Is AI Web Scraper - Reddit, Data Scraping, Google Maps & More safe?
AI Web Scraper sends the active page URL and HTML to instantapi.ai when you start a scrape.
When you run a scrape, the extension injects a script into the active tab to collect the current URL and page HTML. It then posts that page content, the requested extraction fields, and the API key to InstantAPI's retrieve endpoint so the service can return structured results.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.787. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read and change your data on every site you visit
<all_urls>
Store data in your browser
storage
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Start, monitor and manage your downloads
downloads
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed AI Web Scraper - Reddit, Data Scraping, Google Maps & More contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- instantapi.ai
AI Web Scraper - Reddit, Data Scraping, Google Maps & More sends data to instantapi.ai. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.