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 6 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Google Search API, HTML API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include AI Extraction, Anti-Bot, Data Aggregation, Data Extraction, and Browser Automation.

The ScrapingBee catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

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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47.9/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 23/100 agent aware Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 93/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 published contract 1 MCP Servers

AI ExtractionAnti-Bot Data Aggregation Data Extraction Browser Automation JavaScript RenderingProxy RotationScreenshots Search Engines Web Scraping

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 47.9/100 · developing

Contract Quality 9.3 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 7.9 / 15

Access Clarity 11.6 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.0 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 4.9 / 8

Regulatory Posture 2.9 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 23/100 · 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

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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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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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 49.6 — up to +12.6 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 10.5 — up to +11.6 composite points
Contract Governance scores 13.6 — up to +10.4 composite points

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Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

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

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

ScrapingBee HTML 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 3

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

ScrapingBee Google Search API API

OPEN COLLECTION

ScrapingBee Google Search API HTML API API

OPEN COLLECTION

ScrapingBee API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

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

ScrapingBee MCP Server

MCP SERVER

ScrapingBee API pricing

Prices published by ScrapingBee, read 2026-10-28 from www.scrapingbee.com/pricing/.

Plan	Price
Hobby	$19/mo Includes: API Credits: 75,000; Concurrent requests: 25
Freelance	$49/mo Includes: API Credits: 250,000; Concurrent requests: 50
Startup	$99/mo Includes: API Credits: 1,000,000; Concurrent requests: 100
Business	$249/mo Includes: API Credits: 3,000,000; Concurrent requests: 200
Business +	$599/mo Includes: API Credits: 8,000,000; Concurrent requests: 400
Enterprise 14	$999/mo Includes: API Credits: 14,000,000; Concurrent requests: 500
Enterprise 24	$1,599/mo Includes: API Credits: 24,000,000; Concurrent requests: 600
Enterprise 41	$2,399/mo Includes: API Credits: 41,000,000; Concurrent requests: 700

All 10 plans, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against ScrapingBee's documentation. All 5 limits →

Billed by: api credits · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Scrapingbee Plans Pricing

10 plans

PLANS

Scrapingbee Price Estimates

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Scrapingbee Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

ScrapingBee

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Scrapingbee Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

ScrapingBee API Rules

60 rules · 58 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

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

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Signup

Signup

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

PythonSDK

NodeSDK

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

Status

ChangeLog

RateLimits

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Source (apis.yml)

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
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: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/scrapingbee.png
tags:
- AI Extraction
- Anti-Bot
- Data Aggregation
- Data Extraction
- Browser Automation
- JavaScript Rendering
- Proxy Rotation
- Screenshots
- Search Engines
- Web Scraping
tags_raw:
- 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: '2026-09-16'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
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 Engines
  - SERP
  - Google
  - Structured Data
  tags_raw:
  - 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:
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - LLM
  - Data Extraction
  - Natural-Language
  tags_raw:
  - 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
  - Browser Automation
  - Image Capture
  tags_raw:
  - 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
  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
  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

ScrapingBee — frequently asked questions

Does ScrapingBee have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 6 APIs from ScrapingBee, including ScrapingBee Google Search API, ScrapingBee Data Extraction API and ScrapingBee AI Web Scraping API, and 3 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the ScrapingBee?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for ScrapingBee, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the ScrapingBee?

ScrapingBee uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Scrapingbee Authentication.

How much does the ScrapingBee cost?

ScrapingBee publishes its prices; its Hobby plan is $19/mo as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 10 pricing plans for ScrapingBee, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does ScrapingBee have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for ScrapingBee.

Is the ScrapingBee ready for AI agents?

ScrapingBee has a Kin Score of 47.9 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 22.7 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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