Gaffa

Gaffa is the autonomous data acquisition engine for the AI era, a revolutionary API-first platform that surgically removes the immense technical burden of web data extraction. It represents a quantum leap beyond traditional scraping tools, providing a single, elegant REST API that replaces the need to build and maintain complex, scalable infrastructure involving headless browsers, proxy networks, and CAPTCHA-solving services. Designed for developers, data scientists, and businesses, Gaffa delivers profound simplicity through immense power. It handles the entire pipeline, from mimicking human-like browsing behaviors and rendering JavaScript-heavy Single Page Applications (SPAs) to processing raw HTML into AI-ready structured formats like JSON or clean markdown. Whether you're a startup building foundational AI training datasets, a market intelligence firm tracking global trends, an e-commerce analyst monitoring competitors, or an academic researcher gathering information, Gaffa provides reliable, large-scale access to web data. Its core value proposition is clear: focus purely on leveraging data, not fighting for it in a digital landscape fortified with increasingly sophisticated anti-bot defenses.

Simple REST API Abstraction

Gaffa's foundational feature is its powerful REST API that abstracts away the complexities of browser automation frameworks like Playwright, Selenium, and Puppeteer. With a single API call, you can command real browsers at scale, leaving the headaches of framework configuration, driver management, and script maintenance behind. This paradigm shift allows developers to integrate sophisticated web interaction and data extraction capabilities directly into their applications without becoming experts in low-level browser automation protocols.

Real Browser Execution & JavaScript Rendering

Unlike basic HTTP clients or headless browsers with detection quirks, Gaffa executes commands on genuine, fully-fledged browsers. This ensures perfect JavaScript rendering by default, allowing you to interact with and scrape data from the most modern, dynamic web applications (SPAs) exactly as a human user would. This capability is critical for accessing data behind complex client-side logic and evading anti-bot systems that fingerprint headless environments.

Integrated Proxy Network & Global Scaling

Gaffa seamlessly integrates with a managed network of residential proxies, providing fast and reliable access from geographic locations across the globe. You simply specify your target location, and Gaffa handles the rest—no need to source, rotate, or manage proxy IPs yourself. This built-in infrastructure, combined with automatic scaling, means you can throw any volume of work at the platform without worrying about IP bans, rate limits, or scaling distributed systems.

AI-Ready Data Processing & Full Observability

Gaffa goes beyond returning raw HTML. It can intelligently process page data into simplified HTML, clean markdown optimized for Large Language Model (LLM) ingestion, or even save self-contained offline versions of pages. Coupled with full session recording and observability tools, you get complete transparency into every automation. You can watch exactly what happened, debug issues visually, and receive data in the most usable format for your downstream AI models and analytics pipelines.

Building AI Training Datasets

Startups and AI research labs require massive, high-quality, and current datasets to train and fine-tune machine learning models. Gaffa enables the automated, large-scale collection of text, image, and structured data from diverse public web sources. Its ability to render JavaScript and process data into clean formats like markdown makes it indispensable for creating the foundational datasets that power the next generation of AI applications.

Competitive Intelligence & Market Research

Market intelligence firms and business analysts use Gaffa to autonomously monitor competitors' websites, track pricing fluctuations, analyze product catalogs, and gather sentiment from reviews and forums. The platform's reliability at scale and geographic proxy capabilities allow for continuous, global market surveillance, turning the public web into a real-time strategic dashboard for data-driven decision-making.

E-Commerce Price & Inventory Monitoring

E-commerce businesses and aggregators leverage Gaffa to track competitor pricing, monitor stock levels, and scrape product details across thousands of SKUs. By automating these tasks with human-like browsing patterns, they can dynamically adjust their own pricing strategies, identify market gaps, and ensure their product feeds are always up-to-date, all without triggering anti-scraping defenses.

Academic Research & Data Journalism

Researchers and journalists often need to collect data from numerous public websites, government portals, or social media platforms for longitudinal studies or investigative reporting. Gaffa democratizes this access, allowing them to design precise data collection automations without needing a team of software engineers. It ensures the data is collected consistently, ethically at scale, and is ready for immediate analysis.

What is a credit and how is it calculated?

A credit is Gaffa's unit of consumption for its browser automation service. It is calculated based on two primary factors: execution time and proxy usage. Browser runtime is billed at 1 credit per 30 seconds of request execution (doubled to 2 credits if screen recording is enabled). Additionally, any request using a residential proxy incurs a bandwidth charge of 1500 credits per 1GB of data transferred. This model aligns cost directly with actual resource usage.

Does Gaffa offer a free trial?

Yes, Gaffa provides a fully-featured free tier that allows you to experiment with the complete API. You can sign up and immediately begin building and testing automations on Gaffa's dedicated demo site (demo.gaffa.dev). This sandbox environment requires no credit card and lets you validate the platform's capabilities before upgrading to a paid plan for use on the live, open internet.

What is Gaffa's refund policy?

Gaffa is happy to offer a refund upon request, provided the refund is asked for within the current billing month and before any credits from that month's allowance have been consumed. This policy ensures fairness and allows users to confidently evaluate the service for their specific use case without financial risk.

Do unused credits roll over to the next month?

No, credits do not roll over from month to month. The credit allowances included in your monthly subscription plan (Starter, Startup, Growth) are reset at the start of each new billing cycle. Any unused credits from the previous period are forfeited, so it's optimal to plan your automation workload within your monthly credit allocation.

Gaffa offers tiered subscription plans designed to scale with your data acquisition needs. The Starter plan is $29/month, ideal for small projects, and includes 9,000 credits and 1 concurrent request. The Startup plan at $99/month provides 35,000 credits and 3 concurrent requests to power growing ventures. The Growth plan, for $249/month, delivers 100,000 credits and 10 concurrent requests for serious scaling. All plans include access to the Browser Request API and residential proxies. Additionally, you can purchase extra Credits on a pay-as-you-go basis at $20 for every 5,000 credits, which can be used standalone or to supplement any plan. For enterprise-grade requirements, Gaffa offers custom plans tailored to specific needs.