Crawly – Affordable web scraping and YouTube transcript API

Summary: Crawly provides an enterprise-grade API for web scraping and extracting YouTube transcripts at $0.001 per request. It returns clean Markdown from any URL and supports transcript formats like text, SRT, and VTT, with built-in headless rendering, anti-bot bypass, and residential proxies.

What it does

Crawly accepts URLs or YouTube links via POST requests and returns clean Markdown or full transcripts. It uses Cloudflare edge network, headless browser rendering, and proxy rotation to ensure reliable scraping.

Who it's for

Developers and AI tools needing scalable, low-cost web scraping and transcript extraction without subscriptions.

Why it matters

It reduces web scraping costs significantly while providing infrastructure that handles anti-bot measures and outputs optimized for LLMs and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines.