Kadoa
Kadoa is an AI-powered tool designed to automate web scraping. Its key feature is to enable no-code, maintenance-free data extraction and transformation, making...
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What is Kadoa?
Kadoa is an AI-powered web data extraction platform that lets users describe the data they need in plain language and instantly get structured results from any website. The playground is a free, interactive environment where anyone can test this capability without writing code: you enter URLs, specify what fields to extract (products, prices, company info, filings, etc.), and Kadoa’s AI agents generate and run the extraction workflow automatically.
The tool uses LLM-based semantic understanding to analyze a website’s DOM, infer the meaning of elements, and generate robust selectors and transformation logic. Instead of calling an LLM for every row, Kadoa uses AI to build a specialized scraper that can be reused and adapted when sites change, making it both fast and cost-efficient at scale. The playground exposes the full extraction pipeline—URL source configuration, field definition, extraction, validation, and data output—in a simple UI that analysts, investors, and developers can use directly.
Key features in the playground include: drag-and-like field definition with examples, multi-URL and URL-list sources, generated URL patterns (e.g., product IDs, search pages), proxy location configuration, structured output as JSON, and live previews of extracted records. For more advanced users, the same capabilities are available via SDK and API, with workflow versioning, team sharing, and integration into data pipelines and AI agent systems.
Kadoa is designed for finance teams, investment analysts, data scientists, and engineering teams that need reliable, compliant web data for research, models, and AI agents. The playground is ideal for demos, proofs-of-concept, and quick experiments with real websites, while the full platform adds enterprise-grade features like audit logs, compliance controls, and large-scale scheduling.
Kadoa pricing
Pricing model: Freemium
Kadoa offers a free tier that includes access to the playground and a limited number of extractions and workflows for testing and small projects. Paid plans are organized around solo/professional users, teams, and enterprise customers, with higher monthly extraction limits, more workflows, team collaboration features, priority support, and advanced compliance controls. The platform also provides API and SDK access across plans, with enterprise agreements covering custom SLAs, volume pricing, and dedicated support.
Kadoa pros
- No coding required to create complex scrapers
- Plain-language description of desired data
- AI automatically generates and adapts selectors
- Handles dynamic, JavaScript-heavy websites
- Supports multi-URL and URL-list sources
- Can generate URLs from patterns and placeholders
- Built-in proxy location configuration
- Structured JSON output by default
- Live preview of extracted records
- Reuses scrapers instead of calling LLM per row
- Fast extraction after initial AI setup
- Works for products, filings, company pages, and more
- SDK and API for full automation and integration
- Team workflows and sharing for organizations
- Handles PDFs on websites with OCR and VLM extraction
- Confidence scoring and data validation built-in
- Designed with compliance and auditability in mind
- Scales from a few pages to thousands of URLs
Kadoa cons
- Playground is primarily for testing, not production at scale
- Some advanced configuration requires API or SDK knowledge
- Complex custom transformations may need manual workflow edits
- Dependent on AI’s interpretation of ambiguous pages
- Occasional site changes may require retraining workflows
- Free tier limits on extraction volume and workflows
- Enterprise features require paid team/enterprise plans
- Reliance on external websites’ terms of service and blocking
Frequently asked questions about Kadoa
What does the Kadoa playground do?
The playground is a free, interactive environment where you can describe the data you need, enter URLs, and instantly see structured extraction results without writing any code. It runs the same AI-powered extraction engine as the full platform, letting you test sources, define fields, and preview output in real time.
Do I need programming skills to use Kadoa?
No. In the playground, you describe what you want in plain language and configure fields using examples and simple options. All scraping logic, selectors, and transformations are generated automatically by Kadoa’s AI agents.
What types of websites can Kadoa extract from?
Kadoa works on most public websites, including e-commerce sites, company pages, news portals, regulatory filing databases, and research repositories. It handles static HTML, JavaScript-rendered content, and pages with complex structures like tables and charts.
Can Kadoa handle pages with PDFs?
Yes. Kadoa can locate and download PDFs from websites, perform OCR and visual-model extraction from tables, charts, and other complex structures, and normalize the results into your defined schema. This is especially useful for filings, reports, and disclosures.
How does Kadoa avoid calling an LLM for every row?
Kadoa uses LLMs to semantically understand the page and generate a specialized scraper (selectors, transformation logic, and validation rules). That scraper is then reused for all rows, so subsequent extractions are fast and cost-efficient without per-row LLM calls.
Can I use Kadoa in automated pipelines?
Yes. The same extraction capabilities available in the playground are exposed via API and SDK, allowing you to create workflows programmatically, schedule extractions, integrate with databases, and connect to AI agents and data platforms.
What output formats does Kadoa support?
By default, Kadoa returns structured data as JSON matching your defined schema. Through the API, SDK, and workflow configuration, you can further transform and route this data to CSV, databases, or custom endpoints as needed.
Does Kadoa respect website terms and compliance?
Kadoa is designed with compliance in mind, including audit logs, team controls, and configurable proxy locations. Users are still responsible for ensuring their use of any website respects its terms of service and applicable laws, but Kadoa provides the infrastructure to support compliant operations.
What happens when a website changes its layout?
Kadoa’s AI can detect significant changes and adapt selectors and extraction logic. For complex changes, you may need to review and lightly adjust the workflow, but Kadoa aims to minimize manual maintenance compared to traditional hand-coded scrapers.
Is there a free tier or trial?
Yes. The playground is freely accessible and includes a limited number of extractions and workflows for testing. Paid plans unlock higher volumes, more workflows, team features, and advanced support, with enterprise options for large-scale, compliance-heavy use cases.