Overview
Maxun is a web data platform for recording browser actions or defining extraction goals with AI, then running scraping, crawling, search, monitoring, and document-extraction workflows as reusable robots accessible via API, SDK, CLI, or MCP.
Features and best fit
Based on official documentation; not hands-on tested · Content checked:
Create extraction robots with recorded actions or AI instructions
Recorder Mode captures browser interactions while AI Mode creates extraction workflows from natural-language goals.
Expose scraping, crawling, search, and monitoring through APIs
Robots can scrape pages, crawl sites, search the web, monitor changes, and parse documents from the dashboard or programmatic interfaces.
For turning one-off web data scripts into reusable operational workflows
It fits teams that want scheduled collection, structured extraction, monitoring, and agent integration in one automation layer.
Sources: [2]
Separately verify site terms, privacy obligations, and rate limits
Technical access does not imply permitted use. Review target-site terms, robots policies, personal-data rules, and load limits.
Official sources
- [1]getmaxun/maxun repository(2026-09-20)
- [2]Maxun README(2026-09-20)
- [3]Maxun documentation(2026-09-20)
- [4]Maxun AGPL-3.0 license(2026-09-20)
Supplemental curator note
Maxun goes beyond one-off scraping by saving browser workflows as reusable robots that can be run from the dashboard, API, SDK, CLI, or MCP. Web extraction still requires attention to site terms, robots policies, personal data, and rate limits.
Try it in 3 steps
- 1
Get the source
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/getmaxun/maxun.git - 2
Enter the repository
cd maxun - 3
Check the official steps
Continue with the commands in the README Installation, Quick Start, or Getting Started section.
find . -maxdepth 1 -iname 'README*' -exec sed -n '1,220p' {} \; -quit
Growth
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17,509 Stars
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Development activity
Last 90 days · weekly
- Commits (last 30 days)
- 230
- Open PRs
- 30
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GitHub Topics
- automation
- no-code
- scraper
- web-scraper
- web-scraping
- api
- browser-automation
- playwright
- self-hosted
- robotic-process-automation
- rpa
- agents
- Stars
- 17,509
- Forks
- 1,510
- Watchers
- 90
- Open issues
- 74
- Contributors
- 47
- Primary language
- TypeScript
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Repository last updated
- Sep 19, 2026
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