Gaffa

About Gaffa

Tired of wrestling with broken scraping pipelines and complex web automation setups? Gaffa is here to revolutionize how you access web data! We are a powerful API platform designed to make browser automation and data extraction simple, reliable, and incredibly scalable. Forget about managing headless browsers, proxy networks, CAPTCHA solvers, and scaling infrastructure - Gaffa handles all that complexity for you! With a single, elegant REST API call, you can instruct real browsers to perform complex actions like scrolling, clicking, and navigating, mimicking genuine human behavior to bypass even the most sophisticated anti-bot measures. Extract data in your preferred format: raw HTML, clean markdown (perfect for LLMs), JSON via AI parsing, or even full-page screenshots. Built for developers, data scientists, and businesses that need dependable web data at scale, Gaffa's core value proposition is freedom: freedom from technical headaches so you can focus entirely on your core business logic and insights. Stop building and maintaining infrastructure; start automating and scaling with confidence today!

Features of Gaffa

Simple REST API

Ditch the heavy frameworks! Gaffa abstracts the complexities of tools like Playwright and Selenium into a straightforward REST API. Send a single request to control real browsers at scale, performing a huge range of actions without needing to learn or manage underlying automation libraries. This dramatically reduces development time and lets you integrate powerful web automation directly into your applications with minimal fuss!

Stealth Mode & Real Browsers

Conquer the toughest websites with ease! Gaffa's stealth mode uses real, fully-fledged browsers (not just headless ones) to render JavaScript perfectly and behave exactly like a human user. Combined with automatic CAPTCHA solving and a global network of residential proxies, this ensures your automations run smoothly and reliably, even on sites aggressively blocking traditional scrapers. Get the data you need with minimum stress!

Built-in Data Processing & Parsing

We deliver more than just a webpage dump! Gaffa can seamlessly process and transform the extracted data for you. Choose from multiple output formats: get clean, simplified HTML; LLM-ready markdown for your AI pipelines; have an LLM parse it directly into structured JSON; or capture the page as an image. We even offer self-contained offline page saves. This turns raw web content into immediately usable data!

Full Observability & Managed Scaling

See everything and scale without limits! Every automation is recorded, giving you full visibility into what happened during each request for easy debugging. Most importantly, Gaffa is built for scale from the ground up. We handle all the infrastructure, concurrency, and failure management. Just tell us what to do, and we'll handle whatever volume you throw at us, letting you grow your web data projects effortlessly!

Use Cases of Gaffa

Large-Scale Competitive Intelligence & Price Monitoring

Automatically track competitor prices, product catalogs, and promotional changes across hundreds of e-commerce sites! Gaffa's stealth mode and residential proxies ensure you can gather this critical business intelligence reliably and at scale, without getting blocked. Transform the web data into JSON or markdown for immediate analysis in your dashboards, giving you a real-time market edge!

AI & LLM Training Data Collection

Fuel your machine learning models with high-quality, current data from the web! Use Gaffa to automate the collection of articles, forum posts, product descriptions, and other text from across the internet. The ability to output clean, LLM-ready markdown or structured JSON via AI parsing makes data preparation for training pipelines faster and more efficient than ever before!

Automated Website Testing & Monitoring

Ensure your web applications are always functioning perfectly! Schedule Gaffa automations to perform critical user journeys—like logging in, adding items to a cart, or submitting forms—on your live site. Capture screenshots and receive alerts if anything breaks. This provides robust, browser-based monitoring that mimics real user behavior, catching issues before your customers do!

Content Aggregation & Market Research

Build dynamic news feeds, aggregate real estate listings, or compile job postings from multiple sources! Gaffa can navigate complex sites, click through pagination, and extract specific content blocks. By handling JavaScript rendering and anti-bot measures, it gathers structured data from modern web applications seamlessly, powering your aggregation platform with fresh, accurate information!

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a credit and how is it calculated?

Credits are the unit used to charge for your Gaffa usage! They are calculated based on two main factors: browser time and proxy bandwidth. Browser runtime is billed at 1 credit per 30 seconds (2 credits if screen recording is on). Residential proxy usage is billed at 1500 credits per 1GB of data transferred. Each successful request deducts the appropriate credits from your monthly plan allowance, giving you clear and predictable costing!

Does Gaffa offer a free trial?

Absolutely, and it's a fantastic way to explore everything! You can sign up for free immediately and get full access to the Gaffa API to build and test automations on our dedicated demo site (demo.gaffa.dev). This allows you to experiment with all key features—scrolling, clicking, data extraction—without any credit card required, ensuring Gaffa is the perfect fit before you upgrade for use on the open web!

What is your refund policy?

We want you to be completely happy! We are happy to offer a refund if you request it before using any credits within your current billing month. This gives you a risk-free window to evaluate our service on live sites. For full details, please check out our dedicated refund policy page on the website. Customer satisfaction is our top priority!

Do unused credits roll over to the next month?

No, credits do not roll over. The credit allowance included with your monthly subscription plan is reset on each billing cycle. Any unused credits from the previous month will expire. This is why we offer a range of plans and a pay-as-you-go credit top-up option, so you can choose a package that closely matches your expected usage and scale up as needed!

Pricing of Gaffa

Gaffa offers simple, tiered pricing to suit every project size and budget! Start experimenting for free on our demo site. When you're ready for the open web, choose a plan:

Starter Plan ($29/month): Perfect for small projects! Includes 9,000 credits, 1 concurrent request, and residential proxy access.
Startup Plan ($99/month): Power your growing business! Includes 35,000 credits, 3 concurrent requests, and longer runtimes.
Growth Plan ($249/month): Built for serious scale! Includes 100,000 credits, 10 concurrent requests, and 5-minute max runtimes.

Need more flexibility? Purchase Pay-As-You-Go Credits at $20 for every 5,000 credits. For large, custom requirements, we offer Bespoke Enterprise Plans—just contact our team to build a solution tailored for you!