What is an API Credit?

Each plan gives a certain amount of API credits per month. Depending on the parameters you use with your API calls it will cost you from one to several credits. By default, each request costs 5 credits because JavaScript rendering is enabled by default.

ScrapingBee

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Overview

ScrapingBee is a web scraping API designed to simplify data extraction from websites. It manages headless browsers and rotates proxies, eliminating the complexities of dealing with anti-bot measures. ScrapingBee offers features like JavaScript rendering, custom JavaScript snippets, and AI-powered data extraction. It converts HTML to various formats, including JSON and Markdown, and allows users to extract specific data using extraction rules or plain English descriptions. It's suitable for general web scraping tasks, price monitoring, extracting reviews, and scraping search engine results pages. ScrapingBee targets developers, data scientists, and businesses needing reliable and efficient web scraping capabilities without managing infrastructure.

Common tasks

General web scraping Data extraction in JSON format JavaScript rendering for dynamic websites AI-powered web scraping Taking website screenshots Scraping search engine result pages (SERPs)Rotating proxies to avoid blocking

FAQ

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What happens if a request fails?

ScrapingBee only charges for successful requests, i.e. those returning with a 200 or 404 status code.

I need more than 41,000,000 credits per month!

Contact ScrapingBee at contact@scrapingbee.com to discuss a custom plan.

I need to scroll or click on a button on the page I want to scrape?

Use the js_scenario parameter to pass any JavaScript snippet that needs to be executed.

I'm not a developer, can you create custom scraping scripts for me?

ScrapingBee doesn't create custom scraping scripts but will provide code snippets to help users use the data extraction and JavaScript scenario features.

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