WebScrapingAPI
A data platform that makes collecting and preparing web data easy through efficient, reliable, and flexible SaaS solutions.
Summary
WebScrapingAPI is a REST endpoint that manages proxy routing, browser rendering, and anti-bot bypass for public web targets. You can execute JavaScript for dynamic sites and target specific locations using country, city, or ASN parameters. The tool also includes extraction rules for automated data parsing. It supports GET and POST requests with configurable timeouts up to 120,000ms.
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WebScrapingAPI User Reviews
WebScrapingAPI offers a comprehensive range of web scraping and data collection products, from proxies to data sets and data APIs.
User Review Summary
WebScrapingAPI.com is a top a data platform that makes collecting and preparing web data easy through its SaaS offering. It offers a set of efficient, reliable, and flexible solutions, allowing you to focus on the data itself.
Trustscore 3.1 | 7 reviews
Inconsistent responses
I didn't have any problems getting started and setting up my first request, despite the shallow documentation. Once I added more requests to one of my scheduled jobs, the errors became more frequent. Support did respond to my messages fairly quickly but they weren't able to point me to a solution to the issues. If there were more debugging resources, logs, or more thorough documentation I wouldn't consider switching providers but unfortunately, it's the only option for me.
Extremely poor success rate for popular…
Extremely poor success rate for popular URLs. Slow and poor customer service. My concurrent connections are stuck at 50% being used when they aren't used at all. Worthless API. Use any other provider out there. This one is beyond buggy.
Herramienta profesional para escrapear contenido
Es una herramienta muy profesional que te permiter extraer información para cualquier contenido. Especialmente interesante para mi, en cuanto a las opiniones de google, mapas e imagenes
Me resultó muy complicado de utilizar. Se trabaja mediante API, y en nuestro procesos de trabajo no funcionaba bien.
WebScrapingAPI
WebScrapingAPI is a scraping tool that handles proxy routing, bot detection, and browser rendering for public web targets. Developers reach the service via a REST endpoint, which manages JavaScript execution and data extraction on their behalf.
Ideal Use Cases
WebScrapingAPI is a scraping service accessed via a REST API endpoint. It retrieves page responses by managing routing and browser rendering for dynamic or JavaScript-heavy websites.
Ideal Use Cases
- E-commerce & price monitoring: Built-in anti-bot handling covers retail site protection.
- Travel & hotel pricing: JS rendering captures fares on dynamic travel portals.
- JavaScript-heavy sites & SPAs: Browser-based rendering handles client-side execution.
- Search engine results (SERP): Dedicated search API features for Google and Bing.
Poor Use Cases
- Real-time, low-latency lookups: Browser rendering is documented as more expensive and slower.
- Large-scale crawling: Costs scale per-request rather than by raw bandwidth.
- Multi-step flows & logged-in sessions: No documented session-pinning or cookie-persistence parameter.
- Mobile apps & mobile-only content: Lacks documented parameters for mobile-specific carrier IPs.
Performance
Assuming average page size is 250kb
| Domain | Feature | Success Rate | Avg. Success Latency | API Credits | Provider Plan | CPM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aliexpress.com | - | 27% | 19.6s | 0 credits | Pro ($599/month) | $1,331 |
| walmart.com | - | 19% | 18.1s | 0 credits | Pro ($599/month) | $1,331 |
Features
| Feature | API Credit | Description |
|---|---|---|
Renderingrender_js | - | Render the page in a browser before returning. |
Countrycountry | - | Pick the exit country by two-letter code. |
Geotargeting
Geotargeting is set with the country parameter (optionally refined by city, state and asn). All 195 network countries are included at the plan's normal one-request cost; no premium geo pool or geo surcharge is documented.
| Standard Countries No extra cost | |
|---|---|
| Algeria | Comoros |
| Angola | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Benin | Republic of the Congo |
| Botswana | Cote D'ivoire |
| Burkina Faso | Djibouti |
| Burundi | Egypt |
| Cabo Verde | Equatorial Guinea |
| Cameroon | Eritrea |
| Central African Republic | Eswatini |
| Chad | Ethiopia |
| … and many more countries | |
WebScrapingAPI Plans
Free
- 5,000 API credits
- 5 concurrent requests
Starter
- 7,000 API credits
- 20 concurrent requests
Basic
- 20,000 API credits
- 20 concurrent requests
Standard
- 45,000 API credits
- 50 concurrent requests
Advanced
- 100,000 API credits
- 100 concurrent requests
Premium
- 180,000 API credits
- 200 concurrent requests
Pro
- 450,000 API credits
- 500 concurrent requests
Integrating WebScrapingAPI
Developers connect to the service via a REST API endpoint. Requests are authenticated by passing the apikey parameter along with the URL-encoded target address.
curl --get "https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v2" \ --data-urlencode "api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>" \ --data-urlencode "url=https://webscrapingapi.com/"
Authentication is handled by passing the apikey as a query parameter to the REST endpoint. Developers provide the target URL via the url parameter and append additional options like country or renderjs as URL-encoded query strings.
import requestsAPI_KEY = '<YOUR_API_KEY>'SCRAPER_URL = 'https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v2'TARGET_URL = 'https://webscrapingapi.com/'PARAMS = {"api_key": API_KEY,"url": TARGET_URL,}response = requests.get(SCRAPER_URL, params=PARAMS)print(response.text)
Examples