We make the web usable again.
Basecrawl gives builders a reliable way to turn the open web into clean, structured data, without making them become crawling experts first.
OUR STORY
The web changed faster than the tools used to read it.
Basecrawl began with a familiar frustration: the data we needed was public, but getting it into a product took brittle scripts, one-off parsers, and far too much time spent watching jobs fail quietly. Modern sites render late, change often, and rarely offer their most useful information in one tidy format.
We started by building a crawler we wanted on our own teams: resilient enough for messy sites, explicit enough for production, and simple enough to explain in one request. A page in, clean markdown, JSON, or HTML out. From there, the work became a broader question: how do we make the web a dependable data layer for the people building what comes next?
Today, Basecrawl is a small, distributed team building those answers in the open. We care about thoughtful defaults, useful diagnostics, and software that gives engineers confidence when the source material keeps moving underneath them.
PRODUCT CALL OUT
The same API surface we wish we had years ago.
Basecrawl is built by people who maintained crawling glue for too long. The product figure we ship is the system: scrape, crawl, map, and structured output without another bespoke pipeline.
- Public pages become dependable markdown, JSON, or HTML.
- Depth, budgets, and job states stay explicit for production.
UI product frame
product · system map
Shipped surfaces
Web Scraper
POST /v1/scrape
Site Crawler
POST /v1/crawl
Map
POST /v1/map
Extract
POST /v1/extract
useful defaults > bespoke crawl glue diagnostics first when the host moves
HOW WE WORK
Values that show up in the details.
We use these principles to make decisions when the straightforward answer is not obvious.
Make complexity legible
The web is unruly. Our job is to turn its moving parts into primitives that feel calm, inspectable, and dependable.
Own the edge cases
A crawler earns trust in the hard places: malformed markup, JavaScript-heavy pages, rate limits, and the last one percent.
Respect builders
We write for developers who read error messages, care about defaults, and need an API that keeps its promises.
Stay curious in public
We share what we learn, change our minds with evidence, and keep a direct line between customer reality and product decisions.
THE TEAM
Small by design, close to the work.
We are distributed across time zones, united by an appetite for clear systems and a healthy respect for the web's strange corners.
Mika Chen
Co-founder & CEO
Mika turns ambiguous customer signals into a product direction the whole team can execute.
Amir Rahman
Co-founder & CTO
Amir leads the systems work behind predictable crawls, even when the web is anything but predictable.
June Okafor
Head of Product
June keeps the platform useful at the keyboard, from the first request to a production data pipeline.
Elsa Brandt
Design Engineer
Elsa shapes every interaction around a simple idea: powerful tools should still feel like good tools.
Help us make the next layer of the web.
We are looking for curious people who care about useful infrastructure and the builders who depend on it.