About CrawlFox

A short, honest read about what we're building, where we are, and how we got here.

What we're building

CrawlFox is the infrastructure layer that lets AI agents and developers turn any URL into clean, model-ready data. One API for scrape, search, and interaction — the hard parts of getting a high-success rate on protected sites are already handled, so you aren't stitching infrastructure together yourself.

Where we are

CrawlFox is in public beta. The hosted API is live: scrape, SERP, batch jobs, and the customer dashboard are all in customer hands today. Coming next: published SDKs in Python and Node, a formal SLA tied to the GA milestone, and the open-source roadmap described below.

How we got here

We started CrawlFox in 2026 because every existing scraping API forced a tradeoff we didn't want to accept: pay per page on a black-box vendor, or run your own browser farm and cookie pool and re-learn the same anti-bot lessons that have been solved a thousand times before. We're a small team — no growth-hacking, no launch-week vanity metrics. The infrastructure runs on self-hosted servers behind Cloudflare, not someone else's PaaS auto-scaler, because it lets us spend the time on extraction quality instead of monthly egress bills. We'd rather ship one tier that handles the hard cases reliably than ten that mostly work.

Open source

The gateway, pipeline, and SDKs will go open-source on a roadmap. Today the codebase is private while we shake out the production contract; the underlying license is MIT, so when the public release lands you'll be able to read every line and self-host the gateway against your own infrastructure if you want to. Until then CrawlFox is available as a hosted API only.

Get in touch

Bug, feature request, or a hard target you can't crack? Email support@crawlfox.io — we read every message.