Gaffa

About Gaffa

Gaffa is a powerful API designed to solve the complex challenges of web data extraction and browser automation at scale. It provides a simple REST API that abstracts away the immense technical overhead typically associated with these tasks. The core value proposition is reliability and simplicity: developers and businesses can send a single API request to control real browsers, perform complex interactions, and extract data without managing infrastructure, proxies, or parsing logic. Gaffa is built for professionals who need reliable web data—such as data scientists, market researchers, SaaS platforms, and startups—but want to avoid the maintenance nightmare of broken scraping pipelines. It handles everything from residential proxy rotation and CAPTCHA solving to scaling infrastructure and processing failures, allowing users to focus purely on their business logic and data insights. By mimicking natural human browsing patterns and offering multiple output formats, Gaffa ensures high success rates even on the most difficult-to-scrape websites.

Features of Gaffa

Simple REST API

Gaffa replaces complex frameworks like Playwright or Selenium with a straightforward REST API. You can trigger sophisticated browser automation—including scrolling, clicking, and data extraction—with a single HTTP request. This eliminates the need to learn and maintain browser automation libraries and their associated infrastructure, dramatically reducing development time and complexity.

Stealth Mode & Real Browsers

To combat advanced anti-bot measures, Gaffa employs real browsers (not headless) by default, ensuring perfect JavaScript rendering and natural behavior. Its stealth mode combines this with automatic CAPTCHA solving and a global network of residential proxies. This multi-layered approach maximizes success rates and data reliability from even the most protected websites.

Built-in Data Processing & Parsing

Gaffa goes beyond returning raw HTML. It can automatically process and parse page content into your preferred format directly from the API. Options include clean HTML, LLM-ready markdown, full-page screenshots (images), and even structured JSON extracted using AI. This saves significant post-processing time and effort.

Full Observability & Managed Scaling

Every automation is recorded, providing complete visibility into what happened during each request for easy debugging. Furthermore, Gaffa manages all scaling complexities—infrastructure, concurrency, and failure handling—behind the scenes. You specify the task, and Gaffa handles the execution load, ready to scale with your project's demands.

Use Cases of Gaffa

Large-Scale Web Scraping & Data Aggregation

Ideal for businesses that need to aggregate data from multiple public websites at high volume, such as price monitoring, market research, or lead generation. Gaffa manages proxies, browsers, and parsing, delivering clean, structured data reliably without IP blocks or CAPTCHA interruptions.

Automated Testing & Monitoring

Perfect for developers and QA teams needing to automate user journey tests on live web applications. Simulate real user interactions like clicks, form submissions, and scrolls across different geographies using residential proxies to ensure your site works perfectly for all users.

Content Archiving & Screenshot Generation

Useful for legal teams, archivists, or marketers who need reliable, visual records of web pages. Gaffa can generate full-page, high-fidelity screenshots or save complete, self-contained offline versions of pages for compliance, record-keeping, or competitive analysis.

AI & LLM Data Pipeline Preparation

Accelerate the creation of datasets for training or feeding Large Language Models. Gaffa can scrape web content and convert it directly into clean, LLM-ready markdown or structured JSON, streamlining the data preparation pipeline for AI and machine learning projects.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a credit and how is it calculated?

A credit is Gaffa's unit of consumption. Usage is calculated based on two factors: browser time and proxy bandwidth. Browser runtime is charged at 1 credit per 30 seconds (2 credits if screen recording is on). Residential proxy usage is billed at 1500 credits per 1GB of data transferred. Each successful API request deducts the corresponding credits from your balance.

Does Gaffa offer a free trial?

Yes. You can sign up for a free account to experiment with the full Gaffa API. The trial allows unlimited testing and automation on Gaffa's dedicated demo site (demo.gaffa.dev), with no credit card required. This lets you validate all features before upgrading to a paid plan for use on the open web.

What is your refund policy?

We are happy to offer a full refund if requested before any credits have been used in the current billing cycle. Once credits have been consumed, refunds are not typically provided. We recommend reviewing 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 or purchased as a top-up is valid for use within that specific billing period. Any unused credits are forfeited at the start of the next cycle.

Pricing of Gaffa

Gaffa offers tiered monthly plans and pay-as-you-go credit packs:

• Starter: $29/month for 9,000 credits, 1 concurrent request, and 7-day data retention.
• Startup: $99/month for 35,000 credits, 3 concurrent requests, and 30-day retention.
• Growth: $249/month for 100,000 credits, 10 concurrent requests, and 3-month retention.
  All plans include access to the Browser Request API and residential proxies. Additionally, you can Get Credits at $20 per 5,000 credits on a pay-as-you-go basis. For high-volume or custom needs, bespoke enterprise plans are available upon request.