# Dan Ni (slim)

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

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- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-10-27
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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.

- 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.

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

Anchor Terminal lists ScraperAPI from ScraperAPI (saas.group).

### 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

These 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.