Gaffa

In the dynamic landscape of web data, the challenge isn't just about extraction; it's about building a reliable, scalable, and maintainable system that evolves with your needs. Gaffa is the answer to this continuous cycle of improvement. It is an innovative API designed to simplify and supercharge web data extraction and browser automation, allowing developers, data analysts, and businesses to break free from the endless maintenance of complex scraping pipelines. Gaffa's core value proposition is its ability to abstract away the formidable technical hurdles—such as managing headless browsers, configuring proxies, solving CAPTCHAs, and ensuring seamless scalability—so your team can focus on deriving insights and building your core product. By providing a simple, framework-free REST API, Gaffa empowers you to control real browsers at scale with a single call, ensuring JavaScript rendering by default and human-like interactions. This commitment to simplification is matched by a robust architecture that grows with you, handling whatever volume you throw at it while offering advanced data processing and full observability. With Gaffa, you're not just accessing data; you're adopting a partner in your journey of iterative growth and continuous operational refinement.

Simple REST API

Gaffa eliminates the steep learning curve associated with traditional browser automation frameworks like Playwright or Selenium. By abstracting their complex functionalities into a straightforward REST API, developers can initiate and control real browser sessions with a single HTTP call. This framework-free approach dramatically reduces development time and complexity, allowing you to build and iterate on your web automation projects faster and more efficiently, focusing on logic rather than configuration.

Ready-to-Scale Infrastructure

Scaling a web data project presents significant challenges in resource management and reliability. Gaffa's architecture is built from the ground up to handle these demands effortlessly. The platform manages all the underlying complexities, including concurrent request handling, proxy rotation, and performance optimization. This means you can scale your data extraction operations from a few requests to millions without worrying about infrastructure, ensuring your projects grow smoothly and reliably.

Real Browser Automation with Proxies

Gaffa uses real, fully-featured browsers to execute your automations, ensuring perfect JavaScript rendering and avoiding the quirks of headless browsers. Every action is performed exactly as a human would do it. Coupled with a seamlessly integrated global network of residential proxies, you can specify geographic locations for your requests, ensuring fast, reliable, and geographically targeted access to web data without the hassle of managing proxy providers yourself.

Advanced Data Processing & Observability

Gaffa goes beyond simply fetching raw HTML. It includes built-in data processing capabilities to deliver the information you need in the most usable format, whether that's simplified HTML, LLM-ready markdown, or a self-contained offline page. Furthermore, full observability is provided through session recording, allowing you to visually replay every automation. This transparency is crucial for debugging, verifying data accuracy, and continuously improving your automation scripts.

Large-Scale Web Scraping and Data Aggregation

Businesses in market research, competitive intelligence, and price monitoring require vast amounts of accurate, timely data from across the web. Gaffa automates this extraction at scale, handling thousands of targets simultaneously with its robust proxy network and anti-detection measures. This enables companies to build comprehensive datasets for analysis without the operational burden of maintaining fragile scraping infrastructure, turning web data into a consistent, reliable asset.

Automated Testing and Quality Assurance

For development teams, ensuring a web application works flawlessly across different scenarios is a continuous cycle of testing. Gaffa can automate complex user journeys and interactions in real browsers for QA purposes. Its ability to record sessions provides perfect reproducibility for bug reporting, and its scalable nature allows for running extensive test suites in parallel, significantly accelerating the development feedback loop and improving software quality iteratively.

Content Monitoring and Archival

Organizations needing to monitor regulatory updates, news, or digital content changes can use Gaffa to schedule regular, automated visits to target web pages. The service can capture screenshots, save self-contained offline versions, or extract specific content into structured formats. This creates a reliable, automated audit trail and archival system, ensuring critical web-based information is never missed and is stored in a processable format for future reference.

AI and LLM Data Pipeline Preparation

Training and fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) require massive, clean datasets often sourced from the web. Gaffa's ability to extract and process pages directly into LLM-ready markdown format is invaluable. It automates the collection and preprocessing of web content, removing boilerplate and formatting noise, thereby creating high-quality, structured text corpora efficiently. This accelerates the data preparation phase, allowing AI teams to focus on model development and refinement.

What is a credit and how is it calculated?

Credits are Gaffa's unit of consumption for its API. They are calculated based on two primary factors: request time and proxy usage. Browser request time is billed at 1 credit per 30 seconds (or 2 credits per 30 seconds if screen recording is enabled). Additionally, any request using a residential proxy (proxy_location parameter) consumes 1500 credits per 1GB of bandwidth used. Each successful API call deducts the corresponding credits from your monthly allowance.

Does Gaffa offer a free trial?

Yes, Gaffa provides a comprehensive free tier that allows you to experiment with all core API features. You can sign up and immediately start building automations that run on our dedicated demo site (demo.gaffa.dev). This sandbox environment lets you fully test the API's capabilities, from browser control to data processing, without any cost or credit card required, before upgrading to a paid plan for use on the live web.

What is Gaffa's refund policy?

Gaffa is committed to customer satisfaction. We are happy to offer a full refund for your current billing period if you request it before using any of the credits allocated for that month. This policy is designed to give you confidence when upgrading to a paid plan, ensuring you only pay for the service if it meets your needs as you integrate and test it within your own workflows.

Do unused credits roll over to the next month?

No, credits do not roll over from one billing cycle to the next. The credit allowances included in your monthly subscription plan (Starter, Startup, Growth) are reset at the start of each new billing period. This model encourages the continuous and efficient use of the service within your operational cycle. For consistent high-volume needs, our pay-as-you-go credit packs or custom enterprise plans are recommended.

Gaffa offers tiered pricing to suit projects of every scale, with a pay-as-you-go option for additional flexibility. All paid plans include access to the Browser Request API and residential proxies.

Starter Plan ($29/month): Ideal for small projects, including 9,000 credits, 1 concurrent request, a 1-minute max runtime, and 7-day data retention.

Startup Plan ($99/month): Designed to power growing ventures, offering 35,000 credits, 3 concurrent requests, a 2-minute max runtime, and 30-day data retention.

Growth Plan ($249/month): Built for scaling operations, providing 100,000 credits, 10 concurrent requests, a 5-minute max runtime, and 3-month data retention.

Pay-As-You-Go Credits: Additional credits can be purchased for $20 per 5,000 credits, with the same allowances as the Starter plan. This is perfect for supplementing your plan or for projects with variable usage.

Custom Plans: For enterprises with specific requirements, Gaffa offers bespoke plans. You can contact the sales team to design a solution tailored to your unique needs for concurrency, volume, and support.