Meet Carl, Your AI-Powered Web Scraping Sidekick

Carl is a friendly AI worm that crawls websites intelligently, extracting exactly the data you need with minimal fuss. No coding required, just ask in plain English!

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What Makes Carl Special?

Carl isn't your ordinary web scraper. He's a clever little worm with some extraordinary talents!

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AI-Powered Intelligence

Carl uses AI to understand websites semantically and find the exact data you need.

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Deep Search

Carl can dig up to 5 layers deep into a website to find what you're looking for. He's a determined little worm!

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Automatic Adaptation

From simple static pages to complex JavaScript apps, Carl adapts his approach to extract your data.

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Human Mimicking

Carl can act just like a human to bypass bot detection when needed. No one will know he's a worm!

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Comprehensive Responses

Carl doesn't just dump data on you. He creates clear, organized summaries with proper citations.

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Simple API

Just tell Carl what you want in plain English. No complex configurations or parameters needed.

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Automatic Captcha Handling

Carl intelligently solves captchas and other verification challenges without human intervention.

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Proxy Rotation

Carl automatically rotates between proxies to maintain anonymity and prevent IP blocking.

Where Others Fail, Carl Prevails

Carl isn't just another web scraper - he's a clever little worm with capabilities that make other tools squirm!

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Agentic Tool Selection

Unlike basic scrapers that use rigid heuristics, Carl's AI brain intelligently selects the perfect tool for each scenario - whether it's handling a tricky captcha, rendering complex JavaScript, or mimicking human behavior.

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Human-Like Navigation

Carl doesn't just stay on a single page. He intelligently navigates through URLs within websites, finding the exact pages where your data lives, exploring link structures like a human would until he discovers precisely what you need.

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Beyond Simple Scraping

Forget HTML dumps or rigid markdown outputs that you need to parse yourself. Carl delivers structured, ready-to-use data, along with insightful summaries, exactly as requested - no regex required, even when websites change their layout.

"While others give you code to decipher, Carl gives you answers."

How Carl Works His Magic

Carl's web crawling process is both simple and sophisticated

1

You Make a Request

Tell Carl which website to visit and what data you need in plain English. For example: "Get the price and availability of this product."

2

Carl Analyzes the Page

Carl crawls the website and uses AI to understand its structure, detect JavaScript, and identify where your data might be located.

3

Carl Chooses His Tools

Based on the page analysis, Carl automatically selects the best scraping approach - from simple requests to advanced JavaScript rendering.

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Carl Navigates If Needed

If your data isn't on the current page, Carl will intelligently navigate through the website to find it (up to 5 layers deep with Deep Search).

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Carl Delivers the Goods

Carl returns your data, along with confidence scores, citations, and a comprehensive summary of all the information he found.

Carl's Crawling Modes

Carl has three ways to explore the web, from lightning-quick to deeply thorough

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Precision Mode

When Carl stays on a single page, he's like a laser-focused detective. No navigation, no distractions - just extracting exactly what you need from the page you specified. Perfect for pricing pages or other content where you know exactly where your data lives!

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Smart Navigator Mode

Carl becomes a curious explorer, checking out the most promising links on the page (up to 3!) to find your data. Ideal for finding contact details, pricing information, or product specs that might be one click away from your starting page.

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Deep Dive Mode

The full webcrawling experience! Carl ventures up to 5 layers deep into the website to collect comprehensive data. Perfect for company enrichment for CRMs, gathering information when you only know the base URL, or extracting data spread across multiple sections.

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How Precision Mode Works

Precision Mode is designed for scenarios where you know exactly which page contains your target data, like pricing pages, product details, or company information pages.

Technical Implementation:

  • Single Page Focus: Carl processes only the specific URL provided, with no navigation to other pages.
  • Tool Selection: Carl intelligently chooses between simple HTTP requests and JavaScript rendering based on your specific page.
  • Hyperlink Removal: All hyperlinks are explicitly removed from the response to prevent any navigation temptation.
  • Optimized Execution: With a limit of just 5 tool operations, Precision Mode delivers the fastest possible results.
  • Structured Data Support: Pass a JSON object as your target_data to receive structured data in exactly the format you need.

Perfect For:

  • Pricing pages where data is on a single page
  • Product specifications on a dedicated page
  • About us or contact pages with clear information
  • Any scenario where you know the exact URL containing your data
{
  "url": "https://example.com/pricing",
  "target_data": {
    "basic_plan": "Basic plan price (number)",
    "pro_plan": "Pro plan price (number)",
    "enterprise_plan": "Enterprise plan details"
  },
  "intelligent_search": false
}

How Smart Navigator Mode Works

Smart Navigator Mode enables Carl to explore one layer beyond the initial page, making it perfect for scenarios where data is just one click away, like contact details, pricing information, or product specifications.

Technical Implementation:

  • Single Layer Navigation: Carl explores links directly connected to the initial page (one layer deep).
  • AI-Powered Link Selection: Using AI, Carl analyzes all links and selects up to 3 most promising ones to explore.
  • Sequential Processing: Carl visits suggested URLs one at a time in order of relevance.
  • Execution Limit: Limited to 5 tool operations for efficient processing.
  • URL Assessment: Each potential link is evaluated for relevance to your target data before visiting.
  • Structured Data Support: Define your data structure with JSON to get precisely formatted results.

Perfect For:

  • Finding contact details like email addresses or phone numbers
  • Retrieving pricing information from linked pages
  • Gathering product specifications from detail pages
  • Support or FAQ pages where information might be one click away
{
  "url": "https://example.com/contact",
  "target_data": {
    "email": "Company email address",
    "phone": "Phone number",
    "address": "Physical address"
  },
  "intelligent_search": true,
  "deepsearch": false
}

How Deep Dive Mode Works

Deep Dive Mode is a full webcrawling solution that navigates through multiple layers of a website to find comprehensive data, ideal for company enrichment for CRMs or when you only know the base URL.

Technical Implementation:

  • Multi-Layer Navigation: Carl explores up to 5 layers deep into the website structure.
  • Layered Approach: URLs are grouped by layer and processed systematically, starting from the initial page.
  • Parallel Processing: URLs at the same layer are processed simultaneously using multi-threading for maximum efficiency.
  • Smart Prioritization: Carl intelligently prioritizes the most promising URLs at each layer based on AI likelihood assessment.
  • Tree Structure Tracking: A complete navigation path is maintained using the URLTree model to prevent loops.
  • Execution Limit: Up to 15 tool operations across all layers to prevent infinite loops.
  • Comprehensive Response: Results are aggregated across all visited URLs for a complete answer.
  • JSON Structure Support: Specify all data points you need in a structured JSON format for organized results.

Perfect For:

  • Company enrichment for CRMs with comprehensive data collection
  • Gathering information when you only know the base URL
  • E-commerce sites with product data spread across categories and listings
  • Website summaries that require data from multiple sections
{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "target_data": {
    "company_name": "Company name",
    "employees": "Employee count (number)",
    "office_locations": "List of office locations (array)",
    "social_profiles": "Social media profiles (array)",
    "leadership_team": "Key executives (array)"
  },
  "intelligent_search": true,
  "deepsearch": true
}

Carl's a clever little worm - he'll use multi-threading in Deep Dive and Smart Navigator modes to process multiple URLs in parallel, making him extra speedy while still being gentle on websites!

Carl's Simple API

Getting data from websites has never been this easy

curl -X POST "https://api.crawlycarl.com/api/v1/crawl-sync" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{
       "url": "https://example.com/product",
       "target_data": "Get the product price, availability and reviews",
       "deepsearch": true,
       "intelligent_search": true
     }'
import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.crawlycarl.com/api/v1/crawl-sync",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    json={
        "url": "https://example.com/product",
        "target_data": "Get the product price, availability and reviews",
        "deepsearch": True,
        "intelligent_search": True
    }
)

data = response.json()
print(data["data"]["extracted_data"])
const fetch = require('node-fetch');

const response = await fetch('https://api.crawlycarl.com/api/v1/crawl-sync', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    url: 'https://example.com/product',
    target_data: 'Get the product price, availability and reviews',
    deepsearch: true,
    intelligent_search: true
  })
});

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.data.extracted_data);

Example Response:

{
  "status": "success",
  "data": {
    "url": "https://example.com/product",
    "extracted_data": {
      "price": "$19.99",
      "availability": "In Stock",
      "reviews": [
        {"rating": 5, "text": "Great product!"},
        {"rating": 4, "text": "Works well but shipping was slow"}
      ]
    },
    "confidence": 95,
    "complete_response": "The product costs $19.99 and is currently In Stock. It has 14 reviews with an average rating of 4.5 stars."
  },
  "meta": {
    "tool_usage": [
      {"tool_name": "web_scraper", "cost": 3},
      {"tool_name": "js_renderer", "cost": 5}
    ],
    "total_cost": 8,
    "processing_time_ms": 2543
  }
}

Meet Carl in Your Browser

Carl's Chrome Extension brings his data extraction powers directly to your browser

With just a keyboard shortcut (Command+Shift+Y on Mac or Ctrl+Shift+Y on Windows/Linux), summon Carl to extract data from any webpage you're browsing.

  • Ask questions in plain English about any webpage
  • Get instant answers without leaving your browser
  • Enable Deep Search for thorough website exploration
  • Beautiful, unobtrusive UI that stays out of your way
  • Clickable citations so you can verify information sources
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Crawly Carl Chrome Extension

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