Zyte

The Zyte API covers Automatic Extraction (AI-detected structured data), HTML fetching with smart proxy rotation, browser rendering, and screenshot capture. Agents can request product data extraction and receive structured price, title, image, and description fields without writing a single XPath or CSS selector. For pages not covered by automatic extraction, the raw HTML fetch with smart proxy management ensures reliable access.

Reliability is production-grade for a platform built specifically for web scraping at scale. Zyte's smart proxy system routes requests through appropriate proxy pools based on the target site's characteristics. The AI extraction models are maintained and updated to handle site changes that would break custom parsers.

Zyte (formerly Scrapy Cloud) is a comprehensive web scraping platform combining smart proxy management, AI-powered automatic data extraction, and cloud-hosted Scrapy execution. The Zyte API's Automatic Extraction feature uses AI to identify and extract structured data (products, articles, job listings) from any page without custom parser code — agents submit a URL and receive structured product or article data. This is particularly powerful for agents that need structured web data without building and maintaining site-specific scrapers.

Authentication uses API keys for the REST API. Usage is metered by request type — automatic extraction requests cost more than raw fetches due to AI processing. The credit model requires monitoring to control costs in high-volume scraping workflows.

Documentation covers the API endpoints, automatic extraction capabilities, and Scrapy integration. The automatic extraction field documentation — explaining what data types Zyte AI can extract from different page types — is critical for evaluating fit. Teams evaluating Zyte versus Apify or Bright Data for web scraping should compare the automatic extraction AI quality against the cost per request and the platform's Scrapy-native execution environment.