# Dan Ni

> Dan Ni is original founder; exited after 2020 acquisition. ScraperAPI on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key)
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)
- Updated: 2026-10-27

Original founder; exited after 2020 acquisition.

Dan 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.

- X: https://x.com/tldrdan

## What Dan builds

- [ScraperAPI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scraperapi.md), graded D, 52.1/100, in Web scraping & 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.

## Works with

- [Zoltán Bettenbuk](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/zoltan-bettenbuk/), CTO named on official About; current tenure requires confirmation

## Questions

### Who is Dan Ni?

Dan 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.

### What does ScraperAPI (saas.group) make?

Anchor 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.

### How are Dan's tools graded?

ScraperAPI is graded D, 52.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.failory.com/interview/scraper-api
- https://x.com/tldrdan
- https://www.scraperapi.com/about-us/
- https://hu.linkedin.com/in/zoltanbettenbuk
- https://x.com/zbettenbuk
- https://www.scraperapi.com/
- https://www.scraperapi.com/support/
- https://dashboard.scraperapi.com/signup

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