AdsCrawl

AdsCrawl provides a Browser Automation API that lets developers run full browsers (Playwright, Puppeteer, or Chrome DevTools Protocol) with residential proxy routing to handle dynamic pages, authenticated sessions, and structured web data extraction. The platform offers endpoints for page rendering, screenshot capture, HTML extraction, and data scraping, targeting use cases like e‑commerce monitoring, SEO analysis, and content aggregation. It emphasizes real‑browser fidelity and scalable proxy infrastructure for reliable web data collection.

AdsCrawl publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Browser tasks API, Cloud browsers API, and Remote CDP API. Tagged areas include Company, Browser Automation, WebDataExtraction, Playwright, and Puppeteer.

The AdsCrawl catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

AdsCrawl’s developer surface includes authentication, pricing, engineering blog, API reference, getting-started guide, documentation, and 24 more developer resources.

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53.6/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 38/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

2 published contracts

Company Browser AutomationWebDataExtractionPlaywright PuppeteerChrome DevTools Protocol

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scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

Composite quality — 53.6/100 · developing

Contract Quality 11.0 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 9.2 / 15

Access Clarity 11.4 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.5 / 10

Contract Governance 2.0 / 9

Discoverability 5.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.7 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 38/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

AdsCrawl Browser tasks API

Synchronous rendered content, screenshots, and structured extraction.

AdsCrawl Cloud browsers API

Persistent profiles and browser lifecycle. Starting requires a paid plan.

AdsCrawl Remote CDP API

Temporary browser sessions and scoped connection tokens.

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Adscrawl Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Adscrawl Context

16 classes · 87 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

AdsCrawl API Rules

15 rules · 12 errors 1 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 6

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

BrowserSettings

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CloudBrowser

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CloudLaunchRequest

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CloudStartRequest

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ExtractionTemplate

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SpaRequest

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Adscrawl Authentication

2 schemes

SECURITY

Adscrawl Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Adscrawl Agentic Access

15 operations · 10 acting · 3 human-in-the-loop

15 operations · 10 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

APIReference

APIReference

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

JSONLD

Vocabulary

DataModel

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

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Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

SDKs

SDKs

Packages

Packages

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

AgentCard

AgentCard

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: adscrawl
name: AdsCrawl
description: AdsCrawl provides a Browser Automation API that lets developers run full browsers (Playwright, Puppeteer, or
  Chrome DevTools Protocol) with residential proxy routing to handle dynamic pages, authenticated sessions, and structured
  web data extraction. The platform offers endpoints for page rendering, screenshot capture, HTML extraction, and data scraping,
  targeting use cases like e‑commerce monitoring, SEO analysis, and content aggregation. It emphasizes real‑browser fidelity
  and scalable proxy infrastructure for reliable web data collection.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/adscrawl/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:new-submission
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-10-02 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-10-02'
modified: '2026-10-02'
x-docs-platform: mintlify
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-03
tags:
- Company
- Browser Automation
- WebDataExtraction
- Playwright
- Puppeteer
- Chrome DevTools Protocol
tags_raw:
- Company
- BrowserAutomation
- WebDataExtraction
- Playwright
- Puppeteer
- Chrome DevTools Protocol
image: https://www.adscrawl.net/logo.svg
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/adscrawl-agentic-access.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/adscrawl-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/adscrawl-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/adscrawl-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/adscrawl-vocabulary.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/adscrawl-data-model.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/adscrawl-conventions.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/adscrawl-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/adscrawl-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/adscrawl-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/adscrawl-llms.txt
- type: AgentCard
  url: a2a/adscrawl-a2a.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/adscrawl-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/adscrawl-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/adscrawl-vendors.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/adscrawl-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/adscrawl-packages.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.adscrawl.net/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.adscrawl.net/privacy-policy
- type: Pricing
  url: https://docs.adscrawl.net/pricing
- type: Login
  url: https://www.adscrawl.net/login
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/AdsCrawl
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.adscrawl.net/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.adscrawl.net/api-reference/introduction
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.adscrawl.net/quickstart
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://api.adscrawl.net`
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/adscrawl-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.adscrawl.net/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.adscrawl.net
apis:
- aid: adscrawl:adscrawl-browser-tasks-api
  name: AdsCrawl Browser tasks API
  description: Synchronous rendered content, screenshots, and structured extraction.
  humanURL: https://docs.adscrawl.net/api-reference/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.adscrawl.net
  tags:
  - Browser tasks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/adscrawl-browser-tasks-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/adscrawl-browser-settings-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/adscrawl-spa-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/adscrawl-cloud-launch-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/adscrawl-cloud-browser-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/adscrawl-extraction-template-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/adscrawl-cloud-start-request-schema.json
- aid: adscrawl:adscrawl-cloud-browsers-api
  name: AdsCrawl Cloud browsers API
  description: Persistent profiles and browser lifecycle. Starting requires a paid plan.
  humanURL: https://docs.adscrawl.net/api-reference/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.adscrawl.net
  tags:
  - Cloud Browsers
  tags_raw:
  - Cloud browsers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/adscrawl-cloud-browsers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/adscrawl-browser-settings-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/adscrawl-spa-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/adscrawl-cloud-launch-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/adscrawl-cloud-browser-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/adscrawl-extraction-template-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/adscrawl-cloud-start-request-schema.json
- aid: adscrawl:adscrawl-remote-cdp-api
  name: AdsCrawl Remote CDP API
  description: Temporary browser sessions and scoped connection tokens.
  humanURL: https://docs.adscrawl.net/api-reference/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.adscrawl.net
  tags:
  - Remote CDP
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/adscrawl-remote-cdp-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/adscrawl-browser-settings-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/adscrawl-spa-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/adscrawl-cloud-launch-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/adscrawl-cloud-browser-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/adscrawl-extraction-template-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/adscrawl-cloud-start-request-schema.json
x-submission-notes: Browser automation and web-data API (rendered HTML/Markdown, extraction, screenshots, CDP sessions).
x-submission-probe: root 200; docs 200; llms.txt 200 (both); api.adscrawl.net 404 JSON (live API host); no OpenAPI found;
  404 probe 404
x-submitted-by: support@adscrawl.net (apis.io/add, 2026-09-30)
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-02'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 30
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local
x-tags-removed:
- CDP

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