Crawlbase

Crawlbase (formerly ProxyCrawl) is a web crawling and scraping platform that fetches any web page through a large rotating proxy network with optional headless-Chrome JavaScript rendering, returning raw HTML, Markdown, screenshots, or structured JSON. A single token-authenticated REST host (api.crawlbase.com) exposes the Crawling API, a Scraper API of ready-made site extractors, Cloud Storage for crawled pages, a Screenshots API, and a Leads API for domain email discovery.

Crawlbase publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Crawling API API, Leads API API, Scraper API API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Web Scraping, Web Crawling, Web Intelligence, Data Extraction, and Proxy.

Crawlbase’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 8 more developer resources.

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24.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 28/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

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1 APIs

Web Scraping Web Crawling Web Intelligence Data Extraction Proxy Scraper API Data Collection SERP Web Data

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scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 24.9/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 23

Developer Ergonomics 5.8 / 18

Access Clarity 7.1 / 18

Operational Transparency 4.0 / 12

Contract Governance 0.0 / 11

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 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 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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.

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APIs 5

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

Crawlbase Crawling API API

Fetch any URL through the rotating proxy network, optionally rendered.

Crawlbase Leads API API

Publicly visible email discovery for a domain (legacy).

Crawlbase Scraper API API

Ready-made structured-data extractors for supported sites (legacy).

Crawlbase Screenshots API API

Rendered page screenshots in headless Chrome (legacy).

Crawlbase Storage API API

Retrieve, list, and delete previously stored crawls.

Open Collections 7

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Crawlbase Crawling API API

OPEN COLLECTION

Crawlbase Crawling API Leads API API

OPEN COLLECTION

Crawlbase Crawling API Scraper API API

OPEN COLLECTION

Crawlbase Crawling API Screenshots API API

OPEN COLLECTION

Crawlbase Crawling API Storage API API

OPEN COLLECTION

Crawlbase API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Crawlbase Plans Pricing

10 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Crawlbase Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Crawlbase Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

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

Crawlbase Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Crawlbase Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Crawlbase Agentic Access

11 operations · 4 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: crawlbase
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/crawlbase/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Crawlbase
kind: company
description: Crawlbase (formerly ProxyCrawl) is a web crawling and scraping platform that fetches any web page through a large
  rotating proxy network with optional headless-Chrome JavaScript rendering, returning raw HTML, Markdown, screenshots, or
  structured JSON. A single token-authenticated REST host (api.crawlbase.com) exposes the Crawling API, a Scraper API of ready-made
  site extractors, Cloud Storage for crawled pages, a Screenshots API, and a Leads API for domain email discovery.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: open
  trial: true
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Freemium (free trial) · Open access
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/crawlbase.png
tags:
- Web Scraping
- Web Crawling
- Web Intelligence
- Data Extraction
- Proxy
- Scraper API
- Data Collection
- SERP
- Web Data
created: '2026-07-12'
modified: '2026-07-12'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: crawlbase:crawlbase-crawling-api-api
  name: Crawlbase Crawling API API
  description: Fetch any URL through the rotating proxy network, optionally rendered.
  humanURL: https://crawlbase.com/docs/crawling-api/
  baseURL: https://api.crawlbase.com
  tags:
  - Crawling API
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/crawlbase-crawling-api-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/crawling-api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/crawling-api/parameters/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/crawlbase.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/crawlbase.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/scraper-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/storage-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/screenshots-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/leads-api/
- aid: crawlbase:crawlbase-leads-api-api
  name: Crawlbase Leads API API
  description: Publicly visible email discovery for a domain (legacy).
  humanURL: https://crawlbase.com/docs/crawling-api/
  baseURL: https://api.crawlbase.com
  tags:
  - Leads API
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/crawlbase-leads-api-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/crawling-api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/crawling-api/parameters/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/crawlbase.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/crawlbase.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/scraper-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/storage-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/screenshots-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/leads-api/
- aid: crawlbase:crawlbase-scraper-api-api
  name: Crawlbase Scraper API API
  description: Ready-made structured-data extractors for supported sites (legacy).
  humanURL: https://crawlbase.com/docs/crawling-api/
  baseURL: https://api.crawlbase.com
  tags:
  - Scraper API
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/crawlbase-scraper-api-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/crawling-api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/crawling-api/parameters/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/crawlbase.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/crawlbase.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/scraper-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/storage-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/screenshots-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/leads-api/
- aid: crawlbase:crawlbase-screenshots-api-api
  name: Crawlbase Screenshots API API
  description: Rendered page screenshots in headless Chrome (legacy).
  humanURL: https://crawlbase.com/docs/crawling-api/
  baseURL: https://api.crawlbase.com
  tags:
  - Screenshots API
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/crawlbase-screenshots-api-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/crawling-api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/crawling-api/parameters/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/crawlbase.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/crawlbase.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/scraper-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/storage-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/screenshots-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/leads-api/
- aid: crawlbase:crawlbase-storage-api-api
  name: Crawlbase Storage API API
  description: Retrieve, list, and delete previously stored crawls.
  humanURL: https://crawlbase.com/docs/crawling-api/
  baseURL: https://api.crawlbase.com
  tags:
  - Storage API
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/crawlbase-storage-api-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/crawling-api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/crawling-api/parameters/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/crawlbase.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/crawlbase.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/scraper-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/storage-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/screenshots-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crawlbase.com/docs/leads-api/
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/crawlbase-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/crawlbase-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/crawlbase-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/crawlbase
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/crawlbase
- type: Website
  url: https://crawlbase.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://crawlbase.com/docs
- type: Plans
  url: plans/crawlbase-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/crawlbase-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/crawlbase-finops.yml
- url: https://crawlbase.com/blog
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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