Gaffa

Gaffa represents the next evolutionary step for developers and businesses that have outgrown the fragile, time-consuming nature of DIY web data extraction and browser automation. In the early stages of a project, managing proxies, headless browsers, and CAPTCHA-solving scripts might be a manageable hurdle. However, as your ambitions grow and you target more complex, anti-bot protected websites, these homemade systems become a major bottleneck, consuming valuable engineering resources that should be focused on core product development. Gaffa solves this by providing a sophisticated, production-ready REST API that abstracts away the entire infrastructure headache. It empowers teams to progress from simple data fetching to executing complex, human-like browser interactions at any scale, without the operational overhead. Whether you're a startup validating a market with competitive data or an enterprise building a data-driven product, Gaffa provides the reliable, scalable foundation to fuel your growth. It lets you concentrate entirely on deriving insights and value from web data, not on maintaining the fragile tools to collect it. By handling the complexities of real browsers, global proxies, scaling, and data processing, Gaffa is the engine that powers your data evolution.

Simple REST API for Automation

Gaffa abstracts the complexities of frameworks like Playwright, Selenium, and Puppeteer into a straightforward REST API. This means you can control real browsers at scale with a single API call, leaving behind the need to manage frameworks, configuration, and low-level browser drivers. It dramatically reduces the learning curve and development time, allowing you to implement powerful browser automation without deep expertise in specific testing or automation libraries.

Real Browser Interaction & JavaScript Rendering

Unlike basic HTTP clients, Gaffa uses real browsers by default, ensuring full JavaScript rendering and eliminating the quirks associated with headless browsers. This guarantees that your automations interact with web pages exactly as a human user would, which is critical for navigating modern, dynamic websites that rely heavily on client-side scripts for content loading and functionality.

Built-in Global Proxy Network

Gaffa seamlessly integrates with a network of residential proxies, managed for you. You simply specify your target geographic location, and Gaffa handles the rest, providing fast and reliable access from across the world. This removes the significant operational burden of sourcing, rotating, and maintaining your own proxy infrastructure to avoid IP blocks and geo-restrictions.

Advanced Data Processing & Observability

Gaffa goes beyond fetching raw HTML. It can process page data into simplified HTML, LLM-ready markdown, or even save a self-contained offline version. Furthermore, it offers full observability by recording your automation sessions. This allows you to easily replay and debug interactions, providing clear visibility into what happened during each request, which is invaluable for maintaining robust data pipelines.

Competitive Intelligence and Market Research

Startups and enterprises can use Gaffa to automate the collection of pricing, product listings, and promotional data from competitor websites at scale. This provides a reliable, up-to-date stream of market intelligence to validate business strategies, track market movements, and inform critical decisions without manual, error-prone data gathering.

Building Data-Driven Products

Companies building products that rely on external web data—such as price comparison engines, lead generation platforms, or content aggregators—can use Gaffa as their core data ingestion engine. Its scalability and reliability ensure their product has a consistent and high-quality data feed, allowing the team to focus on product features and user experience instead of pipeline maintenance.

Automated Content Extraction and Archiving

Researchers, journalists, and compliance teams can leverage Gaffa to systematically scrape, archive, and convert web content into structured formats. Whether saving web pages as self-contained offline documents for legal records or converting articles into clean markdown for analysis by Large Language Models (LLMs), Gaffa automates and simplifies the entire process.

Automated Testing and Monitoring

Development and operations teams can utilize Gaffa to automate complex user journey tests on live production websites or monitor third-party service uptime and content changes. By executing real browser interactions, it can verify that critical user flows work correctly and alert teams to unexpected changes or outages on external sites they depend on.

What is a credit worth and how is usage calculated?

Browser requests are charged in credits based on two primary factors: request length and proxy bandwidth. Request time is billed at 1 credit per 30 seconds (or 2 credits per 30 seconds if screen recording is enabled). Proxy usage is billed at 1500 credits per 1GB of bandwidth when a specific proxy_location is used. Each successful request deducts the corresponding credits from your monthly allowance, providing a clear and predictable cost structure for your automation workload.

Does Gaffa offer a free trial period?

Yes, Gaffa offers a free way to experiment with all key features. You can sign up and use the API to build and run automations on a dedicated demo site (demo.gaffa.dev) without requiring a credit card. This allows you to fully explore the API's capabilities, test your automation logic, and understand the platform's value before upgrading to a paid plan for use on the open internet.

What is Gaffa's refund policy?

Gaffa is happy to offer a refund if requested before any credits have been used within the current billing month. This policy ensures that customers can commit to a plan with confidence, knowing they can receive a refund if their needs change before actively consuming resources on the platform. More details are available in the full policy documentation.

Do unused credits roll over to the next month?

No, credits do not roll over from month to month. The credit allowance included with your monthly subscription plan is reset at the start of each new billing cycle. This is a common model for usage-based services and helps keep pricing simple and predictable. It's designed to align with typical monthly operational budgeting for data extraction projects.

Gaffa offers tiered pricing plans to suit projects at every stage of growth, along with flexible pay-as-you-go options.

Starter Plan ($29/month): Ideal for small or personal projects. Includes 9,000 credits, 1 concurrent request, a 1-minute max runtime, 7-day data retention, and access to residential proxies.

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

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

Get Credits (Pay-As-You-Go): For additional or standalone usage, credits can be purchased at $20 per 5,000 credits, with the same allowances as the Starter plan. For bespoke, high-volume needs, custom enterprise plans are available by contacting the Gaffa team.