Robots

A robot is an AI-generated crawler compiled to Rust for a specific host and country combination. Robots understand a site's navigation, product pages, and data structure.

Creating a robot

Creating a robot starts with a robot build. You provide a URL from the target site and a country code. Extralt's AI analyzes the site and compiles a crawler.

curl -s -X POST "https://api.extralt.com/robot-builds" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EXTRALT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "url": "https://example-store.com/products/sample",
    "country": "US"
  }' | jq

Build lifecycle

Robot builds go through these stages:

Monitoring builds

Check build status by polling the build endpoint.

curl -s "https://api.extralt.com/robot-builds/$BUILD_ID" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EXTRALT_API_KEY" | jq '.status'

In the dashboard, you can track build progress in the Builds tab. When a build succeeds, the robot appears in the List tab.

Robot details

Each robot is unique to a host + country combination:

• Host: The domain the robot can crawl (e.g., example-store.com)
• Country: The country context for the extraction (affects language, pricing, availability) Robots are reusable. Once built, you can create multiple runs with the same robot.

Rebuilding a robot

If a site changes significantly and extraction quality degrades, you can trigger a new build for the same host + country. The new robot replaces the old one when the build completes.

What's next

• Running Extractions -- use your robot to extract data
• API Reference -- full robot build endpoints