Gaffa

About Gaffa

In today's data-driven world, accessing reliable web data at scale is a critical but increasingly difficult challenge. Modern websites employ sophisticated anti-bot measures, CAPTCHAs, and dynamic JavaScript rendering that break traditional scraping tools. Managing the infrastructure to overcome these hurdles—residential proxies, headless browsers, scaling, and constant maintenance—becomes a full-time job, diverting focus from core business objectives. Gaffa is the definitive solution to this problem. It is a powerful API designed to make web automation and data extraction simple, reliable, and scalable again. By abstracting away the immense complexity of browser automation, Gaffa provides developers, data scientists, and businesses with a single REST API endpoint to control real browsers, mimic human behavior, and extract data in any format. Whether you're a startup needing competitive intelligence, an enterprise building a data pipeline, or a researcher gathering public information, Gaffa handles the technical heavy lifting. Its core value proposition is clear: stop fixing broken scraping pipelines and start concentrating on deriving value from the data, with a tool engineered to work against even the hardest-to-scrape websites on the internet.

Features of Gaffa

Simple REST API

Gaffa eliminates the need to learn and manage complex frameworks like Playwright, Selenium, or Puppeteer. Its entire functionality is accessible through a straightforward REST API. With a single HTTP request, you can instruct a real browser to perform a wide array of actions, from navigation and scrolling to clicking and form submission. This dramatically reduces development time and complexity, allowing you to integrate powerful web automation directly into your applications without deep expertise in browser automation tools.

Stealth Mode with Real Browsers & Proxies

To combat advanced anti-bot protections, Gaffa employs a stealth mode that uses genuine, fully-fledged browsers (not just headless instances) to mimic natural human browsing patterns perfectly. This mode is combined with automatic CAPTCHA solving and a global network of residential proxies. The result is a high-success-rate data extraction capability that appears as organic traffic to target websites, ensuring you get the data you need with minimal blocks and maximum reliability.

Built-in Data Processing & Extraction

Gaffa goes beyond simply fetching HTML. It includes powerful built-in processing to deliver data in the format most useful for your project. You can extract raw HTML, capture full-page screenshots, convert pages into clean, LLM-ready markdown, or even use integrated LLM capabilities to parse and structure data directly into JSON. This removes the need for separate parsing libraries and post-processing steps, streamlining your data pipeline from fetch to final format.

Full Observability and Managed Scaling

Gaffa provides complete visibility into your automations with session recording, so you can visually debug and verify what happened during each request. Furthermore, it is a fully managed service. You never have to worry about provisioning servers, managing proxy pools, or handling infrastructure failures. Gaffa is built to scale elastically, ready to handle any volume of requests you throw at it, freeing you from the operational burdens of scaling a web data project.

Use Cases of Gaffa

Competitive Intelligence and Price Monitoring

Businesses can automate the tracking of competitor pricing, product listings, and promotional offers across hundreds of e-commerce websites. Gaffa's stealth mode and residential proxies ensure reliable, uninterrupted data collection even from sites that aggressively block scrapers, enabling dynamic pricing strategies and market analysis.

Lead Generation and Market Research

Sales and marketing teams can automate the collection of public contact information, company details, and market trends from business directories, social media platforms, and news sites. By converting web pages into structured JSON or markdown, Gaffa turns unstructured web data into a ready-to-use lead database or research report.

Content Aggregation and Monitoring

Media companies and analysts can build automated systems to monitor news outlets, blogs, and forums for specific keywords or topics. Gaffa can render JavaScript-heavy sites, take screenshots for visual verification, and compile content into a unified feed, ensuring no critical update is missed.

Automated Testing and Compliance Checking

Development and legal teams can use Gaffa to automate functional tests for web applications across different geographies using proxies or to routinely check a company's own websites for regulatory compliance, broken links, or content changes. The ability to script complex user journeys via API makes it a versatile testing tool.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a credit and how is it calculated?

A credit is Gaffa's unit of consumption for its API. Costs are based on two primary factors: compute time and proxy bandwidth. Browser runtime is billed at 1 credit per 30 seconds (or 2 credits/30s if screen recording is enabled). Residential proxy usage is billed at 1500 credits per 1GB of data transferred. Each successful request deducts the calculated credits from your monthly plan allowance.

Does Gaffa offer a free trial?

Yes. You can sign up for a free account to experiment with the complete Gaffa API. This free tier allows you to build and run automations on Gaffa's dedicated demo site (demo.gaffa.dev). This provides a full-featured, no-credit-card-required environment to test all capabilities before upgrading to a paid plan for use on the open internet.

What is your refund policy?

Gaffa is happy to offer a refund if you request it within the current billing cycle, provided you have not yet used any credits from that month's allocation. This allows new users to evaluate the service on live targets with minimal risk. Please refer to the official refund policy for complete details.

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 date. Any unused credits from the previous period will expire and be replaced by your new monthly allowance. This is a common model for usage-based services.

Pricing of Gaffa

Gaffa offers tiered monthly plans to suit different needs and budgets, along with a pay-as-you-go credit option.

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

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

Growth Plan ($249/month): Built for scaling operations, offering 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, which come with the same allowances as the Starter plan. This is ideal for supplementing a plan or for irregular usage.

Note: 10,000 credits is roughly equivalent to 83 hours of browser runtime without using proxies.