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.

ScraperAPI publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Structured API and Sync API. Tagged areas include Data Extraction, Proxies, and Scraping.

ScraperAPI’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 7 more developer resources.

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26.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

3 APIs

Data Extraction Proxies Scraping

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

Composite quality — 26.1/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 11.4 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 20

Access Clarity 3.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 1.4 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

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 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 Surface 0 / 5

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APIs 3

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Scraper Api Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

LlmsText

LlmsText

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

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

PublicAPIsListing

PublicAPIsListing

Source (apis.yml)

aid: scraper-api
name: ScraperAPI
description: ScraperAPI is a web scraping API that manages proxies, browsers, and CAPTCHAs to extract HTML from any web page
  with a simple API call.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/scraper-api.png
tags:
- Data Extraction
- Proxies
- Scraping
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scraper-api/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-29'
modified: '2026-08-08'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: scraper-api:scraper-api
  name: ScraperAPI
  description: ScraperAPI is a web scraping API that manages proxies, browsers, and CAPTCHAs to extract HTML from any web
    page with a simple API call.
  humanURL: https://www.scraperapi.com/
  tags:
  - Data Extraction
  - Proxies
  - Scraping
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.scraperapi.com/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.scraperapi.com/getting-started
- aid: scraper-api:scraper-api-structured-api
  name: ScraperAPI Structured API
  description: The Structured API from ScraperAPI — 2 operation(s) for structured.
  humanURL: https://www.scraperapi.com/
  tags:
  - Structured
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/scraper-api-structured-api-openapi.yml
- aid: scraper-api:scraper-api-sync-api
  name: ScraperAPI Sync API
  description: The Sync API from ScraperAPI — 1 operation(s) for sync.
  humanURL: https://www.scraperapi.com/
  tags:
  - Sync
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/scraper-api-sync-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/scraper-api-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/scraper-api-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/scraper-api-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/scraperapi
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/scraperapi
- type: Website
  url: https://www.scraperapi.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.scraperapi.com/
- type: Integrations
  url: https://www.scraperapi.com/integrations/
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://scraperapi.com/llms.txt
- url: https://www.scraperapi.com/feed/
  type: Blog
- type: PublicAPIsListing
  url: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
integrations:
- name: ScraperAPI
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-merged-from:
- scraperapi

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