WebScraping.AI API

Development / API Key Intermediate HTTPS CORS
Varies by plan (check documentation)

Overview

WebScraping.AI is a web scraping API that handles JavaScript rendering, proxy rotation, and CAPTCHA bypassing automatically, so you get clean HTML or text from any webpage with a single request. It removes the complexity of managing headless browsers and proxy infrastructure yourself. A free tier is available for testing, making it accessible for beginners who need structured web data.

Beginner Tip

Use the ?url= parameter to target any webpage, and add &js=true to enable JavaScript rendering for sites that load content dynamically — but note that JS rendering uses more credits.

Available Data

WebScraping.AI data via REST API

Example Response

JSON Response
{
  "status": "success",
  "data": {
    "result": "Data from WebScraping.AI",
    "description": "Web Scraping API with built-in proxies and JS rendering",
    "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:00:00Z"
  }
}

Field Reference

response body (HTML) Full HTML source of the target page, optionally rendered with JavaScript
HTTP 200 Successful scrape; the body contains the page content
X-Proxies-Used header Indicates which proxy was used to fetch the page

Implementation Example

Request
const url = "https://webscraping.ai/";
// Replace headers or query params with the values required by this API.
const response = await fetch(url, {
  headers: {
  "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
  }
});
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

What Can You Build?

Note: These code examples are AI-generated and unverified. Always refer to the official API documentation for accurate usage.

Common Errors & Troubleshooting

401 Unauthorized API key is missing or invalid
Include your api_key as a query parameter: ?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY; find your key in the WebScraping.AI dashboard
422 Invalid URL The target url parameter is malformed or missing the protocol
Ensure the url value is URL-encoded and includes the full protocol, e.g., https://example.com
429 Too Many Requests or credits exhausted Free-tier credit limit reached
Monitor your credit usage in the dashboard; reduce JS rendering usage (&js=false) to conserve credits, or upgrade your plan

Metadata Score Breakdown

Estimated from metadata — endpoint not independently tested

This score is estimated from observable metadata — HTTPS support, authentication model, declared CORS, and documentation reachability — because the API requires authentication or exposes no publicly testable endpoint. The five-signal breakdown is only shown for live-tested APIs.

Metadata estimate · endpoint not independently tested

Technical Specifications

Auth API Key
HTTPS REQUIRED
CORS YES
Category Development
Difficulty Intermediate
Verified: 2026-04-04

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