ScrapingAnt

ScrapingAnt is a web-data infrastructure platform operated by DATAANT that puts headless Chrome rendering, a rotating pool of 3M+ residential and datacenter proxies, CAPTCHA avoidance and AI-powered extraction behind a single HTTP API. One request returns a fully JavaScript-rendered page as raw HTML, as LLM-ready Markdown, as an extended JSON envelope carrying cookies, headers, XHRs and iframes, or as structured JSON described in plain English. A hosted, remote MCP server exposes three of those formats as native tools to Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline and VS Code, so an AI agent gets live web access without running a browser locally. Billing is metered in API credits with a permanently free 10,000-credit monthly tier; standalone rotating proxies are sold separately by bandwidth.

ScrapingAnt publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Scraping API, Usage API, General API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Data Extraction, Proxies, Scraping, Web Scraping, and Headless Browser.

ScrapingAnt’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, API reference, getting-started guide, pricing, signup flow, and 26 more developer resources.

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51.2/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 32/100 agent ready Front door AI 6/6 dominant Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-04 · rubric v0.23.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

2 published contracts 1 MCP Servers

Data Extraction Proxies Scraping Web Scraping Headless Browser AI Agents MCP LLM Data Collection Web Data

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scored 2026-10-04 · rubric v0.23.0

Composite quality — 51.2/100 · developing

Contract Quality 8.9 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 9.6 / 15

Access Clarity 10.9 / 15

Operational Transparency 3.3 / 10

Contract Governance 0.4 / 9

Discoverability 5.1 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.4 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 32/100 · agent ready

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 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 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 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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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 5

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

ScrapingAnt

ScrapingAnt is a web scraping API service that handles proxy rotation, headless browsers, and CAPTCHA solving for reliable web data extraction.

ScrapingAnt Scraping API

The ScrapingAnt web scraping endpoint. GET/POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE /v2/general renders a target URL in headless Chrome behind rotating proxies and returns the page HTML; a non-GET...

ScrapingAnt Usage API

Account credit metering for ScrapingAnt. GET /v2/usage returns the current plan name, subscription period, total plan credits and remaining credits - the only way to observe bud...

ScrapingAnt MCP Server

First-party hosted remote MCP server at https://api.scrapingant.com/mcp/ exposing get_web_page_html, get_web_page_markdown and get_web_page_text to MCP clients over streamable H...

ScrapingAnt General API

The General API from ScrapingAnt — 1 operation(s) for general.

Open Collections 3

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

ScrapingAnt Scraping API

OPEN COLLECTION

ScrapingAnt

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

ScrapingAnt MCP Server

ScrapingAnt operates a first-party hosted MCP server that gives an AI agent live web access through the same headless-Chrome cluster and rotating proxy pool that backs the /v2/g...

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Scrapingant Plans Pricing

6 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Scrapingant Rate Limits

7 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Scrapingant Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

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

Scrapingant Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Scrapingant Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Scrapingant Agentic Access

6 operations · 4 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conventions

DataModel

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

ToolCrosswalk

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Support

Support

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 4

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Twitter

Twitter

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: scrapingant
name: ScrapingAnt
description: ScrapingAnt is a web-data infrastructure platform operated by DATAANT that puts headless Chrome rendering, a
  rotating pool of 3M+ residential and datacenter proxies, CAPTCHA avoidance and AI-powered extraction behind a single HTTP
  API. One request returns a fully JavaScript-rendered page as raw HTML, as LLM-ready Markdown, as an extended JSON envelope
  carrying cookies, headers, XHRs and iframes, or as structured JSON described in plain English. A hosted, remote MCP server
  exposes three of those formats as native tools to Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline and VS Code, so an AI agent gets live
  web access without running a browser locally. Billing is metered in API credits with a permanently free 10,000-credit monthly
  tier; standalone rotating proxies are sold separately by bandwidth.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/scrapingant.png
x-docs-platform: docusaurus
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
tags:
- Data Extraction
- Proxies
- Scraping
- Web Scraping
- Headless Browser
- AI Agents
- MCP
- LLM
- Data Collection
- Web Data
tags_raw:
- Data Extraction
- Proxies
- Scraping
- Web Scraping
- Headless Browsers
- AI Agents
- MCP
- LLM
- Data Collection
- Web Data
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scrapingant/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-29'
modified: '2026-08-29'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: scrapingant:scrapingant
  name: ScrapingAnt
  description: ScrapingAnt is a web scraping API service that handles proxy rotation, headless browsers, and CAPTCHA solving
    for reliable web data extraction.
  humanURL: https://scrapingant.com/
  tags:
  - Data Extraction
  - Proxies
  - Scraping
  - Web Scraping
  - AI Agents
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.scrapingant.com/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.scrapingant.com/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.scrapingant.com/api-basics
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.scrapingant.com/request-response-format
  baseURL: https://api.scrapingant.com/v2
- aid: scrapingant:scrapingant-scraping-api
  name: ScrapingAnt Scraping API
  description: The ScrapingAnt web scraping endpoint. GET/POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE /v2/general renders a target URL in headless
    Chrome behind rotating proxies and returns the page HTML; a non-GET method is proxied through to the target site. Contract
    harvested verbatim from https://api.scrapingant.com/openapi.json on 2026-08-29.
  humanURL: https://docs.scrapingant.com/api-basics
  tags:
  - Scraping
  - Web Scraping
  - Headless Browser
  tags_raw:
  - Scraping
  - Web Scraping
  - Headless Browsers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/scrapingant-scraping-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/scrapingant-scraping-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.scrapingant.com/api-basics
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.scrapingant.com/docs
  baseURL: https://api.scrapingant.com
- aid: scrapingant:scrapingant-usage-api
  name: ScrapingAnt Usage API
  description: Account credit metering for ScrapingAnt. GET /v2/usage returns the current plan name, subscription period,
    total plan credits and remaining credits - the only way to observe budget on an API that publishes no rate-limit headers
    and returns an ambiguous 403 when credits are exhausted.
  humanURL: https://docs.scrapingant.com/api-credits-usage
  baseURL: https://api.scrapingant.com
  tags:
  - Usage
  - Billing
  - Metering
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/scrapingant-usage-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.scrapingant.com/api-credits-usage
- aid: scrapingant:scrapingant-mcp-server
  name: ScrapingAnt MCP Server
  description: First-party hosted remote MCP server at https://api.scrapingant.com/mcp/ exposing get_web_page_html, get_web_page_markdown
    and get_web_page_text to MCP clients over streamable HTTP, authenticated with the same x-api-key. tools/list answers anonymously,
    so an agent can read the real input schemas before it holds a key.
  humanURL: https://docs.scrapingant.com/mcp-server
  baseURL: https://api.scrapingant.com/mcp/
  tags:
  - MCP
  - AI Agents
  - Scraping
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/scrapingant-mcp.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/scrapingant-tool-crosswalk.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.scrapingant.com/mcp-server
- aid: scrapingant:scrapingant-general-api
  name: ScrapingAnt General API
  description: The General API from ScrapingAnt — 1 operation(s) for general.
  humanURL: https://scrapingant.com/
  baseURL: https://api.scrapingant.com/v2
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - General
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/scrapingant-general-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/scrapingant-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/scrapingant-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/scrapingant-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/ScrapingAnt
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/scrapingant
- type: Website
  url: https://scrapingant.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.scrapingant.com/
- url: https://scrapingant.com/blog/rss.xml
  type: Blog
- type: Packages
  url: packages/scrapingant-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/scrapingant-packages.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/scrapingant-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/scrapingant-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/scrapingant-llms.txt
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/scrapingant-scraping-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/scrapingant-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/scrapingant-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/scrapingant-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/scrapingant-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/scrapingant-data-model.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/scrapingant-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/scrapingant-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/scrapingant-finops.yml
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.scrapingant.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api.scrapingant.com/docs
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.scrapingant.com/api-basics
- type: Pricing
  url: https://scrapingant.com/#pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.scrapingant.com/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://app.scrapingant.com/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://scrapingant.com/legal/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://scrapingant.com/legal/privacy-policy
- type: Support
  url: https://scrapingant.com/#contact
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/ScrapingAnt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-29'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 18
  pass: local-v1

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