# CrawlPilot

> CrawlPilot is a privacy-first browser extension for web scraping and data extraction.
> Turn any website into structured data without writing code.

## Product

CrawlPilot is a Chrome and Firefox browser extension that lets users extract data from any webpage visually — selecting elements, paginating, and exporting to CSV/JSON. It runs entirely in the browser, so no scraped data leaves the user's device.

- **Category**: Web scraping tool, no-code data extraction, browser extension
- **Pricing**: Free tier available. Paid plans from $9/month (Basic), $29/month (Pro), $79/month (Team)
- **Compatibility**: Chrome, Firefox (any Chromium-based browser)
- **Website**: https://crawlpilot.tech

## Key Pages

- [Home](https://crawlpilot.tech/): Product overview, features, and pricing
- [Documentation](https://crawlpilot.tech/crawlpilot/docs): How to install and use CrawlPilot
- [Blog](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog): Guides, research, and tutorials on web scraping
- [Solutions: E-commerce](https://crawlpilot.tech/solutions/ecommerce): Using CrawlPilot for product and price data
- [Solutions: Lead Generation](https://crawlpilot.tech/solutions/lead-gen): Using CrawlPilot for B2B lead extraction
- [Solutions: Real Estate](https://crawlpilot.tech/solutions/real-estate): Using CrawlPilot for property listing data
- [Solutions: Job Boards](https://crawlpilot.tech/solutions/job-boards): Using CrawlPilot to extract job listings and salaries
- [Solutions: Market Research](https://crawlpilot.tech/solutions/market-research): Using CrawlPilot for competitor monitoring and review aggregation
- [Solutions: Travel](https://crawlpilot.tech/solutions/travel): Using CrawlPilot for hotel and flight price data
- [Glossary](https://crawlpilot.tech/resources/glossary): Web scraping terms and definitions
- [Roadmap](https://crawlpilot.tech/roadmap): Upcoming features and shipped milestones
- [Privacy Policy](https://crawlpilot.tech/crawlpilot/privacy): How CrawlPilot handles data
- [Terms of Service](https://crawlpilot.tech/crawlpilot/terms): Terms of use
- [Support](https://crawlpilot.tech/crawlpilot/support): Help and contact

## Blog Posts

- [AI Is the New Uranium: Why the US Is Treating Claude Like a National Asset](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/ai-regulation-us-government-claude): Opinionated analysis of how US AI export controls mark a break from 30 years of tech globalism — and what it means for Anthropic, Claude, and the fragmentation of AI into geopolitical blocs.
- [The Universe Is Trying to Destroy Your Codebase](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/entropy-in-software-thermodynamics): How the Second Law of Thermodynamics maps precisely to software entropy, technical debt, and why codebases decay.
- [HLD: Design a Live Streaming Platform for the FIFA World Cup](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/hld-live-streaming-platform-fifa): High-level system design walkthrough for serving 50M concurrent viewers — ingest, transcoding, HLS/DASH, CDN, and failover.
- [Inside the Web Scraping Proxy Industry](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/web-scraping-proxy-industry): Proxy types, vendor economics, ISP proxies, real-world success rates, and how to choose.
- [The Anti-Bot Detection War](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/anti-bot-detection-war): How modern bot detection systems work and how scrapers evade them.
- [The Cloudflare Web Scraping Era](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/cloudflare-web-scraping-era): How Cloudflare's bot management changed web scraping and what it means for data extraction.
- [How Amazon Detects Web Scrapers](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/how-amazon-detects-scrapers): Amazon's multi-layer detection stack and techniques used to bypass it.
- [How AI Agents Are Replacing Traditional Scrapers](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/ai-agents-replace-scrapers): The shift from brittle CSS selectors to goal-based autonomous web agents.
- [Scraping Amazon with Puppeteer](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/scraping-amazon-with-puppeteer): Step-by-step guide to extracting product data from Amazon using Puppeteer.
- [MCP Puppeteer Guide](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/mcp-puppeteer-guide): Using the Model Context Protocol with Puppeteer for AI-driven browser automation.
- [How to Scrape Amazon Bestsellers](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/how-to-scrape-amazon-bestsellers): Extracting bestseller rankings, categories, and product data from Amazon.
- [How to Scrape Data from Mobile Apps](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/how-to-scrape-data-from-mobile-apps): Intercepting mobile API traffic and extracting structured data from apps.
- [Getting Started with CrawlPilot](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/getting-started-with-crawlpilot): Installation, first extraction, pagination, and export walkthrough.
- [Introduction to the CrawlPilot Extension](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/introduction-to-crawl-pilot-extension): Feature overview of the CrawlPilot browser extension.
- [The Future of Web Scraping](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/future-of-web-scraping): Where web data extraction is heading — AI, browser fingerprinting, and legal frameworks.
- [Privacy and Ethics in Web Scraping](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/privacy-and-ethics): Legal landscape, ethical considerations, and responsible scraping practices.
- [The CrawlPilot Manifesto](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/manifesto): CrawlPilot's philosophy on open web access and data democratization.
- [10 Agentic Design Patterns: How to Build Reliable AI Agents in Python](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/agentic-design-patterns): Ten composable AI agent patterns — from prompt chaining to multi-agent orchestration — with plain-English explanations, ASCII flow diagrams, and working Python examples.
- [How Large Language Models Work: Tokens, Transformers, and Why Training Costs $100M](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/how-llms-work-transformers-explained): Plain-English explainer on LLMs — tokenisation, embeddings, attention, parameters, and why training and inference cost money.
- [Vector Databases Explained: Embeddings, Semantic Search, and Production Tradeoffs](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/vector-databases-ingestion-search-milvus): What vector databases are, how embeddings encode meaning, index types (HNSW, IVF), and real tradeoffs — with a working Milvus example.
- [How Apache Flink Works: Real-Time Stream Processing, RocksDB State, and Fault Tolerance](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/apache-flink-architecture-rocksdb-kafka-streams): Flink's coordinator-worker architecture, RocksDB state, checkpointing, and how Kafka Streams compares.
- [Ad Click Aggregator System Design: Kafka, Flink, and Real-Time Analytics at Scale](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/system-design-ad-click-aggregator): Designing a system for 10,000 ad clicks/second — Kafka queuing, Flink processing, deduplication, and ClickHouse analytics.
- [Your AI Chatbot Is Not a Charity: The Case for AI Governance and Firewalls](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/ai-governance-firewall-enterprise): What happens when you deploy GenAI without guardrails, and how the industry is taking control with AI firewalls and governance.
- [How GenAI Is Disrupting Management Consulting: Accenture, McKinsey, and What's Next](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/genai-disrupting-consulting-accenture): How generative AI is dismantling the consulting model — Accenture's 19,000 job cuts and $3B in AI revenue in the same year.
- [Vercel Agent Browser: How AI Agents Can Now Drive Real Browsers](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/vercel-agent-browser-guide): What Vercel's Agent Browser CLI is, the screenshot-plus-element-reference model that lets an LLM operate a real browser, where it fits alongside AI SDK 7, and its limits.
- [Context Engineering: Techniques for Building Reliable LLM Agents](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/context-engineering-techniques): Filling the context window with the right information — the four failure modes (poisoning, overload, token bloat, drift) and the techniques that fix them (RAG, memory, tool loadout, compaction, sub-agent isolation).
- [Token Optimization: Cut LLM Cost and Latency Without Losing Quality](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/token-optimization-llms): Practical levers for cutting LLM spend — prompt caching, context pruning, structured output, model routing, batching, reasoning-effort control, and measuring with real token counts.
- [How to Scrape Google Maps Business Listings (No Code)](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/how-to-scrape-google-maps-listings): Extracting business names, ratings, addresses, and contact details from Google Maps without code.
- [How to Scrape LinkedIn Search Results Without Getting Blocked](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/how-to-scrape-linkedin-profiles): Extracting profile and company data from LinkedIn search results while avoiding detection.
- [How to Scrape Zillow Real Estate Listings (No Code)](https://crawlpilot.tech/blog/how-to-scrape-zillow-real-estate-listings): Extracting property prices, addresses, and listing details from Zillow without code.

## Use Cases

CrawlPilot is used for:
- Price monitoring and competitor analysis
- Lead generation and contact data extraction
- Real estate listing aggregation
- Research and academic data collection
- AI training data collection
- Market research and trend analysis
- E-commerce product catalog building
- News and media monitoring

## Frequently Asked Questions

**What is CrawlPilot?**
CrawlPilot is a browser extension that makes web scraping accessible to non-developers. Users point and click to select data on any webpage, and CrawlPilot extracts it into CSV or JSON format — no coding required.

**Is CrawlPilot free?**
Yes. CrawlPilot has a free tier. Paid plans (Basic $9/mo, Pro $29/mo, Team $79/mo) unlock higher data limits, team collaboration, and advanced export features.

**Does CrawlPilot require coding skills?**
No. CrawlPilot is designed for non-technical users. The interface is entirely point-and-click for selecting data elements on any webpage.

**How does CrawlPilot protect privacy?**
CrawlPilot is local-first: all scraping and data processing happens inside the user's browser. No scraped data is transmitted to CrawlPilot's servers.

**Is web scraping legal?**
Web scraping of publicly available information is generally legal in most jurisdictions, confirmed by the hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn ruling. Users are responsible for complying with each website's terms of service and applicable local laws.

**What websites can CrawlPilot scrape?**
CrawlPilot works on any publicly accessible webpage including e-commerce sites (Amazon, eBay, Shopify), social directories, real estate portals, news sites, and business directories.

**How is CrawlPilot different from Python scrapers like Scrapy or Puppeteer?**
CrawlPilot requires no coding or server setup. It runs in the browser, handles JavaScript-rendered pages automatically, and is accessible to anyone — not just developers.

**What is the HLD blog series?**
CrawlPilot publishes system design articles (High-Level Design / HLD) targeting engineers learning distributed systems. Topics include live streaming infrastructure, web scraping at scale, and CDN architecture — written to be accessible without sacrificing technical depth.