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ScrapingBee

The Best Web Scraping API to Avoid Getting Blocked

ScrapingBee is a web scraping API that handles headless-browser rendering, proxy rotation, and anti-bot evasion so developers can request a URL and get back rendered content, screenshots, or structured data instead of building and maintaining their own scraping infrastructure.

Vendor's own claim

What ScrapingBee is

Vendor's own claim

ScrapingBee is a single-endpoint web scraping API: a client sends a GET request with a target URL and query parameters, and ScrapingBee returns rendered HTML, extracted data, or a screenshot, billing per successful request in "credits" that scale with the proxy tier and rendering options used. It also exposes several dedicated APIs for specific sites (Amazon, Google, Walmart, YouTube, ChatGPT) and a hosted remote MCP server so AI agents can call the same capabilities as tools.

What it can do

Vendor's own claim

Automatic proxy rotation with premium and stealth proxy tiers, plus geotargeting
AI-powered data extraction returning structured JSON or Markdown from a page
CSS/XPath selector-based extraction rules
Screenshot capture of rendered pages
Dedicated pre-built APIs for Amazon, Google, YouTube, Walmart, ChatGPT, and Gemini
Remote MCP server exposing scraping, search, and e-commerce tools to AI assistants
No-code integrations (n8n, Make, Zapier) and SDKs (Python, Node.js, LangChain)

Who it is for

Vendor's own claim

Developers and product teams that need web data for applications, internal tools, or AI-agent workflows and want to avoid running their own headless-browser and proxy infrastructure - named verticals include e-commerce, AI/LLM tooling, market intelligence, and fintech.

When to choose something else

Our read

Teams scraping protected sites at volume should model those multipliers against plan allowances. This research did not retrieve a self-serve OpenAPI specification or interactive explorer, so teams that require a machine-readable contract should verify current availability with the vendor.

Implementation considerations

Our read

Setup assessment: 5m

Getting an API key and making a first successful scrape request is a copy-paste exercise from the quickstart, with no OAuth flow or account approval step; the free 1,000-credit tier requires no credit card.

Prerequisites

ScrapingBee account and API key

Developer and agent access

From official docs

Authentication: API key, sent as an Authorization: Bearer header (recommended) or as an api_key query parameter (deprecated but supported)
Base URL: https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1
Rate limits: 30-second maximum request timeout (140,000 ms configurable default); credit cost varies by mode: 1 credit unrendered, 5 credits with JS rendering, 10-75 credits for premium/stealth proxies; actual cost returned in the Spb-auto-cost response header when Auto-Mode is used
Machine-readable API: No OpenAPI link in the reviewed source set

Single GET endpoint accepting a target URL plus parameters controlling JS rendering, proxy type, geotargeting, extraction rules, and screenshots
Dedicated Amazon, Google, YouTube, Walmart, ChatGPT, and Gemini scraping APIs

Published pricing

From official docs

Plan	Price	Included
Freelance	$49/mo	250,000 API credits
Startup	$99/mo	1,000,000 API credits
Business	$249/mo	3,000,000 API credits
Business +	$599/mo	8,000,000 API credits
Custom	Contact for pricing	Custom credit volume

Verify before you adopt it

No official YouTube channel link was found in the site footer or documentation, so no officialVideo is recorded
No machine-readable OpenAPI spec was found (docs reference a Postman collection instead)
GitHub star counts beyond the figures visible on the org's repo list at check time
A machine-readable OpenAPI specification was not included in the reviewed source set.