ScrapeOwl

A simple and powerful web scraping API that allows you to manage proxies, headless browsers, and HTML parsing.

Summary

ScrapeOwl is a web scraping API that extracts specific page elements using CSS or XPath selectors. You can manage JavaScript rendering via headless Chrome, execute custom scripts, and capture full page screenshots. The service supports residential proxies with geotargeting across fifteen countries and sticky sessions for sequential requests. Integration is available through a standard REST endpoint or a proxy gateway.

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ScrapeOwl

ScrapeOwl is a web scraping API and residential proxy network that extracts page elements using CSS or XPath selectors. Developers access it via a REST endpoint or proxy port to manage headless browsers, JavaScript rendering, and IP rotation.

Starting from$29 /mo

ScrapeOwl User Reviews

ScrapeOwl offers a comprehensive range of web scraping and data collection products, from proxies to data sets and data APIs.

User Review Summary

ScrapeOwl is simple and easy to use for developers and data scientists looking to scrape large numbers of pages and extract targeted site elements. Unlike other scraping tools, this scraping API has the ability to run custom JS prior to content extraction, and offers tools to select page elements. The tool allows you to set up the location to evade limits, which can help gather local content. This tool is the best choice for individual professionals, small and medium-sized companies.

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Ideal Use Cases

ScrapeOwl is a web scraping API and proxy service used to extract specific page elements via CSS or XPath selectors. Developers access the tool through a REST API endpoint or a proxy gateway.

Ideal Use Cases

E-commerce & price monitoring: residential proxies at 10+ credits evade retail site detection
JavaScript-heavy sites & SPAs: headless Chrome rendering at 5 credits executes client-side code
Multi-step flows & logged-in sessions: sticky sessions allow reusing the same IP for sequential requests
Screenshots & visual monitoring: full-page screenshot parameter available for debugging or archiving

Poor Use Cases

Large-scale crawling: costs up to 25 credits per request for residential JS pages
Real-time, low-latency lookups: wait_for parameters and JS rendering introduce processing delays
Mobile apps & mobile-only content: no documented mobile-specific IP or device emulation options
Sneaker & ticket purchasing bots: proxy mode beta lacks the high-speed unblocking needed for drops

Performance

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Assuming average page size is 250kb

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E-Commerce

News Media

Entertainment

Job Advertising

Real Estate

SERPs

Domain	Feature	Success Rate	Avg. Success Latency	API Credits	Provider Plan	CPM
aliexpress.com	-	100%	13.0s	1 credit	Startup ($99/month)	$99
amazon.com	-	85%	13.9s	1 credit	Startup ($99/month)	$99
apple.com	JS Rendering	100%	6.9s	10 credits	Business ($249/month)	$830
costco.com	JS Rendering	97%	13.0s	10 credits	Business ($249/month)	$830
target.com	-	94%	13.6s	1 credit	Startup ($99/month)	$99
walmart.com	JS Rendering	93%	16.6s	10 credits	Business ($249/month)	$830
zalando.co.uk	JS Rendering	99%	10.0s	10 credits	Business ($249/month)	$830

Features

Feature	API Credit	Description
Rendering`render_js`	5	Runs headless Chrome to execute JavaScript.
Residential`premium_proxies`	10	Routes the request through residential IPs.
Rendering + Residential`premium_proxies`	25	Residential IPs with JavaScript rendering.
Country`country`	10	Selects the exit country by ISO code.
Sticky Sessions`session`	10	Reuses the same IP across requests.
Browser Wait`wait_for`	5	Waits a delay or for a selector before returning.

Geotargeting

Geotargeting uses the country parameter, documented only alongside premium_proxies: true. No country is reachable at the product's normal 1-credit datacenter rate; every geotargeted request costs 10 credits, or 25 credits with render_js.

Premium Countries Extra cost
Brazil	Mexico
Canada	Netherlands
France	Russia
Germany	Spain
Greece	Sweden
Israel	United Kingdom
India	United States
Italy
… and many more countries

ScrapeOwl Plans

Free

1,000 API credits

Try For

Free

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Bootstrap

250,000 API credits
10 concurrent requests

Starting from

$29/mo

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Startup

1,000,000 API credits
25 concurrent requests

Starting from

$99/mo

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Business

3,000,000 API credits
50 concurrent requests

Starting from

$249/mo

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Integrating ScrapeOwl

Developers connect via a REST API endpoint using JSON payloads or through a proxy gateway. Authentication requires an API key, which is passed either in the JSON request body or as a credential for the proxy port.

curl -X POST https://api.scrapeowl.com/v1/scrape \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY", "url": "https://httpbin.org/ip" }'

The proxy gateway uses the hostname proxy.scrapeowl.com on port 9000. For authentication, the username is set to scrapeowl and the API key serves as the password. Parameters are passed through the proxy connection signature.

curl -x "http://scrapeowl:YOUR_API_KEY@proxy.scrapeowl.com:9000" -k "https://httpbin.org/ip"

import requests

payload = {
    "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "url": "https://httpbin.org/ip",
}

response = requests.post("https://api.scrapeowl.com/v1/scrape", json=payload)
print(response.text)

Examples