{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "jevcrawl", "name": "jevcrawl", "vendor": "Rayen Mlayeh", "vendorUrl": "https://github.com/RayenMlayeh", "kind": "mcp", "category": "web-scrapers", "summary": "jevcrawl is an open-source MCP server and CLI that crawls a website toward a question and returns only the relevant passages, verbatim with source URLs. TypeSafe's hosted Jev decision model scores the pages, passages and links.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jevcrawl.json", "repo": "https://github.com/RayenMlayeh/jevcrawl", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "stdio" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "jevcrawl" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "A TypeSafe API key in the `TYPESAFE_API_KEY` environment variable, created at console.typesafe.ai, is needed for `crawl`, `map` and `scrape` with a goal. `scrape` without a goal makes no Jev call and works with no key. The README says the key is never written to disk or logs.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "The package is free under Apache-2.0. Decisions are billed by TypeSafe for Jev at $0.042 per million input tokens, with output tokens free. The README gives an average of $0.011 per crawl in its benchmark, and `max_decision_usd` (default $0.05) caps each call. We found no free Jev tier.", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the source or README (checked 2026-10-15). Jev is paid through a TypeSafe account and key.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 3, "popularity": { "githubStars": 60, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 204, "asOf": "2026-10-15" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/RayenMlayeh/jevcrawl#readme", "capabilities": [ "web.crawl", "web.extract", "web.scrape", "scraping.js-render" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "local", "apache-2.0", "python", "mcp", "cli", "agent-skill", "usage-priced", "alpha" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-15", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 63.7, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 409, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1094, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 80, "maintenance": 68, "payments": 30, "reliability": 68, "schema": 81, "security": 59, "transparency": 45 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-15" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Three compact, typed MCP tools return verbatim passages with source URLs, cost and stop reasons, and errors arrive as codes with instructions. The project is three days old and alpha, it depends on TypeSafe's paid Jev API, which is in early access with no free tier found, and it does not block crawls of private or local addresses.", "bestFor": "An agent that must find one answer several clicks deep on a documentation or help site and wants a few thousand tokens back instead of whole pages.", "strengths": [ "Three tools with typed inputs, sensible defaults and descriptions that say when to use `crawl`, `scrape` or `map`", "Every result reports pages fetched, tokens, Jev cost in dollars and why the crawl stopped, with a hard per-call spending cap", "Returned text is copied from the page with URL, heading path, character offsets and a page hash, so quotes can be checked", "174 offline tests, ruff and mypy strict pass in CI on Python 3.11 and 3.13, with PyPI trusted publishing", "Follows robots.txt by default since v0.1.1, and SECURITY.md sets out private reporting with a one-week answer" ], "weaknesses": [ "First released on 13 October 2026, version 0.2.0 and marked alpha, with one maintainer", "`crawl` and `map` need a paid TypeSafe key, and TypeSafe describes Jev as early access with no free tier found", "Page text from every crawl goes to TypeSafe, whose policies give no retention period", "No check against private, loopback or link-local addresses, so an agent can point it at internal hosts", "No MCP tool annotations, no llms.txt and no entry in the official MCP registry" ], "agentNotes": [ "Phrase `goal` as one specific question and start with `max_pages` between 10 and 30", "Check `stats.stopped_because` and `stats.degraded`, and read `uncertain` before reporting that something is missing", "Use `scrape` without a goal when you need a whole page, since it makes no paid Jev call and needs no key", "Handle `{\"error\": code, \"message\": ...}` results, for example `auth_error` means `TYPESAFE_API_KEY` is missing or rejected", "Pages in `stats.needs_js_urls` were not read. Tell the user rather than guessing their content" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 63.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 80, "maintenance": 68, "payments": 30, "reliability": 68, "schema": 81, "security": 59, "transparency": 63 }, "provenanceScore": 27 }, "connect": { "install": "uv tool install jevcrawl", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add jevcrawl -e TYPESAFE_API_KEY=\u003cyour key\u003e -- uvx jevcrawl", "config": { "mcpServers": { "jevcrawl": { "args": [ "jevcrawl" ], "command": "uvx", "env": { "TYPESAFE_API_KEY": "\u003cyour key\u003e" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.crawl", "tool": "https://letme.dev/jevcrawl" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Jev 1.13 input tokens, billed by TypeSafe", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.042, "note": "Output tokens free. The package itself is free" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "github.com/RayenMlayeh", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/RayenMlayeh/jevcrawl/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-15", "notes": [ "An individual's open-source project under Apache-2.0. pyproject.toml names Rayen Mlayeh as author, and the GitHub profile names no company or website.", "No vendor domain. The domain line names the GitHub account and scores no domain age.", "Software the owner runs, so there are no service terms or privacy policy of its own. Page text goes to TypeSafe AI, Inc. under TypeSafe's customer agreement and privacy policy (see the typesafe-jev listing).", "The repository has a SECURITY.md that points to GitHub private vulnerability reporting. No website, so no security.txt.", "The changelog is the GitHub release notes. v0.1.0's notes are only a link to the commit list." ], "score": 27 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl.json" }, "answer": "jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against ScraperAPI's 52.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ScraperAPI leads on payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "scraperapi", "name": "ScraperAPI", "vendor": "ScraperAPI (saas.group)", "vendorUrl": "https://www.scraperapi.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "web-scrapers", "summary": "Web scraping API that fetches a URL through rotating proxies with optional JavaScript rendering and anti-bot bypass, and returns HTML, Markdown, text or parsed JSON. It has async jobs, a crawler, structured data endpoints and an MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scraperapi", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scraperapi.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scraperapi.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scraperapi.json", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.scraperapi.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "scraperapi-mcp-server" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "scraperapi-sdk" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "scraperapi-sdk" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "scraperapi-cli" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Self-serve API key from the dashboard after a browser signup. The sync API takes it as the `api_key` query parameter by default or as an `x-sapi-api_key` header. The async, crawler and AI parser APIs take it in the JSON body, and the remote MCP server takes `Authorization: Bearer`. One key per account, regenerated at most once every 24 hours, with no scopes.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan of 1,000 credits a month with 5 concurrent threads, and 5,000 credits for the first 7 days, no card. Hobby $49 a month (100,000 credits, 20 threads), Startup $149 (1 million, 50), Business $299 (3 million, 100), Scaling $475 (5 million, 200), Professional $975 (10.5 million, 300), Advanced $1,975 (21.5 million, 500), Enterprise custom. Annual billing takes 10% off. A plain request costs 1 credit, rendering or premium proxies 10, Google and Bing 25. Only 200 and 404 responses are charged. Pay-as-you-go overage starts at Scaling (https://www.scraperapi.com/pricing/).", "priceSummary": "$49 / mo", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index, the pricing page or llms.txt (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 28, "popularity": { "githubStars": 5, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.scraperapi.com/", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.scraperapi.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "web.scrape", "web.extract", "web.crawl", "scraping.proxies", "scraping.js-render", "scraping.anti-bot", "scraping.screenshot", "scraping.serp" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "api-key", "mcp", "llms-txt", "proxies", "async-jobs", "webhooks", "cli", "python", "javascript", "php", "ruby", "java", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 52.1, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 795, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1094, "categoryRank": 16, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 74, "maintenance": 61, "payments": 40, "reliability": 45, "schema": 67, "security": 29, "transparency": 54 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "One GET request with a key and a URL returns a page, and the MCP server's 28 tools carry read-only and destructive hints. No status page, OpenAPI file, security.txt or certification was found, and the documented default puts the API key in the URL query string.", "bestFor": "Agents that want a single GET to fetch pages through proxies, with parsed JSON for Amazon, Google, Walmart, eBay and Redfin and a batch API of up to 50,000 URLs.", "strengths": [ "Only `api_key` and `url` are required, and JavaScript rendering is off by default, so a plain request costs 1 credit", "Failed requests are not charged. Only 200 and 404 responses are billed, and each response carries an `sa-credit-cost` header", "`max_cost` caps the credits one request may spend, and `/account/urlcost` returns the cost of a URL before it is scraped", "The open-source MCP server (MIT) defines 28 typed tools, each with read-only, destructive and idempotent hints", "Free plan of 1,000 credits a month with no card, plus 5,000 credits for the first 7 days" ], "weaknesses": [ "No status page is linked from the home, pricing, support or docs pages, although the pricing page lists a 99.9% uptime guarantee", "The documented default sends the API key in the URL query string. A header alternative, `x-sapi-api_key`, exists", "No OpenAPI file, security.txt, bug bounty, certification or sub-processor list was found", "The site's robots.txt disallows `/terms/`, so the Terms of Use went unread by us", "Google and Bing cost 25 credits a request and LinkedIn 30, and a bypassed anti-bot check adds 10" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set the client timeout to 70 seconds. The API retries for that long before it returns 500, and a request cancelled earlier is still charged", "Send the key as the `x-sapi-api_key` header to keep it out of URLs and logs", "Pass `max_cost` on each request, or call `/account/urlcost` first, because domain and anti-bot surcharges vary from 1 to 75 credits", "Use `output_format=markdown` or `text` to cut response size, and `autoparse=true` only on supported domains", "On 429 reduce concurrency to the plan limit (5 on Free, 20 on Hobby). The request is rejected, not queued" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 52.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 74, "maintenance": 61, "payments": 40, "reliability": 45, "schema": 67, "security": 29, "transparency": 35 }, "provenanceScore": 72 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install scraperapi-mcp-server", "http": "curl --request GET \\\n--url 'https://api.scraperapi.com?api_key=API_KEY\u0026url=https://www.example.com'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add scraperapi -- npx mcp-remote https://mcp.scraperapi.com/mcp --header \"Authorization: Bearer {YOUR_API_KEY}\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "ScraperAPIRemote": { "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.scraperapi.com/mcp", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer {YOUR_API_KEY}" ], "command": "npx" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.scrape", "tool": "https://letme.dev/scraperapi" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Hobby plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 49, "note": "100,000 credits, 20 concurrent threads" }, { "item": "Startup plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 149, "note": "1 million credits, 50 concurrent threads" }, { "item": "Business plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 299, "note": "3 million credits, 100 concurrent threads" }, { "item": "Plain request on Hobby", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.49, "note": "1 credit each, no rendering" }, { "item": "Rendered request on Hobby", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 4.9, "note": "render=true, 10 credits each" }, { "item": "Google or Bing request on Hobby", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 12.25, "note": "25 credits each" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "ScraperAPI LLC", "domain": "scraperapi.com", "domainRegistered": "2018-05-14", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.scraperapi.com/terms/", "privacy": "https://www.scraperapi.com/privacy/", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://docs.scraperapi.com/resources/release-notes", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The legal entity is taken from a November 2025 release note that says the service now operates as ScraperAPI LLC. The privacy policy names ScraperAPI and Saas.group Inc. and carries no date.", "robots.txt disallows `/terms/` for every agent, so the Terms of Use were not read. The link is the one in the site footer.", "No status page is linked from the home, pricing, support or docs pages read on 9 October 2026." ], "score": 72 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scraperapi.json", "live": { "slug": "scraperapi", "probe": { "target": "https://api.scraperapi.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-15T11:30:09.418157792Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 274, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 281, "p95ms24h": 412, "samples24h": 254, "samples30d": 1446, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 85, "ok": 85 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 123, "ok": 123 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "scraperapi-cli", "version": "1.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-15T00:19:49.097309947Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "scraperapi-sdk", "version": "2.0.1", "seenAt": "2026-10-15T00:19:48.311975709Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "scraperapi-mcp-server", "version": "1.1.1", "released": "2026-07-17", "seenAt": "2026-10-15T00:19:46.231746069Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "scraperapi-sdk", "version": "1.6.1", "released": "2026-07-20", "seenAt": "2026-10-15T00:19:46.414172425Z" } ], "npmWeekly": 15884, "pypiWeekly": 28, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://scraperapi.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T15:46:53.784018119Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.scraperapi.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T14:15:02.78913361Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "scraperapi.com", "registered": "2018-05-14", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/scraperapi.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:15:22.063297096Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.scraperapi.com/resources/release-notes", "kind": "changelog", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T20:59:23.536738394Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "4aebcdd45c58" }, { "url": "https://www.scraperapi.com/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:16:53.967100317Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-13T20:31:43.227356571Z", "fingerprint": "44573b8fc12d" }, { "url": "https://www.scraperapi.com/privacy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:16:56.217340663Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-13T20:31:45.532386274Z", "fingerprint": "487e967f92ce" }, { "url": "https://www.scraperapi.com/terms/", "kind": "terms", "status": 0, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:16:59.921241899Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "blockedByRobots": true } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T11:30:09.418157792Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "MCP server", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Rayen Mlayeh", "b": "ScraperAPI (saas.group)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://api.scraperapi.com", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "stdio", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0", "b": "none", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "3", "b": "28", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-15", "b": "2026-08-07", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "60 stars, 204 PyPI/wk", "b": "5 stars", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against ScraperAPI's 52.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ScraperAPI leads on payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, jevcrawl or ScraperAPI?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do jevcrawl and ScraperAPI need an API key?" }, { "answer": "jevcrawl runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. ScraperAPI has a hosted endpoint at https://api.scraperapi.com.", "question": "Can an agent call jevcrawl and ScraperAPI without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "jevcrawl is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for ScraperAPI.", "question": "Are jevcrawl and ScraperAPI open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 68 against 45", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 81 against 67", "Agent ergonomics, 80 against 74", "Security \u0026 auth, 59 against 29", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 68 against 61" ], "also": [ "Open source" ], "goodFor": "An agent that must find one answer several clicks deep on a documentation or help site and wants a few thousand tokens back instead of whole pages.", "slug": "jevcrawl", "watchFor": "First released on 13 October 2026, version 0.2.0 and marked alpha, with one maintainer" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 54 against 45" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "Agents that want a single GET to fetch pages through proxies, with parsed JSON for Amazon, Google, Walmart, eBay and Redfin and a batch API of up to 50,000 URLs.", "slug": "scraperapi", "watchFor": "No status page is linked from the home, pricing, support or docs pages, although the pricing page lists a 99.9% uptime guarantee" } ], "job": { "capability": "web.crawl", "name": "Crawling" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-jevcrawl.json", "title": "Bright Data vs jevcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-jevcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scraperapi.json", "title": "Bright Data vs ScraperAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scraperapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-jevcrawl.json", "title": "Context.dev vs jevcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-jevcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-scraperapi.json", "title": "Context.dev vs ScraperAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-scraperapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-jina-reader.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Jina Reader", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-jina-reader" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Oxylabs Web Scraper API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrape-do.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Scrape.do", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrape-do" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapingant.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs ScrapingAnt", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapingant" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapingbee.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs ScrapingBee", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapingbee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapingdog.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Scrapingdog", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapingdog" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-zyte.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-scraperapi.json", "title": "Jina Reader vs ScraperAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-scraperapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-scraperapi.json", "title": "Olostep vs ScraperAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-scraperapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-scraperapi.json", "title": "Oxylabs Web Scraper API vs ScraperAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/oxylabs-web-scraper-vs-scraperapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scraperapi.json", "title": "Scrape.do vs ScraperAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scraperapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapegraphai-vs-scraperapi.json", "title": "ScrapeGraphAI vs ScraperAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapegraphai-vs-scraperapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeless-vs-scraperapi.json", "title": "Scrapeless vs ScraperAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeless-vs-scraperapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "ScraperAPI vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-scrapingant.json", "title": "ScraperAPI vs ScrapingAnt", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-scrapingant" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-scrapingbee.json", "title": "ScraperAPI vs ScrapingBee", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-scrapingbee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-scrapingdog.json", "title": "ScraperAPI vs Scrapingdog", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-scrapingdog" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-spider-cloud.json", "title": "ScraperAPI vs Spider", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-spider-cloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "ScraperAPI vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-zyte.json", "title": "ScraperAPI vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-jevcrawl.json", "title": "Apify MCP Server vs jevcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-jevcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-scraperapi.json", "title": "Apify MCP Server vs ScraperAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-scraperapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-jevcrawl.json", "title": "Firecrawl MCP vs jevcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-jevcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-olostep.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Olostep", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-olostep" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapegraphai.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs ScrapeGraphAI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapegraphai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapeless.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Scrapeless", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapeless" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-spider-cloud.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Spider", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-spider-cloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-jevcrawl.json", "title": "Diffbot vs jevcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-jevcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scraperapi.json", "title": "Diffbot vs ScraperAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scraperapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-scraperapi.json", "title": "Firecrawl MCP vs ScraperAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-scraperapi" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 23, "edge": "jevcrawl", "jevcrawl": 68, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "scraperapi": 45, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 14, "edge": "jevcrawl", "jevcrawl": 81, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "scraperapi": 67, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 6, "edge": "jevcrawl", "jevcrawl": 80, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "scraperapi": 74, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 30, "edge": "jevcrawl", "jevcrawl": 59, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "scraperapi": 29, "weight": 14 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No status page, OpenAPI file, security.txt or certification was found, and the documented default puts the API key in the URL query string." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scraperapi", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scraperapi.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scraperapi.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scraperapi.min.md" }, "markdown": "jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against ScraperAPI's 52.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ScraperAPI leads on payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do crawling.\n\n- jevcrawl: grade B, 63.7/100, rank #409 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jevcrawl.json\n- ScraperAPI: grade D, 52.1/100, rank #795 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scraperapi.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scraperapi.json\n- Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/web-scrapers/index.md\n- All 204 scrapers comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/web-scrapers/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### jevcrawl (B)\n\nGood for: An agent that must find one answer several clicks deep on a documentation or help site and wants a few thousand tokens back instead of whole pages.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 68 against 45\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 81 against 67\n- Agent ergonomics, 80 against 74\n- Security \u0026 auth, 59 against 29\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 68 against 61\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: First released on 13 October 2026, version 0.2.0 and marked alpha, with one maintainer\n\n### ScraperAPI (D)\n\nGood for: Agents that want a single GET to fetch pages through proxies, with parsed JSON for Amazon, Google, Walmart, eBay and Redfin and a batch API of up to 50,000 URLs.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 54 against 45\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: No status page is linked from the home, pricing, support or docs pages, although the pricing page lists a 99.9% uptime guarantee\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | jevcrawl | ScraperAPI | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 68 | 45 | jevcrawl +23 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 67 | jevcrawl +14 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 74 | jevcrawl +6 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 59 | 29 | jevcrawl +30 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 40 | ScraperAPI +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 61 | jevcrawl +7 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 54 | ScraperAPI +9 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **63.7 · B** | **52.1 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | jevcrawl | ScraperAPI |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Rayen Mlayeh | ScraperAPI (saas.group) |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.scraperapi.com` |\n| Transports | stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | none |\n| Tools exposed | 3 | 28 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-08-07 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | 60 stars, 204 PyPI/wk | 5 stars |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**jevcrawl.** Three compact, typed MCP tools return verbatim passages with source URLs, cost and stop reasons, and errors arrive as codes with instructions. The project is three days old and alpha, it depends on TypeSafe's paid Jev API, which is in early access with no free tier found, and it does not block crawls of private or local addresses.\n\n**ScraperAPI.** One GET request with a key and a URL returns a page, and the MCP server's 28 tools carry read-only and destructive hints. No status page, OpenAPI file, security.txt or certification was found, and the documented default puts the API key in the URL query string.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### jevcrawl\n\n1. Phrase `goal` as one specific question and start with `max_pages` between 10 and 30\n2. Check `stats.stopped_because` and `stats.degraded`, and read `uncertain` before reporting that something is missing\n3. Use `scrape` without a goal when you need a whole page, since it makes no paid Jev call and needs no key\n4. Handle `{\"error\": code, \"message\": ...}` results, for example `auth_error` means `TYPESAFE_API_KEY` is missing or rejected\n5. Pages in `stats.needs_js_urls` were not read. Tell the user rather than guessing their content\n\n### ScraperAPI\n\n1. Set the client timeout to 70 seconds. The API retries for that long before it returns 500, and a request cancelled earlier is still charged\n2. Send the key as the `x-sapi-api_key` header to keep it out of URLs and logs\n3. Pass `max_cost` on each request, or call `/account/urlcost` first, because domain and anti-bot surcharges vary from 1 to 75 credits\n4. Use `output_format=markdown` or `text` to cut response size, and `autoparse=true` only on supported domains\n5. On 429 reduce concurrency to the plan limit (5 on Free, 20 on Hobby). The request is rejected, not queued\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, jevcrawl or ScraperAPI?\n\njevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against ScraperAPI's 52.1 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ScraperAPI leads on payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do jevcrawl and ScraperAPI need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call jevcrawl and ScraperAPI without installing anything?\n\njevcrawl runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. ScraperAPI has a hosted endpoint at https://api.scraperapi.com.\n\n### Are jevcrawl and ScraperAPI open source?\n\njevcrawl is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for ScraperAPI.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scraperapi.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-scraperapi.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"jevcrawl\", \"b\": \"scraperapi\"}`. 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