Web Scraping Tool and Web Scraper API for Teams That Ship
- Status
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- Elapsed
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- Exit country
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- Browser used
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This console sends a real request and shows you the real response. Five live fetches per session, and the sample targets run as often as you like.
From a URL to the fields you asked for
You send a URL, a country, a render mode and a schema. You get back a status, the timing, the exit location and typed JSON built from the page. There is no document left over for you to parse and no browser open on anyone's laptop.
- Fetch through rotating datacenter and residential addresses in up to 90 countries
- Render in a real browser, wait for a selector, take a screenshot when you need proof
- Handle challenges, redirects and rate limits inside the request, with a retry on a fresh identity
- Extract with CSS, XPath or a plain English description of the fields
- Deliver the result in the response, or to a webhook on a schedule
Where this sits among scraping tools
| Kind of tool | Who it fits | Where it stops |
|---|---|---|
| Browser extension | One person collecting a list once | Runs on a laptop, no schedule, no volume, nothing your service can call |
| Desktop scraping software | An analyst repeating a weekly export | Manual runs, fragile parsers, no team access, no API |
| Open source framework | An engineering team that wants to own everything | You still supply proxies, browsers, unblocking and the on call rota |
| Scraping API | A team that needs data in production | One call, one monthly limit, infrastructure on our side |
The comparison with real costs is in open source scraping tools versus an API, including the cases where writing it yourself wins.
Teams that would rather ship their product
The five jobs in detail are on the web crawling tools page.
- Backend and data engineers who own a pipeline feeding a product feature and are tired of the weekly break.
- Price intelligence, market research and hiring analytics vendors whose product is the data itself.
- Agencies pulling search results and competitor pages across dozens of client accounts on one invoice.
- Marketplaces enriching catalogs with specs, images and identifiers from manufacturer pages.
The parts that break in a homegrown scraper, and what we do with them
Blocking
Address rotation alone stops working quickly, because the block reads your TLS fingerprint, header order and JavaScript execution. Every request carries a consistent browser identity, described on the web scraping proxy page, and the hardest version of this problem is covered by the Cloudflare scraping API.
Rendering
Many pages are an empty shell until the scripts run. Browser mode renders the page, waits for the selector you name and returns what a person would actually see. Pages that only exist on screen are covered on the screen scraper page.
Parsing
A redesign breaks selectors, not integrations. The schema is a parameter of the request, so you change one line and the next call is correct. The ai web scraper mode goes further and takes the field list in plain English.
Volume
Concurrency, queueing and retries are handled for you: 5 requests in parallel on Starter, 50 on Growth, 200 on Scale.
Three steps to the first row of data
- 1
Confirm your work email and collect your API key from the account.
- 2
Send one request with a URL and a schema, from curl, from python scraping tool code, or from the no code web scraper builder.
- 3
Point your job at the endpoint and pick the plan that matches your monthly volume on the best web scraping api pricing page.