Anakin
One API. The whole web.
Anakin is a web scraping API and browser automation platform built for AI agents, LLM applications, and data teams that need structured, real-time access to the web.
Instead of stitching together proxies, headless browsers, and CAPTCHA-solving services, Anakin gives developers one API to search, scrape, crawl, browse, and act on any website, returning clean, structured data instead of raw HTML.
Core capabilities:
- URL Scraper: turn any single page or batch of URLs into clean Markdown, JSON, or HTML. Cached results cost zero credits.
- Crawl: a full web crawling API for pulling structured data across multiple pages, with pattern filtering to target exactly what you need.
- Map: discover every URL on a site via sitemap and link extraction, before you scrape a single page.
- Search API: AI-powered web search with citations, returned synchronously for real-time agent workflows.
- Agentic Search: a multi-stage automated research pipeline for deeper, multi-step questions that a single search can't answer.
- Browser API: a stealth, fingerprint-masked headless browser, controllable via Playwright or Puppeteer, for JavaScript-heavy sites and anti-bot bypass.
- Browser Sessions: encrypted, reusable authenticated sessions, so agents can stay logged in across multi-step scraping jobs without re-authenticating.
- Wire: extend automation to sites with no public API at all, turning them into managed, actionable endpoints for agents.
- AI Visibility: track how your brand or topic actually appears across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overview, built for teams optimizing for AI search (GEO) rather than just traditional SEO.
Every job supports geo-targeted proxies across 207 countries, webhook notifications instead of polling, and SDKs in Python and JavaScript/Node.js, plus native REST/cURL support. Pricing runs from a free tier through to enterprise.
Features
- Scrape any URL into Markdown, JSON, or HTML. Cached results cost zero credits.
- Crawl multiple pages across a site with pattern filtering.
- Discover every URL on a site via sitemap and link mapping before you scrape.
- Run AI-powered web search with citations, returned synchronously.
- Run multi-stage agentic research for deeper, multi-step questions.
- Control a stealth, fingerprint-masked browser via Playwright or Puppeteer.
- Save and reuse encrypted, authenticated browser sessions across jobs.
- Take action on sites with no public API through Wire.
- Track brand and topic visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overview.
- Route requests through geo-targeted proxies across 207 countries.
- Get webhook notifications instead of polling for job status.
Use Cases
For indie developers and solo builders
- Add live web data to a side project or SaaS tool without building and maintaining your own scraper, proxy pool, and CAPTCHA-solving stack.
- Use URL Scraper's free tier and zero-cost caching to prototype quickly before committing budget to a data pipeline.
- Automate a personal workflow (price tracking, content monitoring, lead lists) with Crawl or Map instead of writing custom scripts per site.
For startups building AI products
- Give an LLM-based agent real-time, structured access to the web instead of relying on stale training data, using Search API or Agentic Search.
- Use Browser Sessions to let an agent complete authenticated, multi-step tasks (logging in, filling forms, checking status pages) without re-authenticating on every run.
- Use Wire to let your product take real actions on platforms that were never built with a public API, extending what your agent can actually do for a user.
For growth and marketing teams
- Track how your brand or product actually shows up when people ask ChatGPT, Gemini, or Google AI Overview about your category, using AI Visibility.
- Monitor competitor visibility across AI engines the same way you'd track competitor keyword rankings in traditional SEO.
For data teams and enterprises
- Run large-scale, structured data collection across entire sites with Crawl and Map, instead of one-off scripts per source.
- Standardize web data ingestion across teams on one API and one credit system, rather than every team building its own scraping tooling.
- Use the stealth Browser API for JavaScript-heavy or anti-bot-protected sites that standard HTTP scraping can't reach.
Comments
Hey everyone, sharing what we've been building at Anakin. We didn't start as a scraping API company. Six years ago the team built pricing intelligence for large e-commerce and food delivery companies, tracking competitor pricing across the web. Back then that meant an engineer manually building and babysitting a scraper for every site, so it only made sense for companies big enough to afford it. Every hostile site (Cloudflare, Akamai, anti-bot) was its own fight, won one integration at a time. Anakin is that six years turned into one API anyone can call. URL Scraper and Crawl for extraction, Map for discovery, Browser API and Browser Sessions for sites that need real rendering and persistent logins, Search API and Agentic Search for sourced answers instead of raw pages, Wire for sites with no API at all that need an agent to act, not just read. AI Visibility tracks how a brand shows up across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overview. Self-healing is the part I'm proudest of, it's why this works at API pricing instead of enterprise-contract pricing. About a dollar per thousand pages now, versus a dedicated engineer per site before. Benchmark against five other scraping APIs, 20 real URLs, if you want proof over my word: github.com/Anakin-Inc/scraper-benchmark. Free tier covers 300 credits, no card. Want to hear where it breaks for you.
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Comments
Hey everyone, sharing what we've been building at Anakin. We didn't start as a scraping API company. Six years ago the team built pricing intelligence for large e-commerce and food delivery companies, tracking competitor pricing across the web. Back then that meant an engineer manually building and babysitting a scraper for every site, so it only made sense for companies big enough to afford it. Every hostile site (Cloudflare, Akamai, anti-bot) was its own fight, won one integration at a time. Anakin is that six years turned into one API anyone can call. URL Scraper and Crawl for extraction, Map for discovery, Browser API and Browser Sessions for sites that need real rendering and persistent logins, Search API and Agentic Search for sourced answers instead of raw pages, Wire for sites with no API at all that need an agent to act, not just read. AI Visibility tracks how a brand shows up across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overview. Self-healing is the part I'm proudest of, it's why this works at API pricing instead of enterprise-contract pricing. About a dollar per thousand pages now, versus a dedicated engineer per site before. Benchmark against five other scraping APIs, 20 real URLs, if you want proof over my word: github.com/Anakin-Inc/scraper-benchmark. Free tier covers 300 credits, no card. Want to hear where it breaks for you.
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