We launched Spidra on Product Hunt today. If you're reading this from the PH page, welcome. If you've been following along since the beta, thank you — genuinely.
This post is not a feature list. We have docs for that. This is more of a honest account of where we started, what we actually built, and where we're going.
Where it started
I've spent years writing technical content about web scraping. Tutorials, guides, deep dives. Thousands of developers have read that content, and the comment section was always the same: "This worked great until the site updated." Or: "The proxy setup is killing me." Or: "Got blocked again."
I wasn't just hearing this from readers. I was living it myself. Every time I needed to pull data for a project, I'd spend two days building a scraper, get it working, and then watch it break a week later when the site changed a class name somewhere. The actual data extraction was maybe 10% of the work. The other 90% was fighting infrastructure — proxies, CAPTCHAs, rotating agents, handling pagination, managing sessions.
That's the problem we set out to fix.
What we actually built
The core idea behind Spidra is simple: you describe what you want in plain text (English or any language), and you get back clean, structured data.
If you prefer CSS selectors, you can use those too. Either way, the proxy setup and CAPTCHA management are handled on our end, not yours.
But simple ideas are hard to execute well, so here's what's under the hood:
AI Mode (just a name) is what makes Spidra different from traditional scrapers. Instead of relying on CSS selectors that snap the moment a site redesigns, Spidra reads the page structure and intent on every run. If the site moves things around, the extraction still works.
Real browser automation means Spidra behaves like an actual human. It clicks, scrolls, fills forms, waits for dynamic content to load. Not a headless request, but a real session.
Proxy and CAPTCHA handling is fully automatic. We route through a residential proxy network across 45+ countries and solve CAPTCHAs including Cloudflare Turnstile and reCAPTCHA in real time. You never touch any of this.
Batch scraping lets you queue up to 50 URLs in a single request and pull results in parallel. For teams working at scale, this matters a lot.
Scheduled delivery means you can set Spidra to run on a schedule and push results directly to Slack, Discord, email, webhooks, or your database. We are revamping this to be crazier.
SDKs across multiple languages — Node.js, Python, PHP, Go, Ruby, Rust, .NET, and more. We also shipped an official n8n node for teams who prefer no-code automation workflows. We didn't want stack preference to be a reason someone couldn't use Spidra.
What the last few months looked like
We've been in beta since November. Here's what that period taught us.
A user told us early on that full-site crawling wasn't working for their specific workflow. We built the feature and demoed it back on their exact site within 48 hours. That's become the way we operate — fast feedback loops, no feature request sitting in a backlog for months.
We shipped forEach actions, structured output, batch scraping, and authenticated scraping in a single update in April. We shipped 7 SDKs and an n8n node in 72 hours. Not because we were racing, but because someone needed it and we could move fast.
We're a small team of five who each wear many hats. That's actually been a strength — decisions get made quickly, nothing sits in approval chains, and every line of code and every piece of content has been built by people who actually care whether it works.
Who Spidra is for
We built Spidra for two types of people.
Developers who are tired of maintaining scraping infrastructure. If your team keeps rebuilding scrapers every time a site updates, or you're spending engineering time on proxy management instead of the actual product — Spidra removes all of that.
Non-technical teams who need web data but can't spin up a scraper. The Playground requires zero code. You paste a URL, describe what you want, and get structured output. Lead gen, market research, price monitoring, content aggregation — all of it, without a single line of code.
What's free and what's paid
Every account gets 300 free credits, no credit card required. That's enough to run real jobs and see exactly what Spidra can do before you spend anything.
Paid plans start at $19/month. Full pricing is here.
What's next
We're not done building. There's a lot still on the roadmap — improvements to the crawler, more integration options, better workflow automation, and things we're not ready to talk about yet.
But more than features, we're focused on reliability. The worst thing a data tool can do is give you inconsistent results. That's what we're obsessing over right now.
Try it
If you've been sitting on the idea of trying Spidra, today is a good day. We're live at spidra.io, the docs are at docs.spidra.io, and we are genuinely available if you have questions — in the Product Hunt comments, or at [email protected].
We built this because we were tired of the problem. We think you'll feel the difference.
