Quickstart for Maxun

Maxun lets you build "robots" without writing code: point it at a target URL, record the clicks, scrolls and captures you want, and it replays those actions to extract structured data on a schedule. The stack is served across three ports on the same domain, the UI, a separate backend API, and MinIO object storage used to store captured screenshots. It's positioned as a self-hosted alternative to commercial web-scraping and RPA SaaS tools, keeping scraped data and recorded workflows on your own infrastructure. It supports three data-gathering modes described in its own terms as Extract, Scrape and Crawl, covering everything from single-page extraction to multi-page crawling. Login uses the admin email and password configured at deploy time

Deploy Maxun on Elestio

1. Open the Maxun deployment page and sign in, or create an account.
2. Choose a cloud provider, a region and a data center. Pick the region closest to your users for the lowest latency.
3. Choose an instance size. Elestio only lists the sizes that can run Maxun properly (at least 2 vCPU and 4 GB of RAM).
4. Choose your support plan and the maintenance window for system and software updates (times are in UTC).
5. Click Create Service. Maxun is deployed and ready in a few minutes, and you receive an email with the access details.

The full walkthrough with screenshots is in the installation guide.

Access Maxun

Open your service in the Elestio dashboard and go to the Overview tab. Click Display Admin UI to reveal the URL, username and password of your Maxun instance.

If the password field is blank, Maxun does not ship with a pre-created admin user: open the admin URL to start its setup. Software without a web interface, such as databases, is reached with the credentials and port listed in the same tab. See Admin UI and credentials.

Next steps

• Custom domain and SSL: point your own domain to Maxun (guide).
• Backups: new services follow a 3-2-1 backup strategy by default (backups).
• Updates: manage the Maxun version and update policy (software versions and updates).
• Learn Maxun: read the official Maxun documentation.