# Maxun Documentation
<h3>Turn any website into live, clean structured data with Maxun</h3>

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](/quickstart) to create your first robot in minutes.
- **Not sure which robot to use?** See [Robots Overview](/robot/robots) to compare Extract, Scrape, Crawl, Search and Document robots.
- **Building in code?** Install the [Node.js or Python SDK](/sdks), or use the [REST API](/api/api).
- **Using AI agents?** See [Build with AI](/ai) to [add Maxun to Claude, Cursor, Codex and other agents](/ai/add-to-agent) with MCP or skills, or give them the docs as [llms.txt](https://docs.maxun.dev/llms.txt).
- **Self-hosting?** Install the open-source edition with [Docker Compose](/installation/docker).

## What Maxun Enables
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    <td><strong>Scrape</strong></td>
    <td>Convert full webpages into clean Markdown, HTML and capture screenshots. <a href="/robot/scrape">Learn More</a>.</td>
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    <td><strong>Crawl</strong></td>
    <td>Automatically discover and collect data across entire websites with intelligent link following and scoped control. <a href="/robot/crawl">Learn More</a>.</td>
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    <td><strong>Agent</strong></td>
    <td>Extract data from websites with AI that autonomously discovers where the data lives. <a href="/robot/agent">Learn More</a>.</td>
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    <td width="180"><strong>Extract</strong></td>
    <td>Extract structured data from websites by recording browser actions. <a href="/category/extract">Learn More</a>.</td>
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    <td><strong>Search</strong></td>
    <td>Run programmatic web searches and extract results as metadata or full content, with time-based filtering. <a href="/robot/search/search-introduction">Learn More</a>.</td>
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    <td><strong>Monitor</strong></td>
    <td>Track websites over time, detect changes, and get notified when they occur. <a href="/monitoring">Learn More</a>.</td>
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    <td><strong>Document Extract &amp; Parse</strong></td>
    <td>Extract and parse structured data from documents (PDF, CSV, XLSX, DOCX, JPG and PNG). <a href="/robot/document">Learn More</a>.</td>
  </tr>
</table>

## 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.

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    <td width="180"><strong>No-Code Dashboard</strong></td>
    <td>Build, run, and manage robots through Maxun's visual interface. No coding required.</td>
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    <td><strong>API</strong></td>
    <td>Integrate Maxun's scraping and extraction capabilities into your applications. <a href="https://docs.maxun.dev/api/api"> Learn More</a>.</td>
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    <td><strong>SDK</strong></td>
    <td>Use Maxun programmatically for scraping, extraction, automation and more.<a href="https://docs.maxun.dev/sdks"> Learn more</a>.</td>
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    <td><strong>CLI</strong></td>
    <td>Create robots, trigger runs, and retrieve data from your terminal.<a href="https://docs.maxun.dev/category/cli"> Learn more</a>.</td>
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    <td><strong>MCP</strong></td>
    <td>Connect Maxun to AI agents through the Model Context Protocol.<a href="https://docs.maxun.dev/category/mcp"> Learn more</a>.</td>
  </tr>
</table>

## What Can You Build?

Teams use Maxun for [e-commerce price and stock monitoring](/usecases/ecommerce_automation), [market research](/usecases/market_research), [lead generation](/usecases/lead_generation), [real estate data](/usecases/real_estate), [content aggregation](/usecases/content_aggregation) and [academic research](/usecases/academic_research), as well as RAG pipelines and AI agents that need live web data.

## Sponsors

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    <td><a href="https://mangoproxy.com/?utm_source=github&utm_medium=partner&utm_campaign=getmaxun"><img src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/326b5b8f-6a2c-4aa2-94c8-6a29ae23f2ac" width="200" height="110" /></a></td>
    <td><a href="https://go.nodemaven.com/maxunbyopoct"><img src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/de295d94-61f4-4c97-88f8-cd45cbf3af84" width="200" height="80" /></a></td>
    <td><a href="https://www.testmuai.com/?utm_medium=sponsor&utm_source=maxun"><img src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6c96005b-85df-43e0-9b63-96aaca676c11" width="200" height="110" /></a></td>
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Continue to the next chapter to understand how Maxun works and how these capabilities are powered.