ScraperAPI
Managed proxy API for effortless web scraping at scale
- IP pool
- 40M+
- Countries
- 50
- Uptime
- 99.9%
- Avg. response
- 2.5s
About ScraperAPI
ScraperAPI is a managed proxy and web scraping API that eliminates the complexity of proxy management, CAPTCHA solving, and browser fingerprinting. Rather than providing traditional proxy endpoints, ScraperAPI offers a single API endpoint that handles everything — proxy rotation, geo-targeting, JavaScript rendering, and anti-bot bypass — letting developers focus on parsing data rather than fighting blocks.
ScraperAPI maintains a pool of 40 million+ IP addresses across residential, datacenter, and mobile proxy types spanning 50+ countries. The platform automatically selects the optimal proxy type and rotation strategy for each request based on the target website's anti-bot sophistication, achieving success rates above 99% on most targets.
The API is dead simple to use — prepend the ScraperAPI URL to any target URL and receive clean HTML in the response. Optional parameters control geo-targeting, JavaScript rendering, premium proxy selection, and custom headers. For structured data, ScraperAPI's DataPipeline feature handles scheduled scraping with automatic delivery to your storage.
ScraperAPI's Structured Data Endpoints provide pre-built parsers for Amazon, Google Search, Google Shopping, and other popular targets. These return clean JSON output with product titles, prices, ratings, and other fields already extracted — no regex or HTML parsing required.
For high-volume users, ScraperAPI offers Async Scraper for batch processing millions of URLs, and an SDK for Python and Node.js that simplifies integration. The platform integrates seamlessly with Scrapy through a dedicated middleware plugin.
ScraperAPI's pricing is request-based rather than bandwidth-based, making costs predictable regardless of page size. Plans start with a generous free tier of 5,000 API calls per month, scaling to millions of requests for enterprise users.
With excellent documentation, responsive support, and a straightforward pay-per-request model, ScraperAPI is the ideal choice for developers and data teams who want turnkey web scraping infrastructure without managing proxies, solving CAPTCHAs, or building anti-detection systems from scratch.
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- Residential
- Selected volume
- 25 GB
- Unit price
- $8.50/GB
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Features & Capabilities
General
- API Access
- Dashboard
Performance
- Auto Rotation
- Sticky Sessions
- High Speed
Targeting
- Country Targeting
- City Targeting
Protocols
- HTTP(S)
- SOCKS5
Authentication
- IP Whitelist
- User/Pass
Support
- 24/7 Support
- Live Chat
- Email Support
Pros
- Dead-simple API — no proxy management needed
- Automatic CAPTCHA solving and anti-bot bypass
- Generous free tier (5,000 requests/month)
- Structured data endpoints for Amazon and Google
- Predictable per-request pricing
Cons
- Higher per-request cost for large volumes
- Not ideal for non-scraping use cases
- Limited geo-targeting granularity
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about ScraperAPI
ScraperAPI is both — it combines a massive proxy network (40M+ IPs) with intelligent scraping infrastructure. You send a URL to their API and receive clean HTML or structured JSON, with proxy rotation, CAPTCHA solving, and anti-bot bypass handled automatically behind the scenes.
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Community Ratings
Based on 18 user reviews · 9 verified
Score Distribution
Marie Dubois
Convenient hands-off API that does the heavy lifting. Concurrency limits on lower tiers felt restrictive until I moved up a plan.
Kwame Asante
VerifiedDecent for getting started quickly, but I ran into more blocks than expected on heavily protected sites and had to upgrade to premium IPs.
Isabella Rossi
Works smoothly for most of our targets and onboarding was painless. A couple of sites still need manual tweaking of render settings.
Stefan Novak
VerifiedSaved my team from maintaining proxy infrastructure. It is dependable, though I would like cheaper bandwidth for high-volume jobs.
Ananya Reddy
Good value managed proxy API. The success rate on standard sites is excellent, but the dashboard could surface more detailed error breakdowns.
Noah Williams
VerifiedReliable and easy to plug into our Python pipeline. Response times are good though I have seen brief slowdowns during peak hours.
Tomás Alvarez
Reliable for large scraping jobs and the structured data endpoints save parsing work. Credit consumption on JS-rendered pages adds up faster than I expected though.
Emma Lindqvist
Does what it promises for hands-off scraping. Pricing on premium IPs adds up quickly when you scale to millions of requests.
Carlos Mendoza
VerifiedSolid API that scales well. The automatic CAPTCHA solving is not perfect but it clears most of them without my intervention.
Fatima Al-Mansoori
Great developer experience and the geotargeting works well for our regional price monitoring. Occasional timeouts on one stubborn site.
Mateusz Kowalski
VerifiedHandles rotation and retries beautifully. I wish the free tier credits lasted a bit longer but the paid plan is worth it.
Amelia Clarke
Very reliable for the price and the dashboard usage stats are clear. JS rendering can be a touch slow on heavy pages but results are accurate.
Hiroshi Tanaka
VerifiedRock solid uptime over six months of continuous scraping. Support answered my concurrency question within a day.
Sofia Ramirez
As a solo developer I love that I do not have to think about proxies at all. Set the endpoint, get clean HTML back, done.
Lukas Brandt
VerifiedBest managed scraping API I have used. The 40M IP pool means I almost never see blocks even on tough targets.
Priya Nair
Integration took about ten minutes and the docs were spot on. We push millions of requests a month and rotation is completely hands-off.
Grace Sullivan
VerifiedScraperAPI just works, we point our requests at the endpoint and it handles proxies, retries and CAPTCHAs. Success rate on ecommerce scraping has been consistently high.
Daniel Okonkwo
VerifiedScraperAPI just works. The automatic retries and CAPTCHA handling saved me weeks of building my own infrastructure for a large e-commerce scrape.
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