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Open-source web scraping API. Turn any website into clean markdown or structured JSON. Anti-detect browser, proxy auto-selection, self-hosted. One command: make up
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Building a reliable scraper usually means juggling headless browsers, rotating proxies, retry logic, and constant tweaks to dodge anti-bot defenses — work that piles up fast once a target site changes how it blocks traffic. Anakin packages that infrastructure behind a single API, positioning itself as 'One API. The whole web.' It routes requests through anti-detection and proxy infrastructure spanning 207 countries and territories, aimed at developers who need to pull data from a wide range of sites without maintaining that stack themselves.
Instead of returning results immediately, Anakin runs as an async API: you submit a request to create a scraping job, then poll a separate endpoint until the result is ready. That submit-then-check pattern shapes how it fits into a pipeline — it suits batch or background jobs more naturally than a call that expects an instant reply.
There's also an open-source core to Anakin, described in its own materials as 'the open-source web scraping API for AI,' available for teams that want to inspect or self-host it. What isn't clear from the available material is whether hosted-only infrastructure — the proxy network spanning 207 countries and territories, for instance — carries over to that self-hosted version or stays exclusive to the paid API; anyone considering self-hosting should check Anakin's own documentation before assuming feature parity.
Anakin lists the Starter tier as free with 300 credits, but it doesn't specify how many credits a single scrape request consumes, so the number of requests you get will vary by job. Running a typical request against your target site is the practical way to estimate usage before committing to a paid tier.
Anakin's own description mentions handling pages behind login walls, but the confirmed capabilities are anti-detection, multi-country proxy routing, and optional headless-browser rendering — none of which is described as a dedicated login-handling mechanism. Anyone planning to scrape authenticated content should verify this directly with Anakin before relying on it.
Anakin states that setting useBrowser: true enables headless-browser rendering for pages that need JavaScript to load their content, but it also notes this option is slower and more costly than a standard request. It's worth reserving useBrowser for pages that actually need JS rendering rather than switching it on by default for every job.
Anakin states that it holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 certification. The available material doesn't give a specific uptime percentage, SLA, or data-retention policy, so those details would need to be confirmed directly with Anakin.
