Developer Documentation & API Reference
Comprehensive technical guides, API endpoints, parameters, and code examples in Python, TypeScript, and cURL to integrate GcrawlAI into your stack.
Overview & Architectural Foundation
Comprehensive documentation, API references, quickstart guides, and SDK examples for GcrawlAI. Learn how to scrape, crawl, search, and map websites with code snippets.
All GcrawlAI API endpoints authenticate via standard HTTP Bearer tokens passed in the Authorization header. APIs accept application/json payloads and return standardized JSON responses with detailed execution telemetry including token counts, proxy regions, and render latency.
Core Capabilities & Developer Features
REST API Reference
Detailed endpoint specifications, request bodies, query parameters, and response schemas for all GcrawlAI APIs.
SDKs & Libraries
First-party client SDKs for Python and TypeScript/Node.js with built-in retries, rate limiting, and typing.
Cookbooks & Recipes
Step-by-step implementation tutorials for RAG pipelines, LangChain integrations, lead enrichment workflows, and batch scrapers.
Error Handling & Status Codes
Clear documentation of HTTP status codes, error payloads, anti-bot response diagnostics, and debugging tips.
Architecture & Pipeline Execution Lifecycle
When integrating web scraping and crawling operations into production workflows, data integrity, anti-bot resilience, and predictable latency are paramount. GcrawlAI processes incoming extraction requests through an intelligent gateway that evaluates target domain security profiles, selects appropriate proxy routing topologies (datacenter, residential, or mobile), and assigns requests to isolated headless Chromium instances.
During page execution, dynamic DOM trees are rendered, client-side JavaScript challenges are solved autonomously, and layout hydration events are monitored. The resulting rendered HTML is passed through semantic sanitization heuristics that strip non-content elements, boilerplate navigation menus, cookie consent banners, and tracking scripts while strictly preserving structural headings, tabular data, code snippets, and canonical links.
For AI and LLM workflows, the sanitized document is converted into token-efficient Markdown or validated against your custom JSON Schema before being returned to your client application, ensuring that downstream vector embeddings and language model reasoning receive high-density factual context without noise.
Enterprise Reliability, Rate Limiting & Webhook Integration
GcrawlAI provides battle-tested infrastructure built for high concurrency and enterprise throughput. With automated proxy rotation, intelligent failure retries, and comprehensive telemetry across every endpoint, your engineering team can focus on building intelligent applications rather than maintaining fragile scraping scripts.
Production data ingestion pipelines require high throughput and robust error resilience. GcrawlAI APIs support both synchronous request-response patterns for low-latency interactive workflows and asynchronous batch processing for multi-thousand URL workloads. Automated exponential backoff with jitter is applied to transient network errors or rate-limited endpoints, ensuring maximum completion rates.
When executing large-scale crawl or batch jobs, real-time webhooks provide milestone progress updates and post-completion payloads directly to your ingestion endpoints or cloud storage buckets. All responses adhere to standardized schemas with transparent HTTP status codes, structured error payloads, and full execution metadata including render timings, proxy geography, and token metrics.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I obtain an API key?
Sign up for a GcrawlAI account, navigate to the Console, and generate an API key instantly from the API Keys tab.
Are there official SDKs available?
Yes. GcrawlAI provides official SDKs for Python (pip install gcrawlai) and Node.js/TypeScript (npm install gcrawlai).
What is the standard rate limit on the API?
Default rate limits range from 5 to 100 concurrent requests depending on your plan tier. Enterprise accounts can request custom limits up to 1,000+ concurrency.