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ScrapingBee

Web scraping API that handles proxies, headless browsers and anti-bot defenses

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ScrapingBee is a web scraping API that fetches public web pages on behalf of its users, handling proxy rotation, headless browser rendering, and anti-bot defenses. It is designed for teams that need to collect web data without maintaining their own proxy fleet, browser infrastructure, or scraping maintenance stack.

The platform offers an HTML API for raw page content, a Markdown Scraper for clean text output, AI Web Scraping that returns structured JSON from natural-language descriptions, and CSS/XPath extraction rules. JavaScript scenarios can trigger clicks, waits, and form fills before extraction, with screenshots available for debugging. Dedicated scraper APIs cover Amazon, Walmart, Google Search, YouTube, Fast Search, ChatGPT, and Gemini. Integrations include Python and Node.js SDKs, a CLI, an MCP server, and connections to n8n, Make, Zapier, LangChain, and various coding agents and IDEs such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and VS Code.

ScrapingBee is aimed at developers, data teams, and businesses working on AI applications, e-commerce monitoring, market intelligence, lead generation, fintech research, and cybersecurity workflows. It offers a free plan with 1,000 API credits and no credit card required, alongside paid plans that scale by monthly API credits and concurrent requests, with options for JavaScript rendering, rotating and premium proxies, geotargeting, screenshots, extraction rules, dedicated scraping APIs, and priority support.

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