What is handinger?

Handinger is an API to fetch information from the Internet. It is built for product builders that have reliable and cheap scraping needs.

Some months ago, we were building the bookmark manager for fika.bar , so we needed a way to fetch metadata, screenshots, and the markdown content of websites. "Easy", we thought. But weeks later, we were building data pipelines, proxy rotation schemes and TLS fingerprinting. Not fun, and really not what we want to spend our time on: Our product was a bookmark manager, not a data extraction service, and yet, most of our efforts ended up there!

It turns out that the Internet has become a difficult place to extract information from. Most websites have implemented measures against it, which makes building products like fika.bar more difficult and expensive than it should be.

Handinger is our attempt to fix this. We extracted the work we've done for fika.bar and built it into a general purpose data extraction API.

Today, we have hundreds of customers using our API and happily building their products and AI agents.

What features does it have?

AI Prompting

Write prompts to get information from the web. You can ask questions, summarise, or extract any information on the internet.

Content extraction

You give Handinger a URL and it will return the markdown or html of the page. This is the base of the rest of the product and it basically attempts many ways to fetch the page, from cheaper to more expensive.

Metadata Extraction

I've built a service that can extract the most common metadata from websites (title, description, rss feeds, image...). It is based on the amazing metascraper with some custom additions.

Image

Finally, you can take screenshots from a page. This can be used to generate thumbnails or build any product that needs a visual representation of a page.