# Zenrows launches Crawl, a web crawler API that follows links and returns URLs and HTML

> Zenrows introduces Crawl, a web crawler API that takes a public URL, follows links to a user-specified depth, and returns all discovered URLs along with optional HTML content.

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- Beat: Extraction & Parsing · Evidence: Primary source · Type/significance: launch/3 · First seen: 2026-10-10T01:09:19.862280+00:00 · Updated: 2026-10-10T01:09:19.862280+00:00 · Edition: 2026-11-05
- Framing: model-written (headline, standfirst, why it matters, tags); source facts deterministic

## Briefing
- Zenrows: Zenrows introduces Crawl, a web crawler API that takes a public URL, follows links to a user-specified depth, and returns all discovered URLs along with optional HTML content.

## Why it matters
Zenrows is expanding from its proxy and anti-bypass roots into a broader data extraction platform. Crawl simplifies a common scraping workflow — link traversal — into a single API call, which could reduce the need for users to manage their own crawling logic and headless browsers. If it delivers on reliability, it may pull users away from more manual or less reliable crawling setups.

## Sources
- Primary source · Zenrows · 2026-10-09 — [Introducing Crawl: the most reliable web crawler API](https://www.zenrows.com/blog/introducing-crawl)

## Watch next
How does Crawl handle JavaScript-heavy sites and pagination compared to existing crawler APIs?

Topics: Zenrows, Crawl, web-crawling, api, link-extraction, html-extraction

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