Anakin CLI

Command-line interface for Anakin.io's web scraping, search, and research API.

Requirements

• Python 3.10 or higher
• An Anakin API key (get one here)

Install

pip install anakin-cli

Quick Start

# Authenticate
anakin login --api-key "ak-your-key-here"

# Verify
anakin status

# Search the web
anakin search "python async best practices"

# Scrape a page to markdown
anakin scrape "https://example.com" -o page.md

# Extract structured data (AI-powered)
anakin scrape "https://example.com/product" --format json -o product.json

# Batch scrape multiple URLs
anakin scrape-batch "https://a.com" "https://b.com" -o batch.json

# Deep research (1-5 minutes)
anakin research "comparison of web frameworks 2025" -o report.json

Self-Hosted Mode

Use anakin-cli with a self-hosted AnakinScraper OSS instance:

# Start the OSS server
git clone https://github.com/AnakinAI/anakinscraper-oss.git && cd anakinscraper-oss && make up

# Scrape via your local instance (no API key needed)
anakin scrape "https://example.com" --api-url http://localhost:8080

# Or set it as your default
export ANAKIN_API_URL="http://localhost:8080"
anakin scrape "https://example.com"

Self-hosted mode supports scrape and scrape-batch. For search and research, use the hosted API with an API key.

Commands

Scrape Formats

The scrape command supports three output formats via --format:

# Default — clean page text
anakin scrape "https://example.com"

# AI-extracted structured data
anakin scrape "https://example.com/product" --format json -o data.json

# Full API response (for debugging)
anakin scrape "https://example.com" --format raw -o debug.json

Other scrape options

--browser          # Use headless browser (for JS-heavy sites)
--country CC       # Country code (default: us)
--session-id ID    # Session ID for authenticated scraping
--timeout SECS     # Polling timeout in seconds (default: 120)
-o, --output FILE  # Save output to file

Authentication

Get your API key at anakin.io/dashboard.

Option A — Login command (recommended):

anakin login --api-key "ak-your-key-here"

Option B — Environment variable:

export ANAKIN_API_KEY="ak-your-key-here"

If no key is configured, the CLI will prompt you to enter one interactively.

Error Handling

The CLI provides clear error messages for common issues:

All errors exit with code 1. Success exits with code 0.

Tips

• Always quote URLs that contain ?, &, or # — shells like zsh interpret these as special characters:

  # Wrong — zsh will fail with "no matches found"
  anakin scrape https://example.com/page?id=123
  
  # Correct
  anakin scrape "https://example.com/page?id=123"
  

• Use --browser for JavaScript-heavy sites (SPAs, dynamic content).
• Use -o to save output to a file. Without it, output goes to stdout.
• All progress/status messages go to stderr, so piping works cleanly:

  anakin scrape "https://example.com" | jq '.title'
  

Documentation

• API Docs — full endpoint reference
• LLM-friendly docs — plain text docs optimized for AI/LLM consumption

Support

• Discord: discord.gg/gP2YCJKH
• Email: support@anakin.io

License

MIT