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TheCrawler
Web scraping with AI extraction included — we own the GPU
Scraping APIs bill you twice: once for the page, again for the AI that reads it. We bought GPUs instead - so TheCrawler scrapes any site to clean JSON/markdown with AI extraction INCLUDED. 1 credit = 1 page, no per-call AI surcharge, structurally impossible for metered rivals to match. Grounded extraction returns null instead of inventing values. Plus web search, async batch + webhooks, change-monitoring, and an MCP server for Claude Code/Cursor. 500 free pages, no card.
Hi Product Hunt 👋 I'm Manchit, and I built TheCrawler because scraping APIs bill you twice — once for the page, again for the AI that reads it. Their marginal cost is an OpenAI invoice, so they meter every extraction. I bought GPUs instead (128GB box running a Qwen MoE via llama.cpp). Extraction became a sunk cost, so I price it like a plain scrape: 1 credit = 1 page, AI included. That's the whole pitch — the rarest thing here isn't a feature, it's the cost structure. A metered competitor can't match it without re-architecting their COGS.
What it does: scrape any URL to markdown/JSON (+ brand data, contacts, tables) · AI extraction to your schema with a grounding validator — every value must trace to the page text or it returns null instead of inventing · you only pay for valid results: /diagnose scores extractability before you spend a credit, and failed/empty extractions are auto-refunded · bring your own LLM — point extraction at any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (Ollama, llama.cpp, LM Studio) and your data never leaves your infra · web search · async batch with signed webhooks · change-monitoring watchlists · an MCP server so it works inside Claude Code and Cursor.
Honest limits: no stealth/residential-proxy tier yet (heavily bot-protected sites will block it), answer-synthesis search is on the roadmap, MCP is stdio-only.
Free tier is 500 pages, no card. I'd genuinely love your teardown - I'll be here all day answering everything.
About TheCrawler on Product Hunt
“Web scraping with AI extraction included — we own the GPU”
TheCrawler was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #160 on the daily leaderboard. Scraping APIs bill you twice: once for the page, again for the AI that reads it. We bought GPUs instead - so TheCrawler scrapes any site to clean JSON/markdown with AI extraction INCLUDED. 1 credit = 1 page, no per-call AI surcharge, structurally impossible for metered rivals to match. Grounded extraction returns null instead of inventing values. Plus web search, async batch + webhooks, change-monitoring, and an MCP server for Claude Code/Cursor. 500 free pages, no card.
On the analytics side, TheCrawler competes within API, Developer Tools and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 1.1M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how TheCrawler performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted TheCrawler?
TheCrawler was hunted by Manchit Snan. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of TheCrawler including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Manchit Snan