Alex P.

I'm Alex, the founder and lead engineer behind FetchLayer.

I've been building scrapers and web data infrastructure for 10+ years now. Everything from small scripts for internal tools to APIs handling a lot of traffic against websites that are constantly changing things, blocking requests, adding CAPTCHAs, rate limits, new bot detection, etc.

A lot of FetchLayer basically came from getting tired of solving the same problems again and again. Managing proxies, sessions, retries, broken selectors, platform changes — all the stuff you need to deal with before you can even get to the actual data you wanted in the first place.

So I built FetchLayer to put all of that behind one API. You ask for the data, you get structured JSON back, and you don't really have to care what's happening underneath.

Right now FetchLayer supports Reddit, Twitter/X, YouTube comments, App Store reviews and more, through both the API and MCP, so it works well for regular apps but also AI agents and tools.

I also write most of the technical content on this site. The guides and tutorials are mostly based on things I've actually had to solve while building FetchLayer, rather than just researching a topic and writing about it.

FetchLayer's open-source projects are on fetchlayer-dev, and my other projects/code are on github.com/IamAlexandros.