Gaffa

About Gaffa

Stop wrestling with the endless complexities of web data extraction and automation. Gaffa is your liberation from broken scraping pipelines, proxy management headaches, and the constant battle against anti-bot measures. We provide a powerful, simple REST API that puts the power of real, human-like browser automation at your fingertips. Designed for developers, data scientists, and businesses of all sizes, Gaffa's mission is to transform how you access web data. Forget about configuring headless browsers, sourcing residential proxies, scaling infrastructure, or parsing messy HTML. Gaffa handles all the underlying infrastructure, failures, and stealth technology so you can focus entirely on your core business logic and innovation. Whether you need to scrape dynamic content, automate complex user journeys, capture screenshots, or convert web pages into LLM-ready formats, a single API call to Gaffa makes it happen reliably and at scale. Reclaim your time, reduce your stress, and unlock a world of web data with unprecedented ease and reliability.

Features of Gaffa

Simple REST API

Gaffa eliminates the need to learn and maintain complex frameworks like Playwright, Selenium, or Puppeteer. We've abstracted their powerful capabilities into a straightforward, intuitive REST API. Send a single request to perform actions like scrolling, clicking, and form filling, mimicking natural human browsing patterns. This dramatically reduces development time and complexity, allowing you to build robust automations in minutes, not days.

Stealth Mode & Real Browsers

Conquer even the most challenging, bot-protected websites. Gaffa's stealth mode utilizes real browser instances (not just headless) to ensure flawless JavaScript rendering and avoid detection. Combined with automatic CAPTCHA solving and a global network of residential proxies, your requests appear as genuine human traffic from real locations worldwide. This guarantees high success rates and the data you need, without the blocks.

Built-in Data Processing & Observability

Gaffa delivers more than just raw HTML. We seamlessly process page data into the format you need: simplified HTML, clean Markdown perfect for LLM ingestion, structured JSON via LLM extraction, full-page images, or even self-contained offline page archives. Furthermore, full session recording provides complete observability, letting you visually replay automations to debug issues or verify outcomes effortlessly.

Managed Scaling & Infrastructure

Scale your web data projects with zero operational overhead. Gaffa's cloud infrastructure is designed to handle massive, concurrent request volumes seamlessly. We manage all the complexities of scaling, reliability, proxy rotation, and failure handling. You simply define the task, and we execute it reliably, freeing you from server management and letting you "throw whatever you need at us."

Use Cases of Gaffa

Large-Scale Competitive Intelligence & Price Monitoring

Empower your business strategy with real-time market data. Automate Gaffa to monitor competitor websites, track pricing changes, catalog product assortments, and analyze promotional strategies across hundreds of targets simultaneously. Our stealth technology ensures uninterrupted data flow, providing the accurate, timely insights you need to stay ahead and make informed decisions.

AI & LLM Training Data Collection

Fuel your machine learning models with high-quality, structured data from the web. Use Gaffa to automate the collection of text, images, and metadata from diverse online sources. The ability to output data as clean Markdown or LLM-parsed JSON dramatically simplifies data preparation pipelines, turning the vast web into a ready-to-use dataset for training and fine-tuning advanced AI models.

Automated Testing & Compliance Monitoring

Ensure your web applications function perfectly and comply with regulations. Gaffa can automate complex user journeys to test checkout flows, form submissions, and dynamic content across different environments and geographies. Simultaneously, automate audits to monitor regulatory content, privacy policy updates, or terms of service changes across multiple sites.

Content Aggregation & Market Research

Build comprehensive dashboards and reports by aggregating content from news sites, review platforms, social media, and forums. Gaffa handles the login sessions, infinite scrolling, and dynamic loading to extract articles, comments, ratings, and trends. Transform this scattered public data into a centralized, actionable intelligence hub for research and analysis.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a credit and how is it calculated?

Credits are the unit of consumption for the Gaffa API. They are calculated based on two primary factors: browser time and proxy bandwidth. Browser runtime is billed at 1 credit per 30 seconds (2 credits if screen recording is enabled). Residential proxy usage is billed at 1500 credits per 1GB of data transferred. Each successful request deducts the corresponding credits from your monthly plan allowance, providing a clear and predictable cost structure for your automation workload.

Does Gaffa offer a free trial?

Yes! You can sign up for a free account and immediately begin experimenting with the full power of the Gaffa API. Your free access allows you to build and run automations on our dedicated demo site (demo.gaffa.dev), enabling you to test all features, understand the workflow, and validate your use cases without any commitment or credit card required. It's the perfect way to experience the transformation before upgrading.

Can I purchase credits on a pay-as-you-go basis?

Absolutely. In addition to our monthly subscription plans, we offer a flexible "Get Credits" option. You can purchase blocks of 5,000 credits for $20, which come with the same API allowances as the Starter plan. This is ideal for variable workloads, one-off projects, or supplementing your existing plan, giving you complete control over your spending and scaling.

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 period will expire. This encourages efficient use of resources and helps us maintain clear pricing. We recommend selecting a plan that closely matches your expected monthly usage.

Pricing of Gaffa

Gaffa offers transparent, tiered pricing to suit projects of every scale. All plans include access to the Browser Request API and residential proxies.

Starter - $29/month: Perfect for small or personal projects. Includes 9,000 credits, 1 concurrent request, a 1-minute max runtime, and 7-day data retention.

Startup - $99/month: Designed to power your growing business. Includes 35,000 credits, 3 concurrent requests, a 2-minute max runtime, and 30-day data retention.

Growth - $249/month: Built for serious scaling. Includes 100,000 credits, 10 concurrent requests, a 5-minute max runtime, and 3-month data retention.

For ultimate flexibility, you can also Get Credits on a pay-as-you-go basis at $20 per 5,000 credits. For high-volume or custom needs, we encourage you to Contact Us for a bespoke enterprise plan.