Parse

Build an API to interact with any website.

Y CombinatorFall 2025ActiveB2BDeveloper ToolsAPIBig Data

What they do

Problem

Developers struggle to reliably and efficiently access data and functionality from websites that dont provide APIs, often resorting to slow, brittle scraping or browser automation.

Solution

Parse analyzes a websites underlying network requests to automatically generate API endpoints for interacting with that site without headless browsers.

Who it's for

Developers and engineering teams who need programmatic access to third-party websites for data extraction or automation.

Founders

Alex Forman

Founder

I've been obsessed with web automation since I was 12, when I taught myself to code building sneaker bots. That early experience showed me how broken traditional scraping tools were. I launched Parse in August, hit 30K users in 3 weeks, and dropped out of Berkeley Engineering to make it the best way to programmatically interact with the internet.

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