The completely redesigned Crawlbase Dashboard is here, and it is more than a fresh coat of paint. It rethinks how you manage your crawling projects, track usage, and scale your data operations from one calm control center. Whether you are an experienced user or just kicking off your first crawl, the new workspace is built to help you understand your data faster and act on it with confidence.
This post is a friendly tour of what changed and where everything lives now. We will walk through managing your API tokens, reading your usage at a glance, organizing your projects across every Crawlbase product, and getting your first successful request out the door quickly. By the end you should know exactly where to click when you log in.
What the new dashboard is
The dashboard is your single home for everything Crawlbase. It is the place you go to grab a token, fire a test request, watch how your crawls are performing, check your limits, and reach the rest of the product family without hunting through separate pages. The redesign keeps that scope but presents it in a cleaner, more readable layout, so the thing you need is usually one glance or one click away rather than buried in a menu.
The first thing you notice on login is a modern, uncluttered interface designed for maximum readability. Beyond the look, the workspace now leans on real-time charts and filterable data, so you can drill into your usage and monitoring views the moment a question comes up instead of exporting logs to answer it later.
Three wins you feel right away
The redesign focuses on three core improvements to your daily workflow, and you feel all three within the first few minutes:
- Faster setup. Projects get up and running in significantly fewer steps, so the path from sign-in to your first crawl is short.
- Clearer usage data. Transparent charts show how your requests are performing, so you can read the health of a project at a glance rather than guessing.
- Billing at a glance. Your limits and billing status sit right in the main view, so you always know where you stand and never get surprised by a service interruption.
Each of these targets a real pain point from the old experience: setup that took too many hops, usage you had to dig for, and billing that lived a few clicks away from where you worked. The new layout pulls all three into the open.
Managing your API tokens
Your token is the key to every request, so the dashboard keeps it front and center. From the main view you can find your token, copy it into your code or a tool, and get straight to a test call without wandering through settings. Crawlbase uses tokens to separate normal requests from JavaScript requests, and the dashboard makes that distinction visible so you always know which kind of traffic you are sending.
Because the token is so easy to reach, the gap between signing in and making a real API call is small. You grab the key, point it at a URL, and confirm the response, all from one place. If you want a refresher on the mechanics of a first call, our walkthrough on how to extract data using the Crawlbase Crawler picks up where the dashboard leaves off.
Reading your usage at a glance
Once requests start flowing, the Usage Overview becomes the part of the dashboard you live in. It gives you a clear, real-time read on how your crawling is going without any spreadsheet work on your side.
The overview surfaces the numbers that actually matter day to day:
- Total requests. See the volume you have sent across a chosen period so you can spot spikes, lulls, and trends.
- Success rates. Watch how reliably your requests are coming back, the single best signal of a healthy crawl.
- Request type breakdown. Separate JavaScript requests from regular ones, since the two carry different credit costs and it helps to see where your usage is going.
Advanced filters let you narrow these views by the dimensions you care about, so you can move from a high-level summary down to the detail behind a single change in behavior. The result is monitoring you can read in seconds and trust enough to act on.
The usage you watch in the dashboard is generated by the Crawlbase Crawling API, which handles JavaScript rendering, IP rotation, and CAPTCHA challenges for you so more of your requests land as successes. You start with 1,000 free requests and pay only for the ones that succeed, and every call shows up in the same Usage Overview you just toured.
Organizing your projects in one place
Most teams use more than one Crawlbase product, and the old experience scattered them. The redesign fixes that with a unified left-hand navigation that connects the entire product family in a single workspace. Instead of jumping between disconnected screens, you switch context from one menu and your projects stay organized around it.
The unified view brings every product and your custom scrapers together, including:
- The Crawling API for synchronous requests with rendering, rotation, and CAPTCHA handling built in.
- The async Crawler for large jobs that run in the background and return results through webhook callbacks.
- The Smart AI Proxy for routing your own stack through rotating, intelligent proxy infrastructure.
- Cloud Storage for keeping crawled results without standing up your own bucket.
- The Crawlbase MCP Server for feeding real-time web data straight to your AI tools and agents.
- Custom scrapers such as the Facebook and LinkedIn scrapers, alongside the rest of your work.
Two more areas round out the workspace. Affiliate earnings give you full visibility and control over what you make by referring new users to Crawlbase, and support is reachable right from the interface, with help tied to the product you are actually asking about. Everything you manage now sits under one roof.
Getting started fast
Easier onboarding is one of the headline goals of the redesign, and it shows up as a shorter, clearer path for new users to make their first API call. The flow steers you toward a token and a test request quickly, so your first taste of the platform is a working response rather than a setup checklist.
This update is fully available to both new and existing Crawlbase users at the same time, so there is nothing to opt into and no waiting list. Everyone gets the improved interface and the new monitoring features together. You can also open our tutorials directly from the dashboard to pick up practical data extraction methods without leaving your workspace.
The best way to settle in is to take a quick tour of the interface, see where your favorite tools have moved, and explore the new monitoring views. For a wider sense of how this fits into a real workflow, our guide to building a scalable web data pipeline shows where the dashboard sits in the larger flow from request to stored, structured data.
Scraping responsibly
A cleaner control center makes it easier to keep good habits as you scale. Collect public data, respect each site's terms of service and robots.txt, and keep your request rate reasonable so you are a polite visitor rather than a burden. When the data involves personal information, handle it in line with regulations like GDPR and CCPA. The dashboard's usage views help here too, since watching your volume and success rates is part of staying within sensible, sustainable limits.
Key takeaways
- One cleaner control center. The redesigned dashboard unifies tokens, usage, projects, billing, and support in a single readable workspace.
- Three wins up front. Faster setup, clearer usage data, and billing at a glance address the biggest friction points from the old experience.
- Usage you can read in seconds. The Usage Overview shows total requests, success rates, and a JavaScript versus regular breakdown, with advanced filters to drill in.
- Every product in one nav. A unified left-hand menu connects the Crawling API, async Crawler, Smart AI Proxy, Cloud Storage, MCP Server, and custom scrapers, plus affiliate earnings and support.
- Available to everyone now. New and existing users get the new interface and monitoring at the same time, with a shorter path to a first successful call.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What is the new Crawlbase Dashboard?
It is the redesigned home for everything Crawlbase: a single workspace where you manage API tokens, watch real-time usage, organize projects across every product, check your limits and billing, and reach support. The redesign keeps the same scope as before but presents it in a cleaner, more readable layout so the thing you need is usually one glance or one click away.
Do I need to do anything to get the new dashboard?
No. The update is fully available to both new and existing users at the same time, so there is nothing to enable and no waiting list. Just log in to your Crawlbase Dashboard and you will see the new interface and monitoring views right away.
Where do I find my API token?
Your token sits front and center in the main view, ready to copy into your code or a tool. Because it is so easy to reach, the gap between signing in and making your first real API call is small: grab the key, point it at a URL, and confirm the response, all from one place.
What does the Usage Overview show?
The Usage Overview gives you a real-time read on your crawling, including total requests, success rates, and a breakdown of JavaScript requests versus regular ones. Advanced filters let you narrow the view down to the detail behind any change, so you can move from a high-level summary to a specific cause in seconds.
Which products can I manage from the dashboard?
A unified left-hand navigation connects the whole product family in one place: the Crawling API, the async Crawler, the Smart AI Proxy, Cloud Storage, the Crawlbase MCP Server, and custom scrapers such as the Facebook and LinkedIn scrapers. You can also track affiliate earnings and reach product-aware support from the same interface.
How do I get started quickly?
Onboarding steers new users toward a token and a test request in significantly fewer steps, so your first action is a working response rather than a long setup. Take a short tour to see where your tools have moved, open the built-in tutorials for practical methods, and you will be making successful calls fast.
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