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maxun – Turn Any Site into a Structured API in Minutes

Founders can instantly scrape, crawl, and extract data without code, building reliable APIs for market research or product features. Ideal for teams needing fast, self‑hosted web data pipelines. 18k+ GitHub stars.

From the repo · “🔥 The open-source no-code platform for web scraping, crawling, search and AI data extraction • Turn websites into structured APIs in minutes 🔥 ”

intermediate⏱ 30 minutes💵 Free + open-source (no costs or subscriptions)
18,014 stars+141★ this week1,562 forksTypeScriptGuide quality 8/10 · reviewed Oct 5Updated 10/23/2026100% free · open source
What it is

Use Maxun to instantly turn websites into APIs that you can use in your app.

Real use case example

"A founder wants to get a list of product reviews from Amazon to feed into their e-commerce app. They use Maxun to quickly extract the reviews and turn them into a usable API. Now they can display reviews on their product pages without having to manually scrape them from Amazon every day."

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When to use it
  • •You need to integrate data from a website that doesn't provide an API
  • •You're building a web scraper or data extraction tool without extensive coding knowledge
  • •You want to convert web data into a usable format for your application or analysis
Ready-to-paste prompt
npx maxun init my-project && npm run dev
Heads up: Make sure you have Node.js 16 or higher installed, as maxun requires it to run
Saves to your device
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🛠️ Technical setup

Expect 20–40 minutes in a terminal — or let your AI agent drive it.

Try it instantly — no install
Claude Code
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/maxun && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/maxun/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/maxun/SKILL.md
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How maxun – Turn Any Site into a Structured API in Minutes works
Codeflow
Free to inspect

Maxun – Turn Any Site into a Structured API in Minutes is a very large TypeScript project (~72k lines across 212 code files). It is a full software project: use it through its install path rather than reading it end to end. Last commit this month, AGPL-3.0 license, no tests found.

Size
Very large codebase
~72k lines · 212 code files · days to read — use, don't read
Setup
Developer setup
A real software project. Use it via its install path; don't expect to read it all.
Runs on
Node.js · Docker
Needs API keys (.env)
TypeScript 95%JavaScript 5%
Where to start reading
  1. 1
    README.md
    Start here — what it does and how to install it
  2. 2
    src/App.tsx
    Where the program starts running
  3. 3
    package.json
    Dependencies and the commands it exposes
What's in each folder
src/Core code — the actual logic99 files
server/Backend / API84 files
docs/Documentation2 files
legacy/Archived / older material21 files
maxun-core/Folder14 files
browser/Folder5 files
public/Images & static assets20 files
.github/CI / automation (GitHub Actions)3 files
READMENo tests foundDocumentedNo CIDocker readyAGPL-3.0 licenseUpdated this month
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Details
Creator
getmaxun
Language
TypeScript
Category
devtools
Published
10/23/2023

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