Scrape vs Crawl vs Map: Picking the Right Anakin API for the Job

Scrape vs Crawl vs Map: Picking the Right Anakin API for the Job You have a website you need data from. You open the docs, see three APIs that all sound like they touch web pages, and have to make a choice. Scrape, Crawl, Map. The names feel intuitive until you actually need to pick one. This article breaks down what each one does, where it fits, and what the failure modes look like if you reach for the wrong one. What Each API Actually Does Scrape takes a single URL and returns clean, structure