Yellow Cake provides an end‑to‑end API that lets developers retrieve specific information from any website by supplying a URL and a natural‑language prompt. The service handles full‑page rendering, authentication, and throttling, returning structured data in real time, enabling quick integration of web‑scraping capabilities without building custom scrapers.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Developers often need to gather specific information from diverse websites, but building and maintaining custom scrapers is time‑consuming, especially when sites require authentication, have rate limits, or present dynamic content.
Solution
Yellow Cake offers an end‑to‑end web‑fetch API that extracts structured data from any site using just a URL and a natural‑language prompt. The service automatically navigates pages, handles authentication for gated content, and respects throttling limits, returning results in flexible formats such as JSON or streaming SSE. By abstracting crawling, parsing, and data cleaning, the API lets developers integrate live web data into applications with minimal code. Access is provided via an instant API key, and developers can start making calls directly from provided code snippets.
Target Audience
Primary customers are software developers and data engineers building automation, analytics, or AI agents that require up‑to‑date web information across domains such as finance, e‑commerce, and marketing.
Features
- Single‑request extraction: supply a URL and descriptive prompt to retrieve targeted data
- Built‑in authentication handling for password‑protected or paywalled sites
- Dynamic return types including JSON objects and real‑time readable streams (SSE)
- Automatic throttling management to avoid rate‑limit violations
- Full‑page crawling that intelligently discovers relevant content across site navigation
- Simple integration with ready‑to‑copy code snippets for JavaScript and other languages