Irmu
A web scraping API platform for developers, the official website states that it provides capabilities such as JavaScript rendering, screenshot taking, anti-scraping processing, and AI structured extraction. It can obtain clean data from web pages or third-party interfaces with a single REST request and supports SDKs in multiple languages.
Updated: 2026-10-27
What is Irmu?
Irmu's official website positions itself as 「The web scraping API built like infrastructure」, combining the tasks that usually require separate handling of proxies, headless browsers, screenshot services, and HTML parsing scripts into a unified REST API. The official website emphasizes that it is targeted at developers, offering official SDKs for Python, Node, PHP, Go, Java and other languages, and adopting the billing principle of 「no service, no charge」.
Who is it for?
- Technical teams that need to regularly crawl product prices, reviews or market trends
- Engineers who want to automatically convert HTML into structured data without writing parsing scripts by hand
- Marketing teams that use ChatGPT or Google AI Overview data for brand monitoring
- Developers who need full-page screenshots or data collection from platforms like Booking.com
Key features
6Web Scraping and Rendering
The official website states that the GET /crawl interface renders JavaScript by default using a real headless Chrome and sends requests via residential IPs to reduce the probability of being blocked.
AI Extraction
The official website states that by adding the `ai_query` parameter to the crawling request, you can directly return JSON that conforms to the field structure instead of the full page HTML.
Browser Recipes
The official website states that the POST /crawl endpoint can execute scripted sessions such as clicking, inputting, scrolling, and extracting fields, costing 30 credits per use.
Screenshot API
The official website states that the GET /screenshot endpoint can capture full-page scrolling screenshots, return base64-encoded JPEG images, and support device emulation and geolocation.
Third-Party Data APIs
The official website provides specific endpoints such as ChatGPT, Google AI Overview, and Booking.com, which return answers and cited sources in JSON format.
Geotargeting & Stable Billing
The official website states that it supports geotargeting by country, region, or city, and all non-serviceable requests are not charged.
How to use Irmu
- The official website states that the free version offers 200 credits per month without requiring card binding.
- First, use a real URL to successfully run crawling and ai_query, and confirm that the returned structure meets your requirements.
- Requests involving JavaScript rendering or residential IPs consume more credits.
- The official website recommends disabling rendering for static pages to control credit usage.
- For structured extraction, it is recommended to clearly specify the field names and types.
- The official website states that the returned results will include the types and confidence levels.
- You can integrate your own model if necessary.
- When you need to track data changes over time, use scheduled tasks in conjunction with the API, noting that the official platform counts 404 or 500 status codes as billable requests.
- Before moving to production, check the success rate telemetry by domain in the dashboard.
- The official website states that this metric shows the actual availability of each target site.
Traffic & popularity
Data month Sep 2026
Irmu receives about 17 visits per month.
Monthly visits
4 monthsTraffic sources
- Direct35.5%
- Search29.9%
- Referrals13.7%
- Social6.3%
- Affiliates5.9%
- Other8.6%
Top countries
- Germany100.0%
Estimated from third-party traffic data.
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