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  "markdown": "Original founder; exited after 2020 acquisition.\n\nDan Ni founded ScraperAPI in 2018. After leaving Wall Street to work as a freelance developer, he kept running into proxy and IP blocking problems on scraping jobs and built an API that handled them with almost no setup. He ran the company's early marketing before selling it to its current owners.\n\n- X: https://x.com/tldrdan\n\n## What Dan builds\n\n- [ScraperAPI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scraperapi.md), graded D, 52.1/100, in Web scraping \u0026 crawling. Web scraping API that fetches a URL through rotating proxies with optional JavaScript rendering and anti-bot bypass, and returns HTML, Markdown, text or parsed JSON. It has async jobs, a crawler, structured data endpoints and an MCP server. Original founder; exited after 2020 acquisition, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Zoltán Bettenbuk](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/zoltan-bettenbuk/), CTO named on official About; current tenure requires confirmation\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Dan Ni?\n\nDan Ni founded ScraperAPI in 2018. After leaving Wall Street to work as a freelance developer, he kept running into proxy and IP blocking problems on scraping jobs and built an API that handled them with almost no setup. He ran the company's early marketing before selling it to its current owners.\n\n### What does ScraperAPI (saas.group) make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists ScraperAPI from ScraperAPI (saas.group). Web scraping API that fetches a URL through rotating proxies with optional JavaScript rendering and anti-bot bypass, and returns HTML, Markdown, text or parsed JSON. It has async jobs, a crawler, structured data endpoints and an MCP server.\n\n### How are Dan's tools graded?\n\nScraperAPI is graded D, 52.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.failory.com/interview/scraper-api\n- https://x.com/tldrdan\n- https://www.scraperapi.com/about-us/\n- https://hu.linkedin.com/in/zoltanbettenbuk\n- https://x.com/zbettenbuk\n- https://www.scraperapi.com/\n- https://www.scraperapi.com/support/\n- https://dashboard.scraperapi.com/signup\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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