# ScrapingBee

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/scrapingbee/  
**Website:** https://www.scrapingbee.com  
**APIs profiled:** 6

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.

## Kin Score — 44.2 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 44.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 56.6 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 52.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 53.9 |
| Access Clarity | 53.9 |

## Agent readiness — 33.2 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (6)

- **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.

## MCP servers (1)

- **ScrapingBee MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Scrapingbee Agentic Access** — 3 operations · 1 acting

## Security (2)

- **Scrapingbee Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Scrapingbee Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Scrapingbee Plans Pricing**

## Tags

AI Extraction, Anti-Bot, Data Aggregation, Data Extraction, Headless Browser, JavaScript Rendering, Proxy Rotation, Screenshots, Search Engines, Web Scraping

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/scrapingbee/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.