ~80kB gzipped.\n - Supports arm64 / Raspberry Pi.",
  "external_links": [
    {
      "name": "Official Website",
      "type": "Official",
      "url": "https://join-lemmy.org/"
    },
    {
      "name": "GitHub",
      "type": "Source",
      "url": "https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy"
    }
  ],
  "features": [
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      "likes": 45,
      "name": "Federation",
      "url_name": "federation"
    },
    {
      "category": null,
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      "name": "Community-based",
      "url_name": "community-based"
    },
    {
      "category": null,
      "likes": 36,
      "name": "Fediverse",
      "url_name": "fediverse"
    },
    {
      "category": "Various",
      "likes": 22,
      "name": "Ad-free",
      "url_name": "ad-free"
    },
    {
      "category": null,
      "likes": 17,
      "name": "Threaded Conversations",
      "url_name": "threaded-conversations"
    },
    {
      "category": null,
      "likes": 16,
      "name": "Mobile friendly",
      "url_name": "mobile-friendly"
    },
    {
      "category": "Security / Privacy",
      "likes": 14,
      "name": "No Tracking",
      "url_name": "no-tracking"
    },
    {
      "category": "Social / Communications",
      "likes": 13,
      "name": "Support for ActivityPub",
      "url_name": "activitypub-support"
    },
    {
      "category": "Various",
      "likes": 11,
      "name": "Dark Mode",
      "url_name": "night-mode"
    },
    {
      "category": "Various",
      "likes": 8,
      "name": "Multiple Account support",
      "url_name": "multiple-account-support"
    },
    {
      "category": "Various",
      "likes": 5,
      "name": "Support for MarkDown",
      "url_name": "markdown-support"
    },
    {
      "category": "Security / Privacy",
      "likes": 3,
      "name": "No registration required",
      "url_name": "no-registration"
    },
    {
      "category": "Social / Communications",
      "likes": 2,
      "name": "Support for @mentions",
      "url_name": "mentions"
    },
    {
      "category": "Security / Privacy",
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    }
  ],
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    "open_issues": 126,
    "pushed_at": "2026-10-01T13:14:11Z",
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  },
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  "id": "a35cabdd-9a0e-458d-8a99-b81174c5d856",
  "is_discontinued": false,
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    "family": "agpl",
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    "more_info_url": "https://choosealicense.com/licenses/agpl-3.0/",
    "spdx_id": "AGPL-3.0",
    "url_name": "agpl-3.0"
  },
  "license_cost": "Free",
  "license_model": "Open Source",
  "likes": 214,
  "modified_date": "2025-01-14T10:36:00Z",
  "name": "Lemmy",
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  "platforms": [
    {
      "name": "Online",
      "platform_type": "web",
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    },
    {
      "name": "Android",
      "platform_type": "mobile",
      "url_name": "android"
    },
    {
      "name": "iPhone",
      "platform_type": "mobile",
      "url_name": "iphone"
    },
    {
      "name": "Self-Hosted",
      "platform_type": "web",
      "url_name": "self-hosted"
    }
  ],
  "pricing": {
    "model": "None",
    "one_time_max_price": 0,
    "one_time_min_price": 0,
    "subscription_max_price": 0,
    "subscription_min_price": 0,
    "subscription_period": "Monthly"
  },
  "rating": {
    "count": 25,
    "value": 4
  },
  "release_date": "2019-04-18T00:00:00Z",
  "review_count": 17,
  "reviews": [
    {
      "body": "Lightweight interface that is fast like lightning as well as open source and federated. What is there not to love?",
      "date": "2020-09-07T07:07:10.250Z",
      "rating": 5
    },
    {
      "body": "Beware they still have no privacy policy despite being given plenty of links explaining how to create one & appear to be at least somewhat hostile to \"right-wingers\" which is precisely why a lot of people have left reddit. An alternative with the same issues as the original serves zero purpose.\r\n\r\n_[Edited by nathalto, August 16]_",
      "date": "2020-08-16T03:33:10.637Z",
      "rating": 2
    },
    {
      "body": "Yet Another Feddi\n\n\nLike any other flavor of Feddiverse “allows free speech” is their highest moral crime",
      "date": "2026-06-19T18:28:55.610Z",
      "rating": 1
    },
    {
      "body": "Probably the most well developed open source reddit alternative, with features added constantly.\n\nreading posts incrementally is still too hard unlike reddit with reddit enhancement suite (which has a few other nice features that lemmy does not have yet).",
      "date": "2024-09-18T16:07:37.393Z",
      "rating": 4
    },
    {
      "body": "Cool application but the user base sucks",
      "date": "2023-12-10T20:15:44.237Z",
      "rating": 2
    },
    {
      "body": "Lemmy is just as fun and interactive as Reddit, but with better privacy and less trolls.",
      "date": "2023-07-10T19:21:12.450Z",
      "rating": 5
    },
    {
      "body": "Federated alternative to Reddit",
      "date": "2023-06-10T21:47:03.117Z",
      "rating": 5
    }
  ],
  "supported_languages": [
    {
      "iso_code": "en",
      "name": "English"
    }
  ],
  "tag_line": "Federated link aggregator and Reddit alternative built with Rust",
  "tags": [
    {
      "name": "Social Network",
      "url_name": "social-network"
    },
    {
      "name": "Social News",
      "url_name": "social-news"
    },
    {
      "name": "News Reader",
      "url_name": "news-reader"
    },
    {
      "name": "Lemmy Client",
      "url_name": "lemmy-client"
    },
    {
      "name": "Link Aggregator",
      "url_name": "link-aggregator"
    },
    {
      "name": "Reddit",
      "url_name": "reddit"
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://alternativeto.net/software/lemmy/about/",
  "url_name": "lemmy"
}
```

### Search software

- Capability: `apps/search_software`
- Description: Search AlternativeTo's software catalog by name or keyword through the server-rendered search page (/browse/search/?q=, Algolia-backed, read as the Next.js RSC flight). Returns one page of 15 apps with slug, license, platforms, likes and alternatives count, plus the total.
- Instructions: Start here to resolve a product name to its url_name, then call get_software for details or get_alternatives for its alternatives.
- Cost: 5 credits per call
- Capability file: [Search software](https://firecrawl.dev/alexandria/agents/providers/alternativeto-net/apps/search_software)

Accepted options:
- `page` (number): 1-based page; pass the returned next_cursor to continue. Example: `1`
- `query` (string, required): Free text; the site also matches name aliases (e.g. PS for Photoshop). Example: `<query>`

Response schema example:
```json
{
  "observed_at_ms": 1791238392344,
  "paging": {
    "has_next": true,
    "page": 1,
    "page_size": 15,
    "total_count": 112,
    "total_pages": 8
  },
  "query": "photoshop",
  "results": [
    {
      "alerts": [],
      "alternatives_count": 258,
      "company": null,
      "icon_url": "https://img.alternativeto.net/icons/140/adobe-photoshop_244565.svg",
      "id": "41eec4ca-513b-4dd4-a31f-e43e0d8e5b45",
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