# Anakin-Inc/anakin

Open-source web scraping API. Turn any website into clean markdown or structured JSON. Anti-detect browser, proxy auto-selection, self-hosted. One command: make up

Repository: https://github.com/Anakin-Inc/anakin
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/anakin
Homepage: https://anakin.io
Language: Go
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: ai, anti-detect, golang, markdown, open-source, playwright, scraper, self-hosted, web-crawler, web-scraping
Last push: 2026-08-18T18:06:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 73/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 76, longevity 12
- inputs: {"age_days": 169, "days_push": 15, "days_rel": 163, "gap_med": 4, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: young
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2302, forks 139 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:35.349641+00:00)

## What it is
AnakinScraper OSS is a self-hosted web scraping API written in Go that turns any website into LLM-ready markdown or structured JSON via a simple REST endpoint. It combines an anti-detect browser (Camoufox), ML-based smart proxy selection, and a fallback handler chain (HTTP fetch → browser → external API) to scrape sites that block bots.

## Use cases
- scrape websites into clean markdown for LLM and RAG pipelines
- extract structured JSON data from web pages with AI
- self-host a Firecrawl alternative with one docker command
- scrape JavaScript-heavy sites that block headless browsers
- crawl pages behind CAPTCHAs and bot detection
- feed live web data into AI agents and chatbots
- monitor website content changes with per-domain scraping configs
- reduce paid scraping API costs with local-first handler fallback

## When to choose
- you need a self-hosted scraping API with no cloud dependency and a single Go binary
- your targets use aggressive anti-bot measures requiring an anti-detect browser
- you want LLM-ready markdown or AI-structured JSON output for RAG or agents
- you want to minimize paid scraping API spend by only falling back to external services when local handlers fail
- you need per-domain scraping strategies with failure detection and auto-retry

## When to avoid
- you only need simple static HTML fetching without anti-detection
- you want a managed hosted service rather than running your own infrastructure
- AGPL-3.0 licensing is incompatible with your product's distribution model
- you need a pure Python or Node scraping framework with deep programmatic control like Scrapy or Crawlee

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, http-server, api-framework, rag, nlp, proxy
- domain: crawlers, web-development, artificial-intelligence, self-hosted, apis
- platform: self-hosted, go, windows, cli
- tags: anti-detect-browser, camoufox, playwright, markdown-conversion, structured-extraction, handler-chain, firecrawl-alternative, llm-ready, proxy-rotation, crawler, retrieval-augmented-generation, data-engineering, docker, linux, macos, web-server

## Member repositories
- Anakin-Inc/anakin (main) score 73

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:35.349641+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:40:09.173806+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Anakin-Inc/anakin (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:35.349641+00:00, sha 8b7f3435c253)
  - homepage: https://anakin.io (fetched 2026-08-29T10:20:22.584926+00:00, sha 01b992945dd3)
  - site_page: https://anakin.io/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T10:20:22.706568+00:00, sha c920635c32e7)
  - site_page: https://anakin.io/about (fetched 2026-08-29T10:20:22.709245+00:00, sha f3efe5235484)
  - site_page: https://anakin.io/products/ai-visibility (fetched 2026-08-29T10:20:22.594552+00:00, sha 8836f3f8e619)
  - site_page: https://anakin.io/enterprise/price-monitoring (fetched 2026-08-29T10:20:22.596818+00:00, sha 9fc6d82df33c)
  - site_page: https://anakin.io/enterprise/ecommerce (fetched 2026-08-29T10:20:22.609133+00:00, sha e4666bc5f696)
  - site_page: https://anakin.io/use-cases/llm-visibility (fetched 2026-08-29T10:20:22.636824+00:00, sha 82667b3a84b0)
  - site_page: https://anakin.io/pricing (fetched 2026-08-29T10:20:22.669479+00:00, sha f6dc74567fa7)
  - site_page: https://anakin.io/integrations (fetched 2026-08-29T10:20:22.711279+00:00, sha 9bdf5fc98fe0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.