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ScrapingBee

ScrapingBee is a France-based web scraping API that handles headless browsers, proxy rotation, anti-bot defenses, and CAPTCHA solving so developers can extract data from any website with a single API call. The platform exposes a unified HTML scraping endpoint alongside dedicated APIs for Google Search, Amazon, Walmart, YouTube, and ChatGPT, with JavaScript rendering, AI-powered data extraction, screenshots, and an MCP server for agentic workflows.

ScrapingBee publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Google Search API API and HTML API API. Tagged areas include AI Extraction, Anti-Bot, Data Aggregation, Data Extraction, and Headless Browser.

ScrapingBee’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, getting-started guide, pricing, engineering blog, signup flow, support, and 19 more developer resources.

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57.9/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 41/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
6 APIs 1 MCP Servers
AI ExtractionAnti-BotData AggregationData ExtractionHeadless BrowserJavaScript RenderingProxy RotationScreenshotsSearch EngineWeb Scraping

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 57.9/100 · strong
Contract Quality 15.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 11.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 16.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 41/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
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
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APIs 6

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

ScrapingBee Google Search API

The Google Search API returns structured JSON SERP data covering organic results, knowledge graph, featured snippets, related searches, news, maps, image results, and ads. Suppo...

ScrapingBee Data Extraction API

The Data Extraction API layers structured-data extraction rules on top of HTML API calls so callers receive parsed JSON instead of raw HTML. Supports CSS selectors, XPath expres...

ScrapingBee AI Web Scraping API

The AI Web Scraping API leverages LLM-driven extraction to lift content from web pages by expressing what you need in plain English via the ai_query parameter, with no CSS selec...

ScrapingBee Screenshot API

The Screenshot API captures full-page or viewport screenshots of any URL using headless Chrome, with control over viewport size, full_page rendering, image format, and combinati...

ScrapingBee Google Search API API

Structured Google SERP results (web, news, maps, images).

ScrapingBee HTML API API

Headless-browser scraping with proxy rotation, screenshots, and AI extraction.

Postman Collections 2

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

ScrapingBee Google Search API API

POSTMAN

ScrapingBee Google Search API HTML API API

POSTMAN

Open Collections 1

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

ScrapingBee API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

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

mcp-server

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Scrapingbee Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Scrapingbee Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Scrapingbee Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

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

Scrapingbee Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Scrapingbee Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Scrapingbee Agentic Access

3 operations · 1 acting

3 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted
GettingStarted
 Signup
Signup
 Login
Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess
 MCPServer
MCPServer

Build 6

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace
PostmanWorkspace
 GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization
 PythonSDK
PythonSDK
 NodeSDK
NodeSDK
 CLI
CLI
 PostmanCollection
PostmanCollection

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support
 Status
Status
 ChangeLog
ChangeLog
 RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy
 Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: scrapingbee
name: ScrapingBee
description: ScrapingBee is a France-based web scraping API that handles headless browsers, proxy rotation, anti-bot defenses,
  and CAPTCHA solving so developers can extract data from any website with a single API call. The platform exposes a unified
  HTML scraping endpoint alongside dedicated APIs for Google Search, Amazon, Walmart, YouTube, and ChatGPT, with JavaScript
  rendering, AI-powered data extraction, screenshots, and an MCP server for agentic workflows.
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/scrapingbee.png
tags:
- AI Extraction
- Anti-Bot
- Data Aggregation
- Data Extraction
- Headless Browser
- JavaScript Rendering
- Proxy Rotation
- Screenshots
- Search Engine
- Web Scraping
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scrapingbee/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-26'
modified: '2026-05-25'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: scrapingbee:google-search-api
  name: ScrapingBee Google Search API
  description: The Google Search API returns structured JSON SERP data covering organic results, knowledge graph, featured
    snippets, related searches, news, maps, image results, and ads. Supports search_type (web, news, maps, images), country_code
    localization, light_request mode for cheaper faster queries, full_html alongside structured output, and any extra Google
    query parameters (gl, hl, num, start).
  humanURL: https://www.scrapingbee.com/documentation/google/
  baseURL: https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/google
  tags:
  - Search Engine
  - SERP
  - Google
  - Structured Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.scrapingbee.com/documentation/google/
- aid: scrapingbee:data-extraction-api
  name: ScrapingBee Data Extraction API
  description: The Data Extraction API layers structured-data extraction rules on top of HTML API calls so callers receive
    parsed JSON instead of raw HTML. Supports CSS selectors, XPath expressions, nested objects and arrays, attribute extraction,
    and AI-powered natural-language extraction where you describe what you need in plain English.
  humanURL: https://www.scrapingbee.com/features/data-extraction/
  baseURL: https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - AI Extraction
  - Data Extraction
  - Structured Data
  - CSS Selectors
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.scrapingbee.com/documentation/data-extraction/
- aid: scrapingbee:ai-extraction-api
  name: ScrapingBee AI Web Scraping API
  description: The AI Web Scraping API leverages LLM-driven extraction to lift content from web pages by expressing what you
    need in plain English via the ai_query parameter, with no CSS selectors, XPath, or parsing code required. Supports JSON
    and Markdown output for downstream agentic use.
  humanURL: https://www.scrapingbee.com/features/ai-web-scraping-api/
  baseURL: https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - AI
  - LLM
  - Data Extraction
  - Natural Language
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.scrapingbee.com/documentation/
- aid: scrapingbee:screenshot-api
  name: ScrapingBee Screenshot API
  description: The Screenshot API captures full-page or viewport screenshots of any URL using headless Chrome, with control
    over viewport size, full_page rendering, image format, and combination with JavaScript scenarios for capturing post-interaction
    states.
  humanURL: https://www.scrapingbee.com/features/screenshot-api/
  baseURL: https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Screenshots
  - Headless Browser
  - Image Capture
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.scrapingbee.com/documentation/#screenshot
- aid: scrapingbee:scrapingbee-google-search-api-api
  name: ScrapingBee Google Search API API
  description: Structured Google SERP results (web, news, maps, images).
  humanURL: https://www.scrapingbee.com
  baseURL: https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Google Search API
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/scrapingbee-google-search-api-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.scrapingbee.com/documentation/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.scrapingbee.com/documentation/#quickstart
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.scrapingbee.com/documentation/#authentication
- aid: scrapingbee:scrapingbee-html-api-api
  name: ScrapingBee HTML API API
  description: Headless-browser scraping with proxy rotation, screenshots, and AI extraction.
  humanURL: https://www.scrapingbee.com
  baseURL: https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - HTML API
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/scrapingbee-html-api-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.scrapingbee.com/documentation/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.scrapingbee.com/documentation/#quickstart
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.scrapingbee.com/documentation/#authentication
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/scrapingbee/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/scrapingbee-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/scrapingbee-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/scrapingbee-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.scrapingbee.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.scrapingbee.com/documentation/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.scrapingbee.com/documentation/#quickstart
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.scrapingbee.com/pricing/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.scrapingbee.com/blog/
- type: Signup
  url: https://app.scrapingbee.com/account/register
- type: Login
  url: https://app.scrapingbee.com/account/login
- type: Support
  url: https://help.scrapingbee.com
- type: Status
  url: https://status.scrapingbee.com
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://www.scrapingbee.com/changelog/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.scrapingbee.com/terms-and-conditions/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.scrapingbee.com/privacy-policy/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/ScrapingBee
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/scrapingbee
- type: PythonSDK
  url: https://github.com/ScrapingBee/scrapingbee-python
- type: NodeSDK
  url: https://github.com/ScrapingBee/scrapingbee-node
- type: CLI
  url: https://github.com/ScrapingBee/scrapingbee-cli
- type: PostmanCollection
  url: https://www.postman.com/api-evangelist/scraping/documentation/ygpc6xm/scrapingbee
- type: MCPServer
  url: https://github.com/ScrapingBee/mcp-server
- type: Integrations
  url: https://github.com/ScrapingBee/scrapingbee-n8n
- type: Integrations
  url: https://github.com/ScrapingBee/scrapy-scrapingbee
- type: Integrations
  url: https://github.com/ScrapingBee/langchain-scrapingbee
- type: Plans
  url: plans/scrapingbee-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/scrapingbee-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/scrapingbee-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com