Gaffa

About Gaffa

Gaffa is a powerful API designed to solve the modern challenges of web data extraction and browser automation at scale. It transforms the complex, time-consuming process of building and maintaining scraping infrastructure into a simple, reliable service. By providing a single REST API endpoint, Gaffa handles the entire backend complexity, including managing residential proxies, scaling infrastructure, handling failures, and parsing data. This allows developers, data scientists, and businesses to focus on their core objectives rather than fixing broken pipelines. The platform is built for anyone who needs reliable web data, from startups conducting market research to large enterprises monitoring competitors or aggregating content. Its core value proposition is delivering human-like browser interactions against even the most difficult-to-scrape websites, ensuring you get the data you need with minimal technical overhead and maximum reliability.

Features of Gaffa

Simple REST API

Gaffa abstracts the complexities of frameworks like Playwright or Selenium into a straightforward REST API. You send a single HTTP request to perform sophisticated browser actions such as navigating, scrolling, clicking, and extracting data. This eliminates the need to learn and manage separate automation libraries, significantly speeding up development time and reducing the barrier to entry for complex web automation tasks.

Stealth Mode & Real Browsers

To combat advanced anti-bot measures, Gaffa employs a stealth mode that uses real, fully-fledged browsers (not just headless ones) to mimic natural human browsing patterns. This approach, combined with automatic CAPTCHA solving and a global network of residential proxies, ensures high success rates when accessing the most challenging targets, providing data where other methods fail.

Built-in Data Processing

Gaffa goes beyond simply fetching HTML. It can process and return page data in multiple formats tailored for different use cases. You can extract clean, simplified HTML, LLM-ready markdown, full-page screenshots (as images), or even structured JSON parsed by an LLM. This built-in processing saves countless hours of post-scraping data cleaning and normalization.

Full Observability & Scaling

The platform provides complete visibility into your automations with screen recording capabilities, so you can easily debug and verify actions. Furthermore, Gaffa is engineered for scale from the ground up. It manages all infrastructure, concurrency, and proxy rotation automatically, allowing you to handle from a few requests to millions without worrying about servers, IP blocks, or performance tuning.

Use Cases of Gaffa

Competitive Intelligence & Price Monitoring

Automate the tracking of competitor websites, e-commerce product listings, and service pricing. Gaffa can log in, navigate through catalogs, and extract real-time prices and stock information, providing crucial data for dynamic pricing strategies and market analysis without manual effort.

Content Aggregation for LLMs & AI

Build high-quality datasets for training or grounding Large Language Models. Gaffa can scrape and convert web content into clean, structured markdown or JSON format that is immediately ready for ingestion by AI pipelines, streamlining the data collection process for machine learning projects.

Automated Web Testing & Monitoring

Continuously monitor the functionality and performance of your own web applications or third-party services. Use Gaffa to simulate user journeys, click buttons, fill forms, and take screenshots to verify uptime, catch visual regressions, and ensure critical user flows are working correctly.

Market Research & Lead Generation

Extract structured data from business directories, social media platforms, and review sites. Automate the collection of company details, contact information, and customer sentiment to build targeted lead lists and conduct comprehensive market research at scale.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a credit and how is it calculated?

A credit is Gaffa's unit of consumption for its API. Usage is 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 on). Additionally, any request using a residential proxy is charged 1500 credits per 1GB of bandwidth used. Each successful request deducts the corresponding credits from your monthly plan allowance.

Is there a free trial available?

Yes, Gaffa offers a free tier that allows you to sign up and experiment with the full API capabilities without a credit card. You can build and run automations on Gaffa's dedicated demo site (demo.gaffa.dev) to test all features, understand the workflow, and validate the product for your needs before upgrading to a paid plan for use on the open web.

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 and will not be carried forward, so it's designed for consistent, monthly usage.

What is Gaffa's refund policy?

Gaffa is happy to offer a refund if you request it before using any credits in your current billing cycle. Once you have started consuming credits on a paid plan for the month, refunds are typically not issued. It's recommended to review the detailed refund policy on their website for the most accurate and current information.

Pricing of Gaffa

Gaffa offers tiered monthly plans to suit different needs and budgets. All 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 for growing businesses, 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.

Additionally, you can purchase Pay-As-You-Go Credits at $20 for every 5,000 credits, which come with the same allowances as the Starter plan. For high-volume or custom requirements, Gaffa encourages you to contact them for a bespoke enterprise solution.