Maxun Documentation
Turn any website into live, clean structured data with Maxun
Maxun is the open-source web data platform for turning the web into structured, reliable data.
It supports extraction, crawling, scraping, monitoring and search - designed to scale from simple use cases to complex, automated workflows.
Start Here
- New to Maxun? Follow the Quickstart to create your first robot in minutes.
- Not sure which robot to use? See Robots Overview to compare Extract, Scrape, Crawl, Search and Document robots.
- Building in code? Install the Node.js or Python SDK, or use the REST API.
- Using AI agents? Connect Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients with the MCP server.
- Self-hosting? Install the open-source edition with Docker Compose.
What Maxun Enables
| Extraction | Turn websites into structured datasets and APIs, even across dynamic pages and authenticated flows. Learn More. |
| Crawling | Automatically discover and collect data across entire websites with intelligent link following and scoped control. Learn More. |
| Scraping | Convert full webpages into clean Markdown, HTML and capture screenshots. Learn More. |
| Search | Run programmatic web searches and extract results as metadata or full content, with time-based filtering. Learn More. |
| Monitoring | Track websites over time, detect changes, and get notified when they occur. Learn More. |
| Document Extraction & Parsing | Extract and parse structured data from documents (PDF, CSV, XLSX, DOCX, JPG and PNG). Learn More. |
How To Use Maxun
Maxun is no-code by default, with APIs, CLI, MCP, and SDKs for deeper integrations without changing how extractions are defined.
| No-Code Dashboard | Build, run, and manage robots through Maxun's visual interface. No coding required. |
| API | Integrate Maxun's scraping and extraction capabilities into your applications. Learn More. |
| SDK | Use Maxun programmatically for scraping, extraction, automation and more. Learn more. |
| CLI | Create robots, trigger runs, and retrieve data from your terminal. Learn more. |
| MCP | Connect Maxun to AI agents through the Model Context Protocol. Learn more. |
What Can You Build?
Teams use Maxun for e-commerce price and stock monitoring, market research, lead generation, real estate data, content aggregation and academic research, as well as RAG pipelines and AI agents that need live web data.
Sponsors
Continue to the next chapter to understand how Maxun works and how these capabilities are powered.