Crawlbase

The Crawling API accepts URLs and returns page content (raw HTML or JS-rendered), handling redirects, CAPTCHA challenges, and proxy rotation transparently. The Scraper API provides structured data extraction for common site types (Amazon, LinkedIn, Google search). The Storage API enables async scraping at scale with batch job submission and result retrieval. Agents can scrape pages synchronously for real-time data needs or asynchronously for bulk extraction jobs.

Reliability is vendor-managed for the proxy and rendering infrastructure. CAPTCHA solving and proxy rotation success rates vary by target site — some sites actively work to block scraping infrastructure. Teams building production scraping pipelines should implement retry logic and fallback strategies for failed extractions.

Crawlbase is a web scraping API that handles the infrastructure complexity of large-scale web data extraction — JavaScript rendering, CAPTCHA solving, and rotating residential/datacenter proxies — behind a simple REST API. For agents that need to extract web data without managing headless browser fleets or proxy infrastructure, Crawlbase abstracts these concerns into an API call. The Scraper API returns raw HTML or rendered page content; the Storage API enables async scraping jobs with result retrieval.

Authentication uses API tokens passed as query parameters or request headers. Tokens are account-level. Usage is metered by successful requests — different credit costs apply for standard vs JavaScript-rendered scraping. Teams should implement appropriate rate limiting in their agents to control costs and avoid account suspension.

Documentation covers the API endpoints, response formats, and site-specific scrapers. The credit consumption documentation is important for estimating costs. Teams evaluating Crawlbase versus Bright Data or Zyte for web scraping should compare the proxy network quality, CAPTCHA solving reliability, and pricing per successful request.