Manthan Koolwal

🐾 Pack Leader @Scrapingdog – Fetching data like a pro and chasing down the toughest scrapes. 🐕 Data nerd with a sense of humor. Woof!

[Manthan Koolwal @KoolwalManthan]

🚀 500+ customers.
💰 Bootstrapped. No VC.
💻 Just SEO, YouTube, and a fast AF SERP API.

Here’s everything we did to get here 👇

#SaaS #Bootstrapped

[Manthan Koolwal @KoolwalManthan]

@scrapingdog signups up 10% this week 📈

What moved the needle:
• Cleaned up site structure for better crawlability
• Removed dead pages dragging down SEO
• Faster APIs
• A few solid backlinks
• Started long-form YouTube content

Weirdly, we posted FEWER blogs than last month.

Foundation > content volume.

[Manthan Koolwal @KoolwalManthan]

@naval AI without APIs is like a 4-legged stool missing all 4 legs. Technically still a stool, practically useless.

[Manthan Koolwal @KoolwalManthan]

@webjuice_ie Interesting. We are also planning to move https://t.co/2B0prvFJ4q to Kadence Blocks from Elementor.

[Manthan Koolwal @KoolwalManthan]

🚀Just launched: TikTok Scraping API by @scrapingdog
Extract TikTok profiles, videos, hashtags & trends, at scale, without blocks.
✅ No proxy management
✅ Structured JSON output
✅ Simple REST API
Perfect for analytics tools, trend trackers & research platforms.

[Scrapingdog @scrapingdog]

Until the website throws a 403 error, CAPTCHA, verification code, or some random block at you.
That’s why Scrapingdog exists.

Send one API request.
Get clean, structured data back.
No proxy setup. No browser headache. No anti-bot.
Start scraping in minutes with 1000 free credits

[Scrapingdog @scrapingdog]

Scrapingdog weekly update is here and it's a big one:

Google Lite Search API latency dropped.
Screenshot API now supports format & quality parameters
TikTok Profile & Post Scraper APIs are LIVE on dashboard + docs

Faster APIs. More control.

[Manthan Koolwal @KoolwalManthan]

Bought a Kindle today.

Not for entertainment, but for building a habit.

In a world full of noise, the ability to sit, read, and think deeply is becoming rare.

Let’s see where this takes me.

If you had to recommend just ONE book, what would it be?

[Scrapingdog @scrapingdog]

We built a web scraping API for data engineers.

Someone used it to track flight prices for his entire extended family and WhatsApp alert them when prices drop.

Built it in a weekend. Zero scraping experience.

That's how you know your abstraction is actually working.

[Manthan Koolwal @KoolwalManthan]

Internet gave us information.
Mobile gave us attention.
AI gives us reasoning.

What will the next wave give us?

[Manthan Koolwal @KoolwalManthan]

The evolution of a web scraper:

Week 1: “Just fetch the HTML.”
Week 2: Proxies.
Week 3: Browser fingerprints.
Week 4: “Buy Now” button only appears when the stars align.

At this point, you’re not an engineer. You’re an astronomer with a grudge.
That’s why we built @scrapingdog.

[Manthan Koolwal @KoolwalManthan]

We just launched a ChatGPT Scraper API at @scrapingdog

One API call → clean JSON.

Use it to:
→ Benchmark LLMs (ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Claude)
→ A/B test prompts at scale
→ Build AI research datasets
→ Track how ChatGPT answers in your niche

[Manthan Koolwal @KoolwalManthan]

@samuel_spitz Perfect! But if you want to power this with fresh, real-time data, check out @scrapingdog.

[Jahanvi Gangwal @JahanviGangwal]

Why your scraper still gets blocked (even with IP rotation):

Modern anti-bot systems don’t care about IPs anymore.
They fingerprint your entire browser stack:
→ TLS → curl vs real Chrome
→ Canvas/WebGL → headless signals
→ Mouse movement → bot patterns
@Scrapingdog

[Manthan Koolwal @KoolwalManthan]

@scrapingdog just hit 1,000 active subscribers 🎉

Started as a side project. Now powering web data pipelines for 1K+ users worldwide.

No funding. Just product + execution.

Thank you to everyone who believed early. We're just warming up 🚀

[Scrapingdog @scrapingdog]

Your scraping pipeline just got faster. ⚡
Scrapingdog's general scraper now returns data in the format you need — clean links, images, markdown, or a page summary.
No extra parsing. No bloat. Just clean data, ready to use.
One API call → done.
Try it → https://t.co/36PMAFfdem

[Scrapingdog @scrapingdog]

If you're building anything with web data, this is where it usually starts.

We put together a simple walkthrough of our Google Search API.

Extract structured data directly from search results:
→ Organic results
→ Featured snippets
→ AI Overviews
→ People Also Ask

[Manthan Koolwal @KoolwalManthan]

Just shipped BOOST CONCURRENCY for every @scrapingdog paid user 🔥
→ Hit one button → Concurrency jumps 20% instantly → Lasts 1 hour → Free, once a month
For when your app traffic spikes and your scraper needs to keep up.
No upgrade. No support ticket. Just BOOST.

[Manthan Koolwal @KoolwalManthan]

@adrian_horning_ Try @scrapingdog , economical and fast.

[Manthan Koolwal @KoolwalManthan]

@ryancarson Ahh! same thing happened with us too. Trustpilot is honestly pathetic.