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Web Crawlers · Reviewed 26 Oct 2026

ScraperAPI

A web scraping API that handles proxies, CAPTCHAs, and browsers.

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ScraperAPI at a glance
180.5KEstimated total trafficModeled monthly visits2.4KRanking keywordsPublic search sample98/100Technical health15 pages checked0Referring domainsLive backlink summary

Overview

01

Summary

The useful answer before the supporting detail.

ScraperAPI is a web scraping API that lets you collect data from any public website without worrying about proxies, browsers, or CAPTCHAs S40. It is used by thousands of businesses, from startups to enterprise-level companies, to harvest publicly available data on the internet S1. The service handles proxy rotation, CAPTCHA solving, and browser rendering, so teams can focus on using the data rather than maintaining scraping infrastructure S1.

02

Product identity and positioning

Name, category, positioning, audience, and first-party claims.

  • Identity: ScraperAPI is a web scraping API and data collection infrastructure S40 S16.
  • Core purpose: It solves the problem of IP blocks, CAPTCHAs, and browser management in automated web scraping S40 S1.
  • Intended users: Developers and businesses that need to collect public web data at scale S1.
  • Product scope: It is a cloud-based API service, not a desktop app or browser extension; it includes a scraping API, async scraper, structured data endpoints, and a data pipeline S16.
  • Positioning: The vendor positions it as a simple API that handles the hard parts of scraping, with a generous free tier S40.
  • Claimed distinction: It claims to handle anti-bot bypass for major protections like Cloudflare, DataDome, and PerimeterX S17 S16.
03

Use cases and audiences

Who the product serves and the jobs it is designed to handle.

AudiencePractical use case
E-commerce intelligence platformsTrack price changes, seller shifts, and product availability at scale, with zip-code geotargeting to match local shoppers S120.
SEO agenciesMonitor keyword rankings, ads, and SERP data for target keywords S40.
Market researchersCollect user-generated content like reviews and forum discussions to understand customer needs S138.
Real estate platformsAutomate property listing data collection from sites like Redfin and Zillow S40 S138.
AI and ML teamsScrape millions of web pages without interruptions to train models with accurate and updated data S138.

Features

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Features and capabilities

Core functions and evidence-backed product capabilities.

CapabilityWhat it does
Proxy rotationAutomatically rotates IPs from a large pool to avoid blocks S1 S16.
CAPTCHA handlingAutomatically solves CAPTCHAs on target sites S1 S17.
JavaScript renderingRenders pages that require JavaScript to display content S1 S17.
GeotargetingRoutes requests through proxies in specific geographic locations, including zip-code level for some plans S17 S120.
Structured data endpointsProvides pre-built endpoints for sites like Amazon, Google, Walmart, and eBay, returning JSON or CSV S16 S110.
Async scrapingAllows you to submit scraping jobs that run in the background and retrieve results later S1 S16.
DataPipelineA no-code/low-code tool for scheduling recurring scraping jobs with structured output S16.
AI agent integrationOffers an MCP server, AI modelCode Agent Skills plugin, and LangChain/LlamaIndex integrations S16.
10

Integrations and ecosystem

Connected products, exports, APIs, and workflow compatibility.

Integration or interfaceTypeWhat it enables
MCP serverAI interfaceProvides 22 tools for AI agents to scrape and extract data S16.
AI modelCode Agent Skills pluginAI interfaceAdds 5 workflow recipes for scraping tasks in AI modelCode S16.
LangChain / LlamaIndexIntegrationAllows use of ScraperAPI within LangChain and LlamaIndex workflows S16.
n8n community nodeIntegrationEnables scraping automation in n8n workflows S16.
ZapierIntegrationConnects ScraperAPI to thousands of apps for automated data collection S16.
SDKsSDKProvides Python, Node, PHP, Ruby, Java, and cURL support for API integration S16.
Structured Data EndpointsAPIOffers pre-built endpoints for Amazon, Google, Walmart, eBay, and more S16.

Pricing

11

Pricing and plans

Published plans, free access, trials, credits, and pricing limitations.

Plan or offerVerified price and billingIncludedLimits
Free trial7-day trial with 5,000 API credits, no credit card required S835,000 API creditsNot established
Hobby$49 per month, billed monthly; yearly billing 10% off S17100,000 API credits S1720 concurrent threads, US and EU geotargeting S17
Startup$149 per month, billed monthly; yearly billing 10% off S171,000,000 API credits S1750 concurrent threads, US and EU geotargeting S17
Business$299 per month, billed monthly; yearly billing 10% off S173,000,000 API credits S17100 concurrent threads, global geotargeting S17
Scaling$475 per month, billed monthly; yearly billing 10% off S175,000,000 API credits S17200 concurrent threads, pay-as-you-go available S17
Professional$975 per month, billed monthly; yearly billing 10% off S1710,500,000 API credits S17300 concurrent threads, priority support S17
Advanced$1,975 per month, billed monthly; yearly billing 10% off S1721,500,000 API credits S17500 concurrent threads, priority routing S17
EnterpriseCustom pricing S1722,000,000+ API credits S17500+ concurrent threads, dedicated team, Slack support S17

Competition

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Competitive landscape

Domains competing for the same organic search demand.

Sampled competitors

CompetitorFirst-page appearancesSampled queriesAverage positionQueries observed
simplescraper.io111scraper api
decodo.com111scrape amazon reviews
zenrows.com112scraper api
blog.apify.com112scrape amazon reviews
trustpilot.com113scraper api
youtube.com113scrape amazon reviews
scrapingdog.com114scraper api
reddit.com114scrape amazon reviews
apify.com115scraper api
octoparse.com115scrape amazon reviews

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Customers, testimonials, and first-party review claims

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

Independent review sources discovered

PlatformStatusDiscovered source
Capterradiscovered_not_scrapedhttp://www.capterra.com/p/238595/Scraper-API/
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AI visibility

Measured ChatGPT and Google AI mentions with cited sources.

AI-assistant referral traffic

  • Estimated current generative-AI referral share: 3.3%
MonthSource
—All AI assistants
—All AI assistants
—All AI assistants

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Site-stated AI capabilities

Page typeEvidenceSource
featuresWeb Scraping for AI Agents and Automated Workflowshttps://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/ai/
featuresTrack prices across Amazon, Walmart, and competitor sites automatically. Your workflow pulls live data on a schedule, flags changes, and provides data for AI agents to summarize trends and identify pricing opportunities.https://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/ai/
featuresFor the terminalhttps://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/ai/
featuresFor MCP clientshttps://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/ai/
featuresFor RAG and indexinghttps://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/ai/
featuresFor Python developershttps://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/ai/
featuresFor Claude Code and Coworkhttps://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/ai/
featuresFor Zapier workflowshttps://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/ai/
featuresCollect High Quality Data for AI Models and LLMs at Scalehttps://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/ai-data/
featuresCollect Data for AI Modelshttps://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/ai-data/
featuresAI & Automationhttps://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/
featuresGive your AI agents and automation tools access to live data. Add real-time web access, geo-targeted scraping, and clean JSON/markdown outputs without building infrastructure.https://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/
features](https://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/ai/)https://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/
featuresWeb Scraping for AI Agents and Automated Workflowshttps://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/ai/
featuresAI is only as good as the data it can reach. ScraperAPI turns any public URL into clean, structured data, handling the proxies, headless browsers, and CAPTCHAs so you can focus on building. Feed RAG pipelines and training sets through MCP, CLI, LangChain, and LlamaIndex, or power no-code workflows in Claude, n8n, and Zapier.https://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/ai/
featuresTrack prices across Amazon, Walmart, and competitor sites automatically. Your workflow pulls live data on a schedule, flags changes, and provides data for AI agents to summarize trends and identify pricing opportunities.https://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/ai/
featuresPull competitor pages, news sources, and industry sites automatically. Your AI works with structured, current data, not manual searches or stale exports.https://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/ai/
featuresOne reliable web scraping layer between the open web and your AI agents and workflows.https://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/ai/
featuresLLM and Agent integrationshttps://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/ai/
featuresCLIhttps://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/ai/

These are first-party product claims, not independent measurements of AI-search visibility.

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Marketing opportunities

Actions calculated directly from the collected evidence.

OpportunityRecommended actionEvidence
Competitor gapReview the sampled queries where simplescraper.io appears.1 first-page appearances across scraper api

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Website evidence gaps

  • customers: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • reviews: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • changes: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • identity: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • technical: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.

Trust and proof

15

Customers, proof, and reviews

Published proof, customer signals, and review evidence.

Independent reviews

PlatformPageHow it was foundNote
TrustpilotScraperAPI Reviews / Read Customer Service Reviews of www.scraperapi.comGrounded web search42 ... 4.5 ... ## Misleading, contradictory, and unprofessional — terrible experience with ScraperAPI Misleading, contradictory, and unprofessional — terrible experience with ScraperAPI We’ve worked with ScraperAPI for years, but our recent experience has been shockingly bad. Misrepresentation of terms: We were quoted $3,600 for 60M credits at 1 credit per Amazon request. After paying, they applied a 5-credit multiplier without ever disclosing this upfront, which meant our 60M plan was only wort
CapterraScraperAPI Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 / CapterraGrounded web searchOverall rating Based on 62 user reviews 4.6 Reviews sentiment Positive 92% Neutral 5% Negative 3% ... ## User reviews How are reviews collected? Overall rating 4.6 Based on 62 reviews Filter by rating 5(46) 4(11) 3(3) 2(1) 1(1)
ToolRadarScraperAPI Reviews, Pricing & Alternatives (2026) - 4.5/5Grounded web search## Ratings Across the Web 4.5(77 reviews) ScraperAPI holds an aggregate rating of 4.5 out of 5 from 77 reviews across G2 and Capterra, last checked September 17, 2026. G2 15 reviews 4.3/5 Capterra 62 reviews 4.6/5 Ratings aggregated from independent
ShouldIUseScraperAPI Review 2026: Pricing & Pros / Should I Use ItGrounded web search## What users say Ratings land at 4.3/5 on G2 and 8.0/10 on GetApp with ease-of-use praise, but some Trustpilot reviewers call the company's communication misleading. > “ScraperAPI: The Reliable Veteran” Reddit, r/PrivatePackets
CostBenchScraperAPI Hidden Costs 2026: True Cost Breakdown / CostBenchGrounded web searchcomplex or protected targets such as Amazon apply a per-request credit multiplier. One verified ... to Amazon requests post-purchase — a $3,600 plan sold as 60M credits at 1 credit per Amazon request was reduced to only 12M effective Amazon requests. The
scraperapi.comScraperAPI: Scale Data Collection with a Simple Web Scraping APIGrounded web searchOne of the most frustrating parts of automated web scraping is constantly dealing with IP blocks and CAPTCHAs. ScraperAPI gets this task off of your shoulders. based on 50+ reviews The team at ScraperAPI was so patient in helping us debug our first

Customer proof

No named customers, testimonials, or customer case studies were found.

Independent mentions

  • ScraperAPI — # ScraperAPI ... - Login: scraperapi - Blog: https://www.scraperapi.com/ - Email: support@scraperapi.com - Public repos: 22 - Followers: 47 - Created: 2019-01-26T23:18:06Z ## Top Repositories ... - scraperapi/scraperapi-code-examples - Code examples on how to integrate various types of scrapers with Scraper API. (31 stars) - scraperapi/scraperapi-skills - ScraperAPI's Agent Skills. (9 stars) - scraperapi/langchain-scraperapi - (7 stars) - scraperapi/scraperapi-mcp - This MCP server enables LLMs
  • gzr07932/scraperapi-pricing-analysis — now serves over 10,000 brands — including Deloitte, Sony, and Alibaba — and processes around 36 billion API requests ... On Capterra, it holds a 4.6/5 rating (with a 4.9/5 on ease of use, which tells you something about the onboarding experience
  • ScraperAPI vs Zyte - Compared on Price and Features — request Cons - - Credits are not requests - JS rendering costs 5-10 credits each - - Search-engine requests cost 25 credits, e-commerce 5 - - Independent benchmarks put real success around 62-64% - - Weak on Cloudflare and DataDome - can return 500s on

External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.

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Company, security, and trust

Ownership, policies, security signals, and public trust evidence.

SignalFindingSource
Company and ownershipScraperAPI is a popular web scraping tool founded in 2018.source
Contact and supportRefund policy: 7-day no-questions-asked refund. Contact support@scraperapi.com.source
Legal and privacyCCPA & GDPR compliantsource
Security and complianceNot published on the collected pages.—
Uptime and status page99.9% Uptime Guaranteesource
Domain registered2018-05-14—
Domain expires2027-05-14—

Not found on the collected pages: security and compliance. This only means Scout did not find it on the pages it read; it says nothing about the company itself.

17

Documentation and product updates

Help resources, product guidance, and visible changes over time.

Resource or updateTypeWhat is availableDate or freshness
ScraperAPI -- AI Knowledge IndexDocumentationDocumentation is publicly available. (source)Not dated
How to Build an eBay Price Checker with Node.jsGuideIncrease sales and optimize profits by monitoring your competitors' prices on eBay using Node.js and ScraperAPI. Ready-to-use code inside! (source)Not dated
How to Scrape Google Hotel Prices with Node.jsGuideGuides, comparisons, pricing breakdowns, use cases, and how-to articles. (source)Not dated
ScraperAPI -- Pricing and Credits (AI Grounding)DocumentationDocumentation is publicly available. (source)Not dated
How to Scrape AliExpress Product Listing Data (Easy Guide)GuideLearn how to build a Python-based AliExpress web scraper to extract product details at scale, including product names, descriptions, reviews, pricing, and more. (source)Not dated
How to Scrape Target.com Product DataGuideGuides, comparisons, pricing breakdowns, use cases, and how-to articles. (source)Not dated
About ScraperAPIProduct updateProduct update is publicly available. (source)Not dated
E-commerce Intelligence Data Infrastructure / ScraperAPIRoadmapPublic product roadmap. (source)Not dated

Not found in the collected public sources: changelog or release notes, status page, separate help center or knowledge base.

Technical

18

Technical and delivery signals

Delivery model, platforms, API, data ownership, reliability claims and release activity.

SignalFindingSource
Delivery model (cloud, self-hosted, desktop, browser extension)Cloud-based API service S40.S40
Platforms and appsAccessible via web API; SDKs for Python, Node, PHP, Ruby, Java, and cURL S16.S16
API and extensibility (API, SDK, webhooks, MCP, plugins)Offers API, SDKs, MCP server, and integrations with LangChain, LlamaIndex, n8n, and Zapier S16.S16
Data ownership and exportNot published on the collected pages.—
Performance and reliability claimsClaims to handle 14,000 websites per second and 99.9% uptime S1 S17.S1 S17
Release activityNot published on the collected pages.—
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Measured infrastructure

Domain, certificate, and hosting signals, measured directly.

SignalFinding
Domain registered2018-05-14 — NameCheap, Inc.
Domain expires2027-05-14
TLS certificateLet's Encrypt, valid, expires 2026-11-28
Security headersX-Frame-Options
Headers not servedHSTS, CSP, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy
Server headercloudflare
Mail handled byaspmx.l.google.com, alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
Nameserversns3.digitalocean.com, ns2.digitalocean.com

Not measurable: wayback: rate limited by archive.org, ladder stopped after 1 probe(s); rdap: exceeded the overall budget; wayback: exceeded the overall budget; tls: exceeded the overall budget; dns: exceeded the overall budget; headers: exceeded the overall budget. A gap here means the lookup was unavailable, not that the finding is negative.

20

Technical site audit

A bounded multi-page crawl with page-level issues and URLs.

Scout — Bounded technical crawl

  • Pages crawled: 15 of 15 maximum
  • Technical health: 98/100
  • Critical issues: 0
  • Warnings: 7
  • Notices: 1

Issues

SeverityIssueValueAffected URL
warningMissing canonical URL—https://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/scraping-api/
noticePage is marked noindex—https://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/scraping-api/
warningDuplicate title in audit sample2https://www.scraperapi.com/
warningDuplicate title in audit sample2https://www.scraperapi.com/
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample2https://www.scraperapi.com/
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample2https://www.scraperapi.com/
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample2https://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/data-pipeline/
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample2https://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/data-acquisition-for-enterprise/

Crawled pages

StatusTitleH1sWordsResponseURL
200ScraperAPI: Scale Data Collection with a Simple Web Scraping API1132237 mshttps://www.scraperapi.com/
200ScraperAPI + Traject Data: From data extraction to insights1122559 mshttps://www.scraperapi.com/blog/scraperapi-traject-data-acquisition/
200ScraperAPI: Scale Data Collection with a Simple Web Scraping API1132227 mshttps://www.scraperapi.com/
200Compare Plans and Get Started for Free - ScraperAPI Pricing1213350 mshttps://www.scraperapi.com/pricing/
200Web Scraping Solutions \ScraperAPI1277440 ms
200Async Scraper Service - ScraperAPI11160100 mshttps://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/asynchronous-scraper-service/
200Structured Data Endpoints - ScraperAPI1213553 mshttps://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/structured-data/
200AI Web Scraping for Agents & Automated Workflows \ScraperAPI1198641 ms
200Automate Web Scraping with DataPipeline - ScraperAPI1180746 mshttps://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/data-pipeline/
200Scraping API - Easy to use1187643 mshttps://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/scraping-api/
200Large-Scale Data Acquisition with ScraperAPI1123197 mshttps://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/data-acquisition-for-enterprise/
200Scrape eCommerce Product Data With ScraperAPI118251,979 mshttps://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/ecommerce/
200Gather Web Data for Market Research with ScraperAPI1136758 mshttps://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/market-research/
200Get SERP Data at Scale with ScraperAPI1163835 mshttps://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/serp-api/
200Web Data Collection for Travel and Hospitality with ScraperAPI1135391 mshttps://www.scraperapi.com/solutions/travel-and-hospitality/

This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.

21

Search Console and Analytics

First-party search and behavioral data connection state.

Modeled acquisition channels

ChannelEstimated share
direct37.1%
search52.2%
search organic41.8%
search paid10.5%
social2.1%
social organic2.1%
social paid0.0%
referrals4.3%
paid referrals0.4%
mail0.5%
gen ai3.3%
affiliate0.0%
other0.0%

First-party connections

IntegrationStatusData available after connection
Google Search ConsoleNot connectedClicks, impressions, CTR, average position, queries, pages, countries, and devices
Google AnalyticsNot connectedOrganic sessions, engagement, landing pages, conversions, geography, and devices

No first-party Search Console or Analytics numbers are shown until the site owner authorizes the corresponding Google account. Scout traffic model values above are modeled estimates, not private analytics totals.

Limits and method

22

Limitations and open questions

Known constraints and missing evidence from the collected pages.

The collected pages do not mention any competitors by name. Evidence gaps include lack of detailed customer testimonials, independent review ratings, and specific security certifications beyond GDPR/CCPA claims. Open questions include the exact credit cost for many target sites and the specifics of the Enterprise plan pricing.

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Sources, method, and limitations

Evidence inventory, collection method, provider use, and constraints.

This report is based on 15 collected pages from scraperapi.com, including the homepage, pricing page, about page, and AI grounding documentation. The external proof search discovered a review profile but did not collect its content. Limitations include the absence of first-party customer testimonials and detailed security documentation.

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