Gaffa

About Gaffa

In the high-stakes world of data-driven decisions, accessing reliable web data at scale has become a notorious bottleneck. Traditional scraping is a constant battle against anti-bot defenses, proxy management, and brittle infrastructure. Gaffa emerges as the definitive solution, cutting through this complexity with a powerful, unified API. It's the next-generation platform for browser automation and data extraction, designed for developers, data scientists, and growth teams who need clean, actionable web data without the operational nightmare. Gaffa's core value proposition is radical simplification: it abstracts away the entire underlying stack—residential proxies, real browser orchestration, scaling, failure handling, and data parsing—into a single, elegant REST API call. This allows you to mimic sophisticated human browsing patterns, from scrolling and clicking to solving CAPTCHAs, and extract data in your preferred format, be it raw HTML, LLM-ready markdown, JSON via AI, or images. By handling the "undifferentiated heavy lifting," Gaffa empowers you to focus purely on leveraging the data for your business, transforming a chaotic, maintenance-heavy pipeline into a reliable, scalable data utility.

Features of Gaffa

Simple REST API for Complex Automation

Ditch the frameworks and configuration files. Gaffa condenses the power of tools like Playwright and Selenium into a straightforward REST API. Send a single request to trigger complex sequences—scrolling, clicking, form filling—that mimic genuine user behavior on any website. This framework-free approach drastically reduces development time and lowers the barrier to entry for sophisticated web automation, letting you control real browsers at scale with minimal code.

Stealth Mode & Anti-Bot Evasion

Built for the modern web's toughest challenges, Gaffa's stealth mode is engineered to bypass even the most advanced anti-bot protections. It leverages real, fingerprintable browsers (not headless), automatically solves CAPTCHAs, and routes requests through a global network of residential proxies. This combination ensures your data requests appear as organic human traffic, granting you reliable access to data from the most restrictive sites with maximum success rates and minimum manual intervention.

Intelligent Data Processing & Extraction

Gaffa goes beyond fetching raw HTML. It includes built-in, seamless data processing to deliver information in the format you need. Extract clean, simplified HTML, convert pages into structured markdown perfect for LLM ingestion, or even use integrated AI to parse data directly into JSON. You can also capture full-page screenshots or save self-contained, offline versions of web pages, making it a versatile tool for archiving, analysis, and AI training.

Full Observability & Managed Infrastructure

Gain complete visibility into your automations without managing servers. Gaffa records every session, allowing you to replay and audit exactly what happened during a request. More importantly, it provides a fully managed, auto-scaling infrastructure. We handle the proxies, the browser pools, the scaling, and the failures. You simply define the task, and Gaffa ensures it runs reliably, freeing you from the endless cycle of fixing broken scraping pipelines.

Use Cases of Gaffa

Competitive Intelligence & Price Monitoring

Continuously track competitor pricing, product catalogs, and promotional strategies across global e-commerce sites. Gaffa's stealth mode and residential proxies allow you to gather this critical data at scale without being blocked, enabling dynamic pricing strategies and market positioning with real-time, accurate intelligence.

AI & LLM Training Data Collection

Fuel your machine learning models with high-quality, structured data from the web. Use Gaffa to scrape and convert vast amounts of web content into clean, LLM-ready markdown or AI-parsed JSON. This automates the tedious data preparation pipeline, allowing researchers and AI teams to efficiently build massive, current datasets for training and fine-tuning large language models.

Automated Compliance & Brand Monitoring

Proactively monitor the web for copyright infringement, unauthorized brand usage, or regulatory compliance issues. Automate searches and screenshot captures across social media, forums, and news sites. Gaffa's ability to run complex, logged interactions and produce visual evidence makes it an ideal tool for legal and brand protection teams.

Market Research & Sentiment Analysis

Gather unstructured data from reviews, forums, and news articles to understand market trends and public sentiment. Automate the collection of user-generated content at scale, then process it into structured formats for analysis. This provides invaluable, real-time insights into consumer behavior and emerging industry trends without manual data gathering.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a credit and how is it calculated?

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

Does Gaffa offer a free trial?

Yes! You can sign up for a free account with no credit card required to experiment with the full power of the Gaffa API. This free tier allows you to build and test automations on our dedicated demo site (demo.gaffa.dev), giving you hands-on experience with all key features before upgrading to a paid plan for use on the live, open internet.

What is Gaffa's refund policy?

We strive for customer satisfaction. If you request a refund before using any credits within your current billing cycle, we will be happy to process it. We encourage you to review the detailed refund policy on our website for complete terms and conditions.

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 are forfeited, so it's best to plan your usage according to your monthly needs.

Pricing of Gaffa

Gaffa offers tiered pricing to suit projects of every scale, 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 ventures. 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.

Pay-As-You-Go Credits: Purchase additional credits standalone or to supplement your plan at a rate of $20 per 5,000 credits, with the same allowances as the Starter plan. For high-volume or custom needs, Gaffa also offers bespoke enterprise solutions.