Why CrawlHub Exists
The open web is the largest under-utilized intelligence surface in existence. Every minute, brands, individuals, governments, communities, journalists, and adversaries publish signals on X, Telegram, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, and dozens of other public platforms.
Most of those signals never become actionable evidence — not because they're hidden, but because nobody had the infrastructure to collect them at the moment they mattered. CrawlHub is the infrastructure.
Five principles we hold the line on
Public data only
We never crawl behind a login wall. We never bypass platform safety mechanisms. We never collect data the platform has flagged as private. Every record we deliver is something you could see yourself in a logged-out browser.
Real-time over batch
Most legacy crawlers were built for nightly batches — collect today, analyze tomorrow. The signals that matter — viral complaints, leaked credentials, election narratives — appear and disappear in hours. Real-time is the only acceptable default.
Operators and engineers, equally
A great web-intelligence platform serves the analyst running their first query and the engineer integrating into a Snowflake pipeline. We build the dashboard and the API in lockstep, never one as an afterthought.
Transparent pricing
No "contact sales" to evaluate, no per-seat games, no minimum commitments hidden in PDFs. Pay-as-you-go starts at $1.79 per 1,000 records and scales down with volume. The pricing page tells you everything.
Useful refusal
Some workflows we will not support — even if the contract is large. Crawlers that target specific private individuals to harm them. Tooling for credential stuffing. Adversarial workflows against vulnerable groups. If the question is "can you build it for us," the honest answer is sometimes no.
Early. Independent. Building in the open.
CrawlHub is a small, focused team shipping a product we wished existed. We're not yet a multi-region, multi-hundred-employee enterprise vendor. We move fast, we talk to every customer ourselves, and we ship what they need next instead of what a roadmap committee approved last quarter.
If you want a vendor that picks up the phone, that's us today. If you want a vendor that runs your global FedRAMP-compliant intel program, talk to one of the 800-person companies. We'll get there — but not by pretending to be them now.