ScrapingBee

Hosted scraping API for JS-heavy sites with IP rotation and practical workflows
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Spin up a scraping job in minutes—no browser farms, no proxy wrangling. Send a single API request with the page URL and let the service fetch the fully rendered markup for you. Toggle JavaScript execution when a site builds content on the client, set a wait condition for a selector to appear, and choose a region to match local content. Control headers and cookies to simulate a real visitor, block heavy assets to speed up loads, and let automatic retries smooth out flaky pages. Pipe the returned HTML into your parser to extract prices, availability, or any field you need, then store results in your database or sheet.

Content and SEO teams can build reliable monitors without standing up infrastructure. Track key pages for title, meta, and schema shifts; follow competitors’ landing pages; and verify that important links still resolve. Feed a list of URLs into a simple loop, fetch fresh pages on a schedule, diff today’s snapshot against yesterday’s, and send alerts to Slack when something changes. For rank checks or localized research, pick the desired country to mirror regional experiences. When pages rely on client-side rendering, enable JS and wait for the main content container before extraction to avoid partial data.

Growth and operations workflows benefit from the managed network and rendering stack. For lead capture, crawl directories and marketplace listings: identify the pagination element, iterate through result pages, and pull profiles, emails, and social links with your own patterns. Use session stickiness when a flow requires maintaining context; otherwise keep rotation on so each request looks like a new visitor. Control concurrency to reduce throttling, introduce randomized delays, and vary headers to blend in with normal traffic. Deduplicate records by domain or email, enrich where needed, and push cleaned data into your CRM or outreach tool.

Developers can integrate from any stack via HTTP. Start with a cURL request, then wrap it in a small client in Python, Node, or Go. Handle common statuses with exponential backoff, log request IDs for support, and retry selectively on transient failures. Keep secrets in environment variables, not code. Use JSON or CSV exports from your own parser, and store snapshots for reproducible results. For teams shipping at scale, define a job spec (URL list, render flag, wait conditions, region, headers) and run it via cron or CI to keep scrapes consistent across environments. Always review each site’s terms and comply with applicable policies.

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Features

  • Managed browser rendering with optional JavaScript execution
  • Large IP pool with automatic rotation and regional targeting
  • Custom headers, cookies, and session stickiness controls
  • Wait-for-selector and resource blocking to speed up loads
  • Automatic retries and clear status codes for robust pipelines
  • Supports HTML snapshots suitable for parsing and archiving

How It’s Used

  • Price and inventory tracking for ecommerce
  • Monitoring competitor pages, titles, metadata, and structured data
  • Backlink verification and link reclamation workflows
  • Lead prospecting from directories, marketplaces, and event listings
  • Review and testimonial collection from product pages
  • Job, real estate, and travel listing aggregation

Plans & Pricing

Freelance

$49.00 per month

API Credits: 250,000
Concurrent request: 10
JavaScript rendering
Rotating & Premium Proxies
Geotargeting
Screenshots, Extraction Rules, Google Search API

Startup

$99.00 per month

API Credits: 1,000,000
Concurrent request: 50
Includes features of Freelance plan, plus
Priority Email Support

Business

$249.00 per month

API Credits: 3,000,000
Concurrent request: 100
Includes features of Startup plan, plus
Dedicated Account Manager
Team Management

Business +

$599.00 per month

API Credits: 8,000,000
Concurrent request: 200
Includes features of Business<strong> </strong>plan

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