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Build your data product on Weld instead of building scrapers

Stop spending 70% of your time maintaining scraping infrastructure. Weld's API handles proxies, anti-detection, and parsing so you can focus on the product your customers actually pay for.

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The problems you're facing

Sound familiar? You're not alone.

Scraper maintenance is the whole job

You spend 60-70% of your time maintaining scrapers instead of building the product. Every platform update means debugging, patching, and redeploying.

Unpredictable proxy costs

Residential proxy pricing is per-GB. A spike in traffic or a change in page size can double costs overnight. Budgeting is impossible.

Scaling is a project in itself

Your self-built scrapers work for 100 profiles/day but break at 10,000. Scaling requires queue management, rate limiting, and retry logic you haven't built yet.

Months to market

You had the idea 6 months ago. You've spent 5 months building scraping infrastructure. The actual product — the UI, the API, the marketing — is still an afterthought.

How Weld solves this

One API, all platforms, pay per result

Eliminate the scraping layer

Replace your entire scraping infrastructure — proxies, anti-detection, result parsing, retry logic — with a single API call. Focus 100% on the product.

Predictable unit economics

Credits have a fixed per-result cost. Calculate exactly: 500 customers x 100 profiles/month = 50,000 results = Scale pack ($999/mo). Clean margin modeling.

Multi-platform from day one

Launch with all 11 platforms immediately — social, B2B, and review sites. Weld's unified response format means your frontend works the same regardless of platform. No more 'LinkedIn only' MVPs.

Example n8n workflows

Copy these patterns to get started in minutes

On-demand customer enrichment

Your product's API receives an enrichment request from a customer, routes it through Weld, and returns structured results.

  1. 1

    Webhook trigger

    Customer requests enrichment via your product's API

  2. 2

    Detect platform

    Auto-detect platform from the submitted URL

  3. 3

    Weld scrape

    POST /api/jobs/create with the appropriate scraper

  4. 4

    Transform

    Map Weld results into your product's data schema

  5. 5

    Store and respond

    Write to your database and return results to the customer

Nightly batch pipeline

Processes all pending enrichment requests from the day in a single batch run.

  1. 1

    Schedule trigger

    Runs every night at midnight

  2. 2

    Fetch pending requests

    Pull all unenriched records from your database

  3. 3

    Batch scrape

    Chunk into groups of 100 URLs, run Weld jobs for each batch

  4. 4

    Update records

    Write enriched data back to your database

  5. 5

    Alert

    Slack notification with pipeline stats

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Integrations

Connect your scraped data to your favorite tools

Google Sheets

Google Sheets

Auto-sync results to spreadsheets

Webhooks

Real-time delivery to any endpoint

REST API

Programmatic access for developers

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n8n

Connect to 1000+ apps

CSV/JSON

Download in standard formats

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Data Products