ScraperAPI is a data extraction software that simplifies the complex process of web scraping by handling technical aspects like proxies, browsers, and CAPTCHAs. This allows users to acquire HTML from any web page through a straightforward API call.
It eliminates the need for dealing with proxies and rotating IP addresses, offering over 40 million IPs worldwide, 50+ geolocations, a 99.9% uptime guarantee, and unlimited bandwidth. Its built-in anti-bot detection ensures your requests aren’t blocked, while automatic pruning of slow proxies ensures speed and reliability.
Designed for scalability, it caters to scraping needs ranging from 100 to 100 million pages per month. ScraperAPI also provides customization options, supporting JS rendering, IP geolocation, residential proxies, and more. It supports various programming languages, including Python, NodeJS, PHP, Ruby, and Java. Besides, ScraperAPI is appreciated for its user-friendly nature, generous free tier, cost-effectiveness, and responsive tech support.
The legality of web scraping depends on the specific website you are scraping and the data you are collecting. It is always best to check the website's terms of service before scraping any data.
ScraperAPI is proxy solution for web scraping.It is designed to make scraping the web at scale as simple as possible by removing the hassle of finding high quality proxies, rotating proxy pools, detecting bans, solving CAPTCHAs, managing geotargeting and rendering javascript.
With ScraperAPI you simply send a request to either our simple REST API interface or our proxy port and we will return the HTML response from the target website.
ScraperAPI automatically rotates residential and datacenter proxies to avoid rate limits or bans. You don't need to manage or buy proxies separately; they are included in the service.
Yes, ScraperAPI detects and solves CAPTCHAs automatically, so developers don't need to handle CAPTCHA challenges themselves.
Integration is simple—just send HTTP requests to ScraperAPI’s endpoint with your URL and desired options (e.g., proxies, rendering settings). You will get a clean response with the scraped data.
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