Add any website to your data pipeline
Why web data breaks most data pipelines
Internal systems have APIs. Websites do not. So teams write a scraper, add a cron job, bolt on a loader and hope nothing changes. Then a layout shifts, a site starts blocking, or the job re-inserts the same 50,000 rows, and someone loses a week.
MeshArc treats the web as a managed source.
- Reliable extraction: blocked pages retry through progressively stronger methods, and you are never charged for a failure.
- Only new and changed rows: every run is compared with the last, so your ingestion receives inserts, updates and deletes rather than full reloads.
- A schema you control: declare the fields you want and MeshArc fills them from the page’s own structured data, or from your own AI model on your own key.
- Loading included: rows are upserted by URL and content hash, with a change_class column, so every table carries its own history.
How it fits your ETL pipeline
- Extract: point MeshArc at a site or a section (/products/*). It discovers pages from the sitemap and follows links.
- Transform: map, filter and cast fields without code — price to a number to cents, published_at to a date, raw HTML dropped.
- Load: push to your destination after every run, previewing the shape against the last run before you save it.
18 destinations, on every plan
Pushing data costs nothing: you pay for the pages read, not for where the rows land.
| Kind | Where rows land |
|---|---|
| Object stores | Amazon S3 (and S3-compatible), Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, local disk |
| Warehouses | BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks |
| Databases | PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, ClickHouse |
| Vector stores | Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate, pgvector |
| Streams | Kafka, HTTP webhook |
Compared with building it yourself
| A scraper, a cron job and a loader | MeshArc | |
|---|---|---|
| Handles blocks and JavaScript | You build and maintain it | Automatic |
| Cost of failed requests | Your infrastructure bill | Never charged |
| Loads only changed rows | You write the diff logic | Built in |
| Alerts when a field breaks | Usually found on a broken dashboard | Automatic alert |
| Time to first table | Weeks | Minutes |
Popular sources
- Product catalogues and price lists
- Directories and listings sites
- Job boards and careers pages
- Government and regulatory publications
- News and press releases
- Documentation sites
Frequently asked questions
What is a web data pipeline?
A web data pipeline extracts data from websites, transforms it into a consistent structure and loads it into a database or warehouse on a schedule, like any other ETL pipeline. MeshArc runs the whole thing as a managed service.
Is MeshArc a data pipeline tool or a scraper?
Both. It is a web scraping API at its core, with the pipeline parts — scheduling, change detection, transformation and loading — included, so web sources do not need separate tooling.
Does it replace my existing ETL tools?
No. It becomes one more source for them. Many teams land MeshArc data in S3 or Postgres and let their existing pipeline take over.
Make the web one more reliable source
One project, one schedule, one destination. The first 1,000 credits are free.