Scraping is one of the API Evangelist areas on the APIs.io network — a focused corner of the API landscape. The full area lives at scraping.apievangelist.com.
20 providers on the network work in this area, including KonbiniAPI, Serper, Oxylabs, Spider, Firecrawl, Notte, and 14 more — each links out to that provider’s APIs, schemas, and governance artifacts.
Related areas: API Proxies, API Evangelist Search, Agent Skills, and Agents. Browse every area at areas.apis.io.
About this area
An index and topic collection covering web scraping platforms, proxy networks, SERP APIs, browser-based extraction services, and data collection APIs. Scraping platforms turn the…
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| Provider | Description | APIs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| KonbiniAPI | KonbiniAPI is the social data layer for Instagram, TikTok, X, Reddit and LinkedIn, normalizing real-time public profile, post, video, comment, audio, community, subreddit, locat... | 6 | exemplar |
| Serper | Serper is the world's fastest and most affordable Google Search API, delivering real-time SERP data in 1-2 seconds via a simple REST interface. It supports web search, images, n... | 14 | strong |
| Oxylabs | Oxylabs is a Lithuanian (Vilnius-based) web intelligence platform providing premium proxy networks (Residential, Datacenter, Mobile, ISP, Dedicated), web data acquisition APIs (... | 15 | strong |
| Spider | Spider is a Rust-based, AI-friendly web scraping and crawling cloud. Point it at a URL and get back clean markdown, structured JSON, screenshots, or links — at up to 100K pages ... | 10 | developing |
| Firecrawl | Empower your AI apps with clean data from any website. Featuring advanced scraping, crawling, and data extraction capabilities. Firecrawl is an API service that takes a URL, cra... | 10 | developing |
| Notte | Notte is web browser and agent infrastructure for AI. The REST API at api.notte.cc provisions cloud browser sessions, runs autonomous web agents from natural-language tasks, obs... | 7 | thin |
| Frostbyte | Free API platform for developers and AI agents — 40+ services including IP Geolocation, Crypto Prices, Screenshots, DNS, Scraping, Code Execution. Free tier of 200 credits with ... | 10 | thin |
| Steel | Steel is the open-source browser API for AI agents and apps. The Steel Cloud REST API (https://api.steel.dev/v1) launches and manages cloud browser sessions, runs stateless quic... | 4 | thin |
| Octoparse | Octoparse is a powerful web scraping tool that allows users to extract data from websites without any coding knowledge. The platform uses advanced algorithms to automatically id... | 19 | thin |
| Diffbot | Diffbot is a company that provides AI-powered web scraping and data extraction services. Their technology allows businesses to automatically extract and organize data from any w... | 11 | thin |
| Nubela | Build and scale data-driven applications on people and companies with Nubela's Proxycurl API without worrying about scaling a web scraping and data-science team. | 4 | thin |
| ScraperAPI | ScraperAPI is a web scraping API that manages proxies, browsers, and CAPTCHAs to extract HTML from any web page with a simple API call. | 3 | thin |
| ScrapingAnt | ScrapingAnt is a web scraping API service that handles proxy rotation, headless browsers, and CAPTCHA solving for reliable web data extraction. | 2 | emerging |
| ParseHub | ParseHub is a visual web scraping tool that turns any website into an API with a point-and-click interface for data extraction. | 2 | emerging |
| Cheerio | Cheerio is a fast, flexible, and elegant Node.js library for parsing and manipulating HTML and XML using a jQuery-compatible API. It is widely used for server-side web scraping,... | 1 | emerging |
| Crawlee | Crawlee is an open-source web scraping and crawling library maintained by Apify, providing a unified set of crawler classes, request queues, datasets, and key-value stores for b... | 2 | emerging |
| Beautiful Soup | Beautiful Soup is a Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files, widely used for web scraping and screen scraping tasks. It provides a parse tree API with simple m... | 1 | emerging |
| Zyte | Zyte is a web data extraction platform providing APIs, smart proxy management, and AI-powered data extraction built on the Scrapy framework. | 1 | emerging |
| Scrapy | Scrapy is an open-source Python web crawling framework for extracting structured data from websites using spiders and built-in data pipelines. | 1 | emerging |
| Puppeteer | Puppeteer is a Node.js library providing a high-level API to control headless Chrome or Chromium browsers for web scraping, testing, and automation. | 1 | minimal |
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