Web scraping API that handles headless browsers, proxies and anti-bot measures.
Kevin Sahin
Co-founder of ScrapingBee and author of The Java Web Scraping Handbook
@SahinKevin Paris, France3.4K followers$5M+ ARRDeveloper ToolsSaaS FoundersAcquirers & Indie Investors
About Kevin Sahin
Kevin Sahin is a French web scraping expert and the co-founder of ScrapingBee, the web scraping API he started with Pierre de Wulf in 2019.
Before ScrapingBee he worked at a small fintech startup doing invoice and banking data aggregation, which was acquired by a major French bank. He then wrote The Java Web Scraping Handbook and co-founded PricingBot with Pierre. At ScrapingBee he ran marketing, writing in-depth scraping guides that became the company's main acquisition channel.
ScrapingBee grew to over $5M ARR largely bootstrapped, with TinySeed support, before being acquired by the Oxylabs group in 2025. Kevin now looks to acquire developer-tool, API and data SaaS companies and speaks at events like MicroConf.
Products by Kevin Sahin
Revenue
Kevin Sahin has publicly reported $5M+ ARR (at exit) (as of 2025). Source
Exit story
by Kevin Sahin & Pierre de Wulf
- Revenue (monthly, log scale)
- First product
- Exit
- Started 2019
- 2019First product: Co-founded ScrapingBee with Pierre de Wulf
- 2025Exit: ScrapingBee acquired by Oxylabs
- 2025Revenue: Revenue ≈ $415K/month (self-reported)≈ $415K/mo fr.linkedin.com
Timeline
- 2019 — Co-founded ScrapingBee with Pierre de Wulf.
- 2025 — ScrapingBee was acquired by the Oxylabs group.
How Kevin builds
- Content and SEO can be a durable acquisition engine for developer tools.
- Interview users constantly in the early days.
- Bootstrap to keep control of the company.
Learn from Kevin Sahin
[book]
The Java Web Scraping Handbook
A practical guide to scraping the web with Java.
by Kevin Sahin
Kevin Sahin FAQ
Who is Kevin Sahin?
Kevin Sahin is the co-founder of ScrapingBee and author of The Java Web Scraping Handbook.
How big was ScrapingBee when it sold?
Kevin says the team bootstrapped it to more than $5M ARR before its 2025 acquisition by Oxylabs.
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