AnyCrawl

AnyCrawl is a high‑performance crawling and scraping toolkit:

• SERP crawling: multiple search engines, batch‑friendly
• Web scraping: single‑page content extraction
• Site crawling: full‑site traversal and collection
• High performance: multi‑threading / multi‑process
• Batch tasks: reliable and efficient
• AI extraction: LLM‑powered structured data (JSON) extraction from pages

LLM‑friendly. Easy to integrate and use.

📖 See full docs: Docs

If you enable authentication (ANYCRAWL_API_AUTH_ENABLED=true), generate an API key:

pnpm --filter api key:generate
# optionally name the key
pnpm --filter api key:generate -- default

The command prints uuid, key and credits. Use the printed key as a Bearer token.

If running AnyCrawl via Docker:

• Docker Compose:

docker compose exec api pnpm --filter api key:generate
docker compose exec api pnpm --filter api key:generate -- default

• Single container (replace <container_name_or_id>):

docker exec -it <container_name_or_id> pnpm --filter api key:generate
docker exec -it <container_name_or_id> pnpm --filter api key:generate -- default

💡 Use the Playground to test APIs and generate code in your preferred language.

If self‑hosting, replace https://api.anycrawl.dev with your own server URL.

curl -X POST https://api.anycrawl.dev/v1/scrape \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ANYCRAWL_API_KEY' \
  -d '{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "engine": "cheerio"
}'

More parameters: see Request Parameters.

curl -X POST "https://api.anycrawl.dev/v1/scrape" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ANYCRAWL_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "url": "https://example.com",
    "json_options": {
      "schema": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "company_mission": { "type": "string" },
          "is_open_source": { "type": "boolean" },
          "employee_count": { "type": "number" }
        },
        "required": ["company_mission"]
      }
    }
  }'

curl -X POST https://api.anycrawl.dev/v1/crawl \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ANYCRAWL_API_KEY' \
  -d '{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "engine": "playwright",
  "max_depth": 2,
  "limit": 10,
  "strategy": "same-domain"
}'

More parameters and endpoints: see Request Parameters.

curl -X POST https://api.anycrawl.dev/v1/search \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ANYCRAWL_API_KEY' \
  -d '{
  "query": "AnyCrawl",
  "limit": 10,
  "engine": "google",
  "lang": "all"
}'

• Google

1. Can I use proxies? Yes. AnyCrawl ships with a high‑quality default proxy. You can also configure your own: set the proxy request parameter (per request) or ANYCRAWL_PROXY_URL (self‑hosting).
2. How to handle JavaScript‑rendered pages? Use the Playwright or Puppeteer engines.

We welcome contributions! See the Contributing Guide.

MIT License — see LICENSE.

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