Introducing Crawlio: A Simple Web Scraping API That Just Works

If you’ve ever tried to scrape websites at scale, you’ve probably run into the usual suspects: rate limits, dynamic content, anti-bot protections, and the overhead of maintaining your own scraping infrastructure. I’ve hit all of those too — which is why I started building Crawlio.

Crawlio is a lightweight, developer-friendly web scraping API that lets you scrape individual pages, crawl entire websites, or batch-process large lists of URLs. It’s designed to keep things simple: one API key, three endpoints (/scrape, /crawl, and /batch-scrape), and straightforward pricing that doesn’t punish experimentation. You can get started for free and scrape up to 1,000 pages without paying a cent.

Core Features That Matter

At its core, Crawlio offers four main endpoints:

• /scrape - Pull content from a single page with minimal setup.

• /crawl — Automatically follow internal links and extract content across a site.

• /batch-scrape — Scrape multiple URLs in one request to save time and reduce overhead.

• /result - Fetches top 10 result from search engine as per the provided query.

One of the most useful new additions is the workflow feature — which lets you simulate real browser behavior (like clicking, scrolling, waiting, or running JavaScript) directly in your API call. It’s a great middle ground between static scraping and full browser automation. For sites that use infinite scroll or hide data behind tabs and modals, workflow lets you interact with the page before extracting content — without setting up something like Puppeteer or Playwright yourself.

Built with Developers in Mind

Crawlio includes SDKs for Python and Node.js (both under active development), and supports Markdown formatting if you’re extracting content for text processing or summarization.

There’s a free plan, along with affordable paid options — and Crawlio is currently cheaper than Firecrawl and similar tools. While we don’t yet have every advanced feature other platforms offer (like complex form inputs), we’re shipping new updates every week and building with feedback from real users.

Whether you’re scraping news articles, product pages, job listings, or internal tools, Crawlio is designed to help you do it faster — and with fewer headaches. It’s not trying to be everything at once. Just a scraping API that works the way you expect it to.