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 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Scraping API and Usage API. Tagged areas include Data Extraction, Proxies, Scraping, Web Scraping, and Headless Browsers.

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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52.6/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 35/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-15 · rubric v0.22.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

2 APIs 1 MCP Servers

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

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scored 2026-09-15 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 52.6/100 · developing

Contract Quality 12.8 / 23

Developer Ergonomics 11.5 / 18

Access Clarity 13.0 / 18

Operational Transparency 4.0 / 12

Contract Governance 0.5 / 11

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 35/100 · 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

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 4

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...

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
tags:
- 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 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
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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