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Maxun is a no-code platform for scraping, crawling, and extracting data from websites. It's built for developers and non-technical users alike who need structured data from the web without writing custom scrapers or maintaining brittle pipelines.
The core idea is simple: record your actions in a browser, and Maxun turns that recording into a reusable "robot" that extracts data on demand. No selectors to write, no code to maintain. You can also skip the recorder entirely and describe what you want in plain language. The AI agent navigates the site and pulls the relevant data automatically.
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For developers who want more control, Maxun exposes a REST API, Python and JavaScript SDKs, a CLI, and native MCP support for agent orchestration. It fits naturally into workflows where an AI agent needs to call a web scraping tool as a skill. There are also pre-built robots for common targets like GitHub trending repos, IMDb, YouTube, and Airbnb listings.
Compared to tools like Firecrawl or Crawl4AI, Maxun leans harder into the no-code recorder experience and autonomous agents, making it accessible to people who don't want to touch an API at all. It's a self-hostable alternative to proprietary platforms like Apify or Octoparse, with the full codebase available on GitHub.
Over 100 million rows have been extracted through the platform, and it carries more than 14,000 GitHub stars.
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