{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "scrapingbee", "name": "ScrapingBee", "vendor": "ScrapingBee (Oxylabs group)", "vendorUrl": "https://www.scrapingbee.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "web-scrapers", "summary": "HTML API that fetches a URL through rotating, premium or stealth proxies with headless rendering, JavaScript scenarios, screenshots and CSS or AI extraction.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingbee", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingbee.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingbee.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingbee.json", "dns": "scrapingbee.grade.anchorterminal.com", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "scrapingbee" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "scrapingbee" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "scrapingbee-cli" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "The HTML API takes the key as a Bearer token in the Authorization header, and the Python (v2.2.0) and Node (v2.0.0) SDKs send it that way since 1 September 2026. The older api_key query parameter still works but is deprecated. remote-mcp.txt says the hosted MCP takes the key only as an api_key query parameter in its URL, \"not a Bearer header\", while the MCP configurations in the official CLI repository's Cursor, Kiro and Antigravity plugins (October 2026) send a Bearer header.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Trial of 1,000 credits, no card. Hobby $19 a month (75,000 credits, 25 concurrent), Freelance $49 (250,000, 50), Startup $99 (1 million, 100), Business $249 (3 million, 200), Business+ $599 (8 million, 400), and Enterprise plans from $999 (14 million, 500) to $5,799 (120 million, 900), excluding VAT. JavaScript rendering is on by default, so a basic call costs 5 credits, 1 without rendering, 10 or 25 with premium proxies and 75 with stealth proxies. Google search costs 10 credits (https://www.scrapingbee.com/pricing/).", "priceSummary": "$19 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 in the pricing page, llms.txt or the HTML API and MCP references (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 18, "popularity": { "githubStars": 132, "npmWeekly": 48527, "pypiWeekly": 71721, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.scrapingbee.com/documentation/", "llmsTxt": "https://www.scrapingbee.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "web.scrape", "web.extract", "web.search", "scraping.proxies", "scraping.js-render", "scraping.anti-bot", "scraping.screenshot", "scraping.serp" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "no-card", "mcp", "llms-txt", "proxies", "python", "typescript", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-11", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 59.5, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 699, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1510, "categoryRank": 20, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 68, "maintenance": 75, "payments": 40, "reliability": 75, "schema": 60, "security": 37, "transparency": 65 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-04" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Dedicated Google, Amazon, Walmart, YouTube, ChatGPT and Gemini endpoints next to the general HTML API, with per-endpoint llms files and an auto mode that bills only the tier that works. The hosted MCP's own notes say it takes the key only as ?api_key= in its URL, and no API changelog or security.txt was found.", "bestFor": "Agents that mix general scraping with ready-made Google, Amazon and YouTube endpoints and want spend capped per call.", "strengths": [ "Dedicated Google, Amazon, Walmart, YouTube, ChatGPT and Gemini endpoints next to the general HTML API", "Auto mode with a max_cost cap bills only the tier that works, and 429s and failures aren't billed", "Per-endpoint llms files plus a reference-notes file that tabulates 12 discrepancies and coverage notes in its own docs", "Five incidents in the 90 days to 4 November, each a degraded single component with no downtime shown", "The official CLI skills tell agents to treat scraped output as data and flag instruction-like content" ], "weaknesses": [ "remote-mcp.txt says the hosted MCP only takes the key as ?api_key= in its URL", "JavaScript rendering on by default makes a plain call 5 credits instead of 1", "Only a one-off 1,000-credit trial, no monthly free tier", "No API changelog, security.txt, bug bounty or certification found", "HTML Scraping with Rendering, the default path, was degraded for about 11 hours on 21 October 2026" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send render_js=false for static pages and files. It cuts the cost from 5 credits to 1", "Use mode=auto with max_cost=25 to stop it escalating to 75-credit stealth requests", "Keep the MCP URL with ?api_key= out of logs and shared configs", "Back off exponentially on 429 from the MCP, since its concurrency is shared across customers", "Expect 404 and 410 from the target to be billed. Other failures aren't" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 4, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 59.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 68, "maintenance": 75, "payments": 40, "reliability": 75, "schema": 60, "security": 37, "transparency": 51 }, "provenanceScore": 78, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-04", "maintenance": "2026-11-04", "payments": "2026-11-04", "reliability": "2026-11-04", "schema": "2026-11-04", "security": "2026-11-04", "transparency": "2026-11-04" }, "last": "2026-11-04", "lastMoved": "2026-11-04", "oldest": "2026-11-04", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl --get 'https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/' \\\n --header \"Authorization: Bearer $SCRAPINGBEE_API_KEY\" \\\n --data-urlencode 'url=https://example.com' --data-urlencode 'render_js=false'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http scrapingbee \"https://mcp.scrapingbee.com/mcp?api_key=$SCRAPINGBEE_API_KEY\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "scrapingbee": { "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.scrapingbee.com/mcp?api_key=${SCRAPINGBEE_API_KEY}" ], "command": "npx" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.scrape", "tool": "https://letme.dev/scrapingbee" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Hobby plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 19, "note": "75,000 credits, 25 concurrent, excluding VAT" }, { "item": "Freelance plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 49, "note": "250,000 credits, 50 concurrent" }, { "item": "Startup plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 99, "note": "1 million credits, 100 concurrent" }, { "item": "Default request on Hobby", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 1.27, "note": "JavaScript rendering on by default, 5 credits each" }, { "item": "Request without rendering on Hobby", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.25, "note": "render_js=false, 1 credit each" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "VostokInc SAS", "domain": "scrapingbee.com", "domainRegistered": "2019-09-18", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.scrapingbee.com/terms-and-conditions/", "privacy": "https://www.scrapingbee.com/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://status.scrapingbee.com", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "VostokInc is a Paris société par actions simplifiée, registration number 843 352 683, per the legal notices at https://www.scrapingbee.com/legal-notices/.", "Owned by the Oxylabs company group since June 2025. 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To run many queries in one pass, or to write\nresults to disk instead of into the conversation, use the ScrapingBee CLI —\n`scrapingbee \u003ccommand\u003e --input-file queries.txt --output-dir results`.", "inputSchema": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "add_html": { "default": false, "description": "Whether to return the HTML along with the search results.", "type": "boolean" }, "autoselect_variant": { "default": false, "description": "Automatically select the default/most-popular variant.", "type": "boolean" }, "category_id": { "default": "", "description": "The category ID to use for the search.", "type": "string" }, "country": { "default": "", "description": "The country code for localization (e.g., us, uk, de).\nDo not combine with a matching domain (e.g., country=fr\u0026domain=fr).", "type": "string" }, "currency": { "default": "", "description": "The currency code (ISO 4217) to display results (e.g., USD, GBP, EUR).", "type": "string" }, "domain": { "default": "com", "description": "The Amazon domain to use for the search (e.g., com, co.uk, de).", "type": "string" }, "language": { "default": "", "description": "The language code to display results (e.g., en, fr, de).", "type": "string" }, "light_request": { "default": true, "description": "Whether to use a light request or not.", "type": "boolean" }, "merchant_id": { "default": "", "description": "The merchant ID to use for the search.", "type": "string" }, "pages": { "default": 1, "description": "The number of pages to scrape.", "type": "integer" }, "query": { "description": "The search query to perform.", "type": "string" }, "screenshot": { "default": false, "description": "Force a browser screenshot (returns base64 image).", "type": "boolean" }, "sort_by": { "default": "", "description": "The sort order to use for the search\n(most_recent, price_low_to_high, price_high_to_low, featured,\naverage_review, bestsellers).", "type": "string" }, "start_page": { "default": 1, "description": "The page number to start scraping from.", "type": "integer" }, "tag": { "default": "", "description": "Response-header label only.", "type": "string" }, "zip_code": { "default": "", "description": "The ZIP code to use for delivery localization.", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "query" ], "type": "object" }, "outputSchema": { "additionalProperties": true, "type": "object" } }, { "name": "get_amazon_product_details", "description": "Scrape Amazon product details using ScrapingBee.\n\nScope: one query per call. To run many queries in one pass, or to write\nresults to disk instead of into the conversation, use the ScrapingBee CLI —\n`scrapingbee \u003ccommand\u003e --input-file queries.txt --output-dir results`.", "inputSchema": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "add_html": { "default": false, "description": "Whether to return the HTML along with the product details.", "type": "boolean" }, "autoselect_variant": { "default": false, "description": "Whether to automatically select product variant if\napplicable.", "type": "boolean" }, "country": { "default": "", "description": "The country code for localization (e.g., us, uk, de).\nDo not combine with a matching domain (e.g., country=fr\u0026domain=fr).", "type": "string" }, "currency": { "default": "", "description": "The currency code (ISO 4217) to display results (e.g., USD, GBP, EUR).", "type": "string" }, "domain": { "default": "", "description": "The Amazon domain to use for the search (e.g., com, co.uk, de).", "type": "string" }, "language": { "default": "", "description": "The language code to display results (e.g., en, fr, de).", "type": "string" }, "light_request": { "default": true, "description": "Whether to use a light request or not.", "type": "boolean" }, "query": { "description": "Search term (must be a valid 10-character ASIN code)", "type": "string" }, "screenshot": { "default": false, "description": "Force a browser screenshot (returns base64 image).", "type": "boolean" }, "tag": { "default": "", "description": "Response-header label only.", "type": "string" }, "zip_code": { "default": "", "description": "The zip code to use for delivery localization.", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "query" ], "type": "object" }, "outputSchema": { "additionalProperties": true, "type": "object" } }, { "name": "get_amazon_pricing", "description": "Retrieve current Amazon product pricing and seller offers for a given ASIN.\n\nScope: one query per call. To run many queries in one pass, or to write\nresults to disk instead of into the conversation, use the ScrapingBee CLI —\n`scrapingbee \u003ccommand\u003e --input-file queries.txt --output-dir results`.", "inputSchema": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "add_html": { "default": false, "description": "Include page HTML in the response.", "type": "boolean" }, "asin": { "description": "Required 10-character ASIN from an Amazon product URL.", "type": "string" }, "country": { "default": "", "description": "ISO country code for localization.\nDo not combine with a matching domain (e.g., country=fr\u0026domain=fr).", "type": "string" }, "currency": { "default": "", "description": "ISO 4217 display currency.", "type": "string" }, "domain": { "default": "com", "description": "Amazon domain (default com).", "type": "string" }, "language": { "default": "", "description": "ISO language code.", "type": "string" }, "light_request": { "default": true, "description": "Use a light request (default True) or browser-rendered (False).", "type": "boolean" }, "tag": { "default": "", "description": "Response-header label only.", "type": "string" }, "zip_code": { "default": "", "description": "ZIP code for delivery localization.", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "asin" ], "type": "object" }, "outputSchema": { "additionalProperties": true, "type": "object" } }, { "name": "ask_chatgpt", "description": "This tool allows you to send a prompt to OpenAI's ChatGPT via ScrapingBee\nand get back the generated response.\n\nScope: one query per call. To run many queries in one pass, or to write\nresults to disk instead of into the conversation, use the ScrapingBee CLI —\n`scrapingbee \u003ccommand\u003e --input-file queries.txt --output-dir results`.", "inputSchema": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "add_html": { "default": false, "description": "Whether to include the full HTML of the page in the results.", "type": "boolean" }, "country_code": { "default": "", "description": "ISO country code the request should originate from\n(affects web results when search is enabled).", "type": "string" }, "prompt": { "description": "The prompt to send to ChatGPT.", "type": "string" }, "search": { "default": false, "description": "Whether to enable web search capability for the prompt.", "type": "boolean" }, "tag": { "default": "", "description": "Response-header label only.", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "prompt" ], "type": "object" }, "outputSchema": { "additionalProperties": true, "type": "object" } }, { "name": "fast_search", "description": "Search the web using ScrapingBee's Fast Search API and return structured\nresults. This is the PRIMARY tool for web searches — it returns clean\norganic results and top stories in under one second at a lower credit cost.\n\nUSE THIS TOOL FIRST for any general web search. Only fall back to\nget_google_search_results if you need specialized search types such as\nnews, maps, Google Lens, shopping, image search, or Google AI mode.\n\nScope: one query per call. To run many queries in one pass, or to write\nresults to disk instead of into the conversation, use the ScrapingBee CLI —\n`scrapingbee \u003ccommand\u003e --input-file queries.txt --output-dir results`.", "inputSchema": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "country_code": { "default": "us", "description": "ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code to localize results\n(Example: us, fr, de, in, gb, br, etc.).", "type": "string" }, "language": { "default": "en", "description": "Language of the search results (Example: en, fr, de, etc.).", "type": "string" }, "page": { "default": 1, "description": "The page number to return. Default is 1,\nuse page=2 for the second page, etc.", "type": "integer" }, "search": { "description": "The search query to use.\nMake sure to URL-encode special characters such as :, \u0026 or +.", "type": "string" }, "tag": { "default": "", "description": "Response-header label only.", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "search" ], "type": "object" }, "outputSchema": { "additionalProperties": true, "type": "object" } }, { "name": "ask_gemini", "description": "Ask Gemini through ScrapingBee and receive citation objects when available.\n\nScope: one query per call. To run many queries in one pass, or to write\nresults to disk instead of into the conversation, use the ScrapingBee CLI —\n`scrapingbee \u003ccommand\u003e --input-file queries.txt --output-dir results`.", "inputSchema": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "add_html": { "default": false, "description": "Whether to return the full HTML of searched pages.", "type": "boolean" }, "country_code": { "default": "", "description": "ISO country code to set request geolocation.", "type": "string" }, "prompt": { "description": "The prompt to send to Gemini.", "type": "string" }, "tag": { "default": "", "description": "Response-header label only.", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "prompt" ], "type": "object" }, "outputSchema": { "additionalProperties": true, "type": "object" } }, { "name": "get_google_search_results", "description": "This is a FALLBACK tool —\nuse fast_search first for general web searches. Only use this tool when\nyou need specialized search types that fast_search does not support:\nnews, maps, Google Lens, shopping, image search, or Google AI mode.\n\nScrape Google search results using ScrapingBee and return the results.\nThis tool can scrape normal results, news results, maps results, search\nusing google lens, shopping related results, image results, and get the result from\nGoogle's AI mode.\nIt can even return the HTML along with the search results.\n\nScope: one query per call. To run many queries in one pass, or to write\nresults to disk instead of into the conversation, use the ScrapingBee CLI —\n`scrapingbee \u003ccommand\u003e --input-file queries.txt --output-dir results`.", "inputSchema": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "add_html": { "default": false, "description": "Whether to return the HTML along with the search results.", "type": "boolean" }, "country_code": { "default": "us", "description": "The country code to use for the search\n(Example: us, fr, de, etc.).", "type": "string" }, "date_range": { "default": "", "description": "Filter by date range: past_hour, past_day, past_week,\npast_month, past_year. Only for classic, news, and images.", "type": "string" }, "device": { "default": "desktop", "description": "The device to use for the search (desktop, mobile).", "type": "string" }, "extra_params": { "default": "", "description": "Extra parameters to pass to the search (Example: tbs=qdr:d\u0026udm=7).", "type": "string" }, "language": { "default": "en", "description": "The language to use for the search (Example: en, fr, de, etc.).", "type": "string" }, "latitude": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "number" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Latitude in decimal degrees for geographic searches." }, "light_request": { "default": true, "description": "Whether to use a light request or not.", "type": "boolean" }, "longitude": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "number" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Longitude in decimal degrees for geographic searches." }, "max_price": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "number" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Shopping maximum price filter." }, "min_price": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "number" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Shopping minimum price filter." }, "nfpr": { "default": false, "description": "Whether to disable Google's autocorrection feature or not.", "type": "boolean" }, "page": { "default": 1, "description": "The page number to return.", "type": "integer" }, "pages": { "default": 1, "description": "Number of pages to aggregate (max 10, default 1).", "type": "integer" }, "radius": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "integer" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Radius in meters (requires latitude and longitude)." }, "search": { "description": "The search query to use.", "type": "string" }, "search_type": { "default": "classic", "description": "The search type to use (classic: normal results,\nnews: news results [not available if device is mobile], maps: maps results,\nlens: search using google lens [requires image url as search parameter],\nshopping: shopping related results, images: image results,\nai_mode: get the result from Google's AI mode, ads: paid-ad results).", "type": "string" }, "sort_by": { "default": "", "description": "Shopping sort order: relevance, reviews, price_asc, price_desc.", "type": "string" }, "tag": { "default": "", "description": "Response-header label only.", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "search" ], "type": "object" }, "outputSchema": { "additionalProperties": true, "type": "object" } }, { "name": "get_page_text", "description": "Scrape a URL using ScrapingBee and return the page content in\nMarkdown or Text format.\n\nScope: one URL per call, with the result returned into the conversation.\nFor many URLs, a whole site, output written to a file or directory,\nresumable jobs, or a scheduled re-run, use the ScrapingBee CLI instead —\n`scrapingbee scrape --input-file urls.txt --output-dir results`,\n`scrapingbee crawl URL --save-pattern ...`, `scrapingbee schedule --every`.\nThis server has no batch, crawl, file-output or scheduling equivalent.", "inputSchema": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "ai_query": { "default": "", "description": "Natural-language question for AI extraction.", "type": "string" }, "ai_selector": { "default": "", "description": "CSS selector to focus AI extraction on part of the page.", "type": "string" }, "auto_mode": { "default": true, "description": "On by default — ScrapingBee automatically picks the cheapest\nconfiguration that successfully fetches the page, escalating proxy\nstrength only as needed (you are charged only for the winning\nconfig). To choose a configuration yourself instead, use one of:\nauto_mode=False for the classic tier (no proxy, cheapest),\npremium_proxy=True, or stealth_proxy=True — the two proxy flags\noverride auto_mode on their own, so auto_mode=False is only needed\nfor the classic tier. Setting render_js also switches to manual.", "type": "boolean" }, "block_resources": { "default": true, "description": "Block images/CSS to speed up rendering.", "type": "boolean" }, "cookies": { "default": "", "description": "Semicolon-separated cookies to send to the target.", "type": "string" }, "country_code": { "default": "", "description": "ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (e.g. \"fr\", \"us\") to\nroute the request through an IP in that country. Only takes effect\nwhen premium_proxy or stealth_proxy is True.", "type": "string" }, "custom_google": { "default": false, "description": "Set to True if the url is a google domain in the following\nformat: \u003csubdomain\u003e.google.\u003ctop-level-domain\u003e\n(Example: translate.google.com, mail.google.com, www.google.co.in etc)", "type": "boolean" }, "device": { "default": "desktop", "description": "desktop (default) or mobile.", "type": "string" }, "js_scenario": { "default": "", "description": "Stringified JSON object of browser interaction instructions.", "type": "string" }, "max_cost": { "default": 0, "description": "Optional credit ceiling for auto_mode (integer \u003e= 1). The request\nwill not escalate to a configuration costing more than this many credits.\n0 means no ceiling. Ignored unless auto_mode is True.", "type": "integer" }, "premium_proxy": { "default": false, "description": "Manual option: use a premium proxy (middle tier of\nclassic/premium/stealth). Setting this disables auto_mode.", "type": "boolean" }, "render_js": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Whether to use headless-browser rendering.\nOmit to use the API default (true). Setting this explicitly\nswitches the request to manual configuration (disables auto_mode)." }, "return_page_markdown": { "default": true, "description": "Whether to return the page content in Markdown format.", "type": "boolean" }, "return_page_text": { "default": false, "description": "Whether to return the page content in Text format.", "type": "boolean" }, "session_id": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "integer" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Integer 0–10000000 to reuse an IP for up to 5 minutes." }, "stealth_proxy": { "default": false, "description": "Manual option: use a stealth proxy (strongest tier of\nclassic/premium/stealth). Setting this disables auto_mode.", "type": "boolean" }, "timeout": { "default": 140000, "description": "Request timeout in milliseconds (1000–140000, default 140000).", "type": "integer" }, "url": { "description": "The URL of the page to scrape.", "type": "string" }, "wait": { "default": 0, "description": "Milliseconds to wait after page load (0–35000).", "type": "integer" }, "wait_browser": { "default": "domcontentloaded", "description": "domcontentloaded (default), load, networkidle0, networkidle2.", "type": "string" }, "wait_for": { "default": "", "description": "CSS or XPath selector to wait for before returning.", "type": "string" }, "window_height": { "default": 1080, "description": "Viewport height (default 1080).", "type": "integer" }, "window_width": { "default": 1920, "description": "Viewport width (default 1920).", "type": "integer" } }, "required": [ "url" ], "type": "object" }, "outputSchema": { "properties": { "result": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "additionalProperties": true, "type": "object" } ] } }, "required": [ "result" ], "type": "object", "x-fastmcp-wrap-result": true } }, { "name": "get_page_html", "description": "Scrape a URL using ScrapingBee and return the page content in HTML.\n\nScope: one URL per call, with the result returned into the conversation.\nFor many URLs, a whole site, output written to a file or directory,\nresumable jobs, or a scheduled re-run, use the ScrapingBee CLI instead —\n`scrapingbee scrape --input-file urls.txt --output-dir results`,\n`scrapingbee crawl URL --save-pattern ...`, `scrapingbee schedule --every`.\nThis server has no batch, crawl, file-output or scheduling equivalent.", "inputSchema": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "ai_query": { "default": "", "description": "Natural-language question for AI extraction.", "type": "string" }, "ai_selector": { "default": "", "description": "CSS selector to focus AI extraction on part of the page.", "type": "string" }, "auto_mode": { "default": true, "description": "On by default — ScrapingBee automatically picks the cheapest\nconfiguration that successfully fetches the page, escalating proxy\nstrength only as needed (you are charged only for the winning\nconfig). To choose a configuration yourself instead, use one of:\nauto_mode=False for the classic tier (no proxy, cheapest),\npremium_proxy=True, or stealth_proxy=True — the two proxy flags\noverride auto_mode on their own, so auto_mode=False is only needed\nfor the classic tier. Setting render_js also switches to manual.", "type": "boolean" }, "block_resources": { "default": true, "description": "Block images/CSS to speed up rendering.", "type": "boolean" }, "cookies": { "default": "", "description": "Semicolon-separated cookies to send to the target.", "type": "string" }, "country_code": { "default": "", "description": "ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (e.g. \"fr\", \"us\") to\nroute the request through an IP in that country. Only takes effect\nwhen premium_proxy or stealth_proxy is True.", "type": "string" }, "custom_google": { "default": false, "description": "Set to True if the url is a google domain in the following\nformat: \u003csubdomain\u003e.google.\u003ctop-level-domain\u003e\n(Example: translate.google.com, mail.google.com, www.google.co.in etc)", "type": "boolean" }, "device": { "default": "desktop", "description": "desktop (default) or mobile.", "type": "string" }, "js_scenario": { "default": "", "description": "Stringified JSON object of browser interaction instructions.", "type": "string" }, "max_cost": { "default": 0, "description": "Optional credit ceiling for auto_mode (integer \u003e= 1). The request\nwill not escalate to a configuration costing more than this many credits.\n0 means no ceiling. Ignored unless auto_mode is True.", "type": "integer" }, "premium_proxy": { "default": false, "description": "Manual option: use a premium proxy (middle tier of\nclassic/premium/stealth). Setting this disables auto_mode.", "type": "boolean" }, "render_js": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Whether to use headless-browser rendering.\nOmit to use the API default (true). Setting this explicitly\nswitches the request to manual configuration (disables auto_mode)." }, "session_id": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "integer" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Integer 0–10000000 to reuse an IP for up to 5 minutes." }, "stealth_proxy": { "default": false, "description": "Manual option: use a stealth proxy (strongest tier of\nclassic/premium/stealth). Setting this disables auto_mode.", "type": "boolean" }, "timeout": { "default": 140000, "description": "Request timeout in milliseconds (1000–140000, default 140000).", "type": "integer" }, "url": { "description": "The URL of the page to scrape.", "type": "string" }, "wait": { "default": 0, "description": "Milliseconds to wait after page load (0–35000).", "type": "integer" }, "wait_browser": { "default": "domcontentloaded", "description": "domcontentloaded (default), load, networkidle0, networkidle2.", "type": "string" }, "wait_for": { "default": "", "description": "CSS or XPath selector to wait for before returning.", "type": "string" }, "window_height": { "default": 1080, "description": "Viewport height (default 1080).", "type": "integer" }, "window_width": { "default": 1920, "description": "Viewport width (default 1920).", "type": "integer" } }, "required": [ "url" ], "type": "object" }, "outputSchema": { "properties": { "result": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "additionalProperties": true, "type": "object" } ] } }, "required": [ "result" ], "type": "object", "x-fastmcp-wrap-result": true } }, { "name": "extract_page_data", "description": "Scrape a URL using ScrapingBee and extract specific data using\nCSS or XPath selectors.\n\nScope: one URL per call, with the result returned into the conversation.\nFor many URLs, a whole site, output written to a file or directory,\nresumable jobs, or a scheduled re-run, use the ScrapingBee CLI instead —\n`scrapingbee scrape --input-file urls.txt --output-dir results`,\n`scrapingbee crawl URL --save-pattern ...`, `scrapingbee schedule --every`.\nThis server has no batch, crawl, file-output or scheduling equivalent.", "inputSchema": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "ai_extract_rules": { "default": "", "description": "JSON string of AI extraction rules.", "type": "string" }, "ai_selector": { "default": "", "description": "CSS selector to focus AI extraction on part of the page.", "type": "string" }, "auto_mode": { "default": true, "description": "On by default — ScrapingBee automatically picks the cheapest\nconfiguration that successfully fetches the page, escalating proxy\nstrength only as needed (you are charged only for the winning\nconfig). To choose a configuration yourself instead, use one of:\nauto_mode=False for the classic tier (no proxy, cheapest),\npremium_proxy=True, or stealth_proxy=True — the two proxy flags\noverride auto_mode on their own, so auto_mode=False is only needed\nfor the classic tier. Setting render_js also switches to manual.", "type": "boolean" }, "block_resources": { "default": true, "description": "Block images/CSS to speed up rendering.", "type": "boolean" }, "cookies": { "default": "", "description": "Semicolon-separated cookies to send to the target.", "type": "string" }, "country_code": { "default": "", "description": "ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (e.g. \"fr\", \"us\") to\nroute the request through an IP in that country. Only takes effect\nwhen premium_proxy or stealth_proxy is True.", "type": "string" }, "custom_google": { "default": false, "description": "Set to True if the url is a google domain in the following\nformat: \u003csubdomain\u003e.google.\u003ctop-level-domain\u003e\n(Example: translate.google.com, mail.google.com, www.google.co.in etc)", "type": "boolean" }, "device": { "default": "desktop", "description": "desktop (default) or mobile.", "type": "string" }, "extract_rules": { "description": "A JSON string defining extraction rules.\n\n SIMPLE SYNTAX:\n Use {\"key_name\": \"css_or_xpath_selector\"} format.\n - CSS selector example: {\"title\": \"h1\", \"price\": \"span.price\"}\n - XPath selector example:\n {\"title\": \"//h1\", \"items\": \"//div[@class='item']\"}\n - Extract attribute value of an element using @\u003cattribute\u003e\n or if you are using extended syntax \u003celement\u003e@\u003cattribute\u003e,\n for example: {\"image\": \"img@src\"},\n \"link\": {\"selector\": \"a\",\"output\": \"@href\"}\n\n Note: Selectors starting with \"/\" are treated as XPath,\n otherwise CSS.\n\n EXTENDED SYNTAX:\n For more control, use a dict with these options:\n - \"selector\": CSS or XPath selector string (required)\n - \"type\": \"item\" (single element, default) or\n \"list\" (multiple elements)\n - \"output\": It is also possible to add extraction rules inside\n the output option in order to create powerful extractors.\n\n Extended example:\n {\n \"title\" : \"h1\",\n \"subtitle\" : \"#subtitle\",\n \"articles\": {\n \"selector\": \".card\",\n \"type\": \"list\",\n \"output\": {\n \"title\": \".post-title\",\n \"link\": {\n \"selector\": \".post-title\",\n \"output\": \"@href\"\n },\n \"description\": \".post-description\"\n }\n }\n }", "type": "string" }, "js_scenario": { "default": "", "description": "Stringified JSON object of browser interaction instructions.", "type": "string" }, "json_response": { "default": false, "description": "Return the full JSON envelope instead of the raw body.", "type": "boolean" }, "max_cost": { "default": 0, "description": "Optional credit ceiling for auto_mode (integer \u003e= 1). The request\nwill not escalate to a configuration costing more than this many credits.\n0 means no ceiling. Ignored unless auto_mode is True.", "type": "integer" }, "premium_proxy": { "default": false, "description": "Manual option: use a premium proxy (middle tier of\nclassic/premium/stealth). Setting this disables auto_mode.", "type": "boolean" }, "render_js": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Whether to use headless-browser rendering. Setting this\nexplicitly switches the request to manual configuration\n(disables auto_mode)." }, "session_id": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "integer" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Integer 0–10000000 to reuse an IP for up to 5 minutes." }, "stealth_proxy": { "default": false, "description": "Manual option: use a stealth proxy (strongest tier of\nclassic/premium/stealth). Setting this disables auto_mode.", "type": "boolean" }, "timeout": { "default": 140000, "description": "Request timeout in milliseconds (1000–140000, default 140000).", "type": "integer" }, "url": { "description": "The URL of the page to scrape.", "type": "string" }, "wait": { "default": 0, "description": "Milliseconds to wait after page load (0–35000).", "type": "integer" }, "wait_browser": { "default": "domcontentloaded", "description": "domcontentloaded (default), load, networkidle0, networkidle2.", "type": "string" }, "wait_for": { "default": "", "description": "CSS or XPath selector to wait for before returning.", "type": "string" }, "window_height": { "default": 1080, "description": "Viewport height (default 1080).", "type": "integer" }, "window_width": { "default": 1920, "description": "Viewport width (default 1920).", "type": "integer" } }, "required": [ "url", "extract_rules" ], "type": "object" }, "outputSchema": { "additionalProperties": true, "type": "object" } }, { "name": "get_screenshot", "description": "Scrape a URL using ScrapingBee and return it's screenshot.\n\nScope: one URL per call, with the result returned into the conversation.\nFor many URLs, a whole site, output written to a file or directory,\nresumable jobs, or a scheduled re-run, use the ScrapingBee CLI instead —\n`scrapingbee scrape --input-file urls.txt --output-dir results`,\n`scrapingbee crawl URL --save-pattern ...`, `scrapingbee schedule --every`.\nThis server has no batch, crawl, file-output or scheduling equivalent.", "inputSchema": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "block_resources": { "default": false, "description": "Block images/CSS to speed up rendering.", "type": "boolean" }, "cookies": { "default": "", "description": "Semicolon-separated cookies to send to the target.", "type": "string" }, "country_code": { "default": "", "description": "ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (e.g. \"fr\", \"us\") to\nroute the request through an IP in that country. Only takes effect\nwhen premium_proxy or stealth_proxy is True.", "type": "string" }, "custom_google": { "default": false, "description": "Set to True if the url is a google domain in the following\nformat: \u003csubdomain\u003e.google.\u003ctop-level-domain\u003e\n(Example: translate.google.com, mail.google.com, www.google.co.in etc)", "type": "boolean" }, "device": { "default": "desktop", "description": "desktop (default) or mobile.", "type": "string" }, "js_scenario": { "default": "", "description": "Stringified JSON object of browser interaction instructions.", "type": "string" }, "json_response": { "default": false, "description": "Deprecated, removed in Version 3. Return the full JSON\nenvelope (page content plus the base64 image under its\n\"screenshot\" key) instead of the raw image.", "type": "boolean" }, "premium_proxy": { "default": false, "description": "Whether to use a premium proxy for the request.\nUse it only if you are getting blocked by the website,\nthat is when you get a 500 status code.", "type": "boolean" }, "render_js": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "boolean" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Whether to use headless-browser rendering." }, "screenshot_full_page": { "default": false, "description": "Whether to take a screenshot of the full page\nor just the viewport.", "type": "boolean" }, "screenshot_selector": { "default": "", "description": "A CSS selector to take a screenshot of a specific element.", "type": "string" }, "session_id": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "integer" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Integer 0–10000000 to reuse an IP for up to 5 minutes." }, "stealth_proxy": { "default": false, "description": "Whether to use a stealth proxy for the request.\nUse it only if you are getting blocked by the website\nwhile using premium_proxy, that is when you get a 500 status code.", "type": "boolean" }, "timeout": { "default": 140000, "description": "Request timeout in milliseconds (1000–140000, default 140000).", "type": "integer" }, "url": { "description": "The URL of the page to scrape.", "type": "string" }, "wait": { "default": 0, "description": "Milliseconds to wait after page load (0–35000).", "type": "integer" }, "wait_browser": { "default": "domcontentloaded", "description": "domcontentloaded (default), load, networkidle0, networkidle2.", "type": "string" }, "wait_for": { "default": "", "description": "CSS or XPath selector to wait for before returning.", "type": "string" }, "window_height": { "default": 1080, "description": "Viewport height (default 1080).", "type": "integer" }, "window_width": { "default": 1920, "description": "Viewport width (default 1920).", "type": "integer" } }, "required": [ "url" ], "type": "object" } }, { "name": "get_file", "description": "Fetches a file from a URL and returns it in a format suitable for FastMcP.\n\nThis tool can be used to fetch any file type, including images, PDFs, etc.\nThe framework will handle the encoding and packaging of the file.\n\nScope: one URL per call, with the result returned into the conversation.\nFor many URLs, a whole site, output written to a file or directory,\nresumable jobs, or a scheduled re-run, use the ScrapingBee CLI instead —\n`scrapingbee scrape --input-file urls.txt --output-dir results`,\n`scrapingbee crawl URL --save-pattern ...`, `scrapingbee schedule --every`.\nThis server has no batch, crawl, file-output or scheduling equivalent.", "inputSchema": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "cookies": { "default": "", "description": "Semicolon-separated cookies to send to the target.", "type": "string" }, "country_code": { "default": "", "description": "ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (e.g. \"fr\", \"us\") to\nroute the request through an IP in that country. Only takes effect\nwhen premium_proxy is True.", "type": "string" }, "custom_google": { "default": false, "description": "Set to True if the url is a google domain in the following\nformat: \u003csubdomain\u003e.google.\u003ctop-level-domain\u003e\n(Example: translate.google.com, mail.google.com, www.google.co.in etc)", "type": "boolean" }, "device": { "default": "desktop", "description": "desktop (default) or mobile.", "type": "string" }, "premium_proxy": { "default": false, "description": "Whether to use a premium proxy for the request.\nUse it only if you are getting blocked by the website.", "type": "boolean" }, "render_js": { "default": false, "description": "Whether to use headless-browser rendering (default False).", "type": "boolean" }, "session_id": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "integer" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "Integer 0–10000000 to reuse an IP for up to 5 minutes." }, "timeout": { "default": 140000, "description": "Request timeout in milliseconds (1000–140000, default 140000).", "type": "integer" }, "url": { "description": "The URL of the file to fetch.", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "url" ], "type": "object" } }, { "name": "get_scrapingbee_usage", "description": "Read real-time credit and concurrency usage for the authenticated\nScrapingBee account.\n\nNote: This endpoint is rate-limited to 6 calls per minute and does not\ncount against the account's concurrency limit.\n\nReturns:\n max_api_credit, used_api_credit, max_concurrency, current_concurrency,\n renewal_subscription_date.", "inputSchema": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": {}, "type": "object" }, "outputSchema": { "additionalProperties": true, "type": "object" } }, { "name": "get_walmart_search_results", "description": "Scrape Walmart search results using ScrapingBee.\n\nScope: one query per call. To run many queries in one pass, or to write\nresults to disk instead of into the conversation, use the ScrapingBee CLI —\n`scrapingbee \u003ccommand\u003e --input-file queries.txt --output-dir results`.", "inputSchema": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "add_html": { "default": false, "description": "Whether to return the HTML along with the search results.", "type": "boolean" }, "delivery_zip": { "default": "", "description": "The zip code to use for delivery localization.", "type": "string" }, "device": { "default": "desktop", "description": "The device to use for the search (desktop, mobile, tablet).", "type": "string" }, "domain": { "default": "", "description": "The domain to use for the search\n(Example: com, ca, com.mx, etc.) for localization.", "type": "string" }, "fulfillment_speed": { "default": "", "description": "The fulfillment speed to use for the search\n(today, tomorrow, 2_days, anytime).", "type": "string" }, "fulfillment_type": { "default": "", "description": "The fulfillment type to use for the search (in_store).", "type": "string" }, "light_request": { "default": true, "description": "Whether to use a light request or not.", "type": "boolean" }, "max_price": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "integer" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "The maximum price to use for the search." }, "min_price": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "integer" }, { "type": "null" } ], "default": null, "description": "The minimum price to use for the search." }, "query": { "description": "The search query to perform.", "type": "string" }, "screenshot": { "default": false, "description": "Force a browser screenshot (returns base64 image).", "type": "boolean" }, "sort_by": { "default": "best_match", "description": "The sort order to use for the search\n(best_match, price_low, price_high, best_seller).", "type": "string" }, "start_page": { "default": 1, "description": "The page number to return (default 1).", "type": "integer" }, "store_id": { "default": "", "description": "Specific Walmart store ID for localization.", "type": "string" }, "tag": { "default": "", "description": "Response-header label only.", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "query" ], "type": "object" }, "outputSchema": { "additionalProperties": true, "type": "object" } }, { "name": "get_walmart_product_details", "description": "Scrape Walmart product details using ScrapingBee.\n\nScope: one query per call. To run many queries in one pass, or to write\nresults to disk instead of into the conversation, use the ScrapingBee CLI —\n`scrapingbee \u003ccommand\u003e --input-file queries.txt --output-dir results`.", "inputSchema": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "add_html": { "default": false, "description": "Whether to return the HTML along with the product details.", "type": "boolean" }, "delivery_zip": { "default": "", "description": "The zip code to use for delivery localization.", "type": "string" }, "device": { "default": "desktop", "description": "The device to use for the request (desktop, mobile, tablet).", "type": "string" }, "domain": { "default": "", "description": "The domain to use for the search\n(Example: com, ca, com.mx, etc.) for localization.", "type": "string" }, "light_request": { "default": true, "description": "Whether to use a light request or not.", "type": "boolean" }, "product_id": { "description": "The unique identifier for the Walmart product.", "type": "string" }, "screenshot": { "default": false, "description": "Force a browser screenshot (returns base64 image).", "type": "boolean" }, "store_id": { "default": "", "description": "Specific Walmart store ID for localization.", "type": "string" }, "tag": { "default": "", "description": "Response-header label only.", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "product_id" ], "type": "object" }, "outputSchema": { "additionalProperties": true, "type": "object" } }, { "name": "get_youtube_search_results", "description": "Search YouTube and return structured results.\n\nScope: one query per call. To run many queries in one pass, or to write\nresults to disk instead of into the conversation, use the ScrapingBee CLI —\n`scrapingbee \u003ccommand\u003e --input-file queries.txt --output-dir results`.", "inputSchema": { "additionalProperties": false, "properties": { "creative_commons": { "default": false, "description": "Return only videos with Creative Commons license.", "type": "boolean" }, "duration": { "default": "", "description": "Filter by duration: '\u003c4' (short), '4-20' (medium), '\u003e20' (long).", "type": "string" }, "hd": { "default": false, "description": "Return only HD videos.", "type": "boolean" }, "hdr": { "default": false, "description": "Return only HDR videos.", "type": "boolean" }, "is_360": { "default": false, "description": "Return only 360-degree videos.", "type": "boolean" }, "is_3d": { "default": false, "description": "Return only 3D videos.", "type": "boolean" }, "is_4k": { "default": false, "description": "Return only 4K videos.", "type": "boolean" }, "live": { "default": false, "description": "Return only live streams.", "type": "boolean" }, "location": { "default": false, "description": "Return only videos with location metadata.", "type": "boolean" }, "purchased": { "default": false, "description": "Return only purchased movies.", "type": "boolean" }, "result_type": { "default": "", "description": "Filter by type: 'video', 'channel', 'playlist', 'movie'.", "type": "string" }, "search": { "description": "The search query.", "type": "string" }, "sort_by": { "default": "relevance", "description": "Sort order:\n'relevance' (default), 'rating', 'view_count', 'upload_date'.", "type": "string" }, "subtitles": { "default": false, "description": "Return only videos with subtitles/captions.", "type": "boolean" }, "tag": { "default": "", "description": "Response-header label only.", "type": "string" }, "upload_date": { "default": "", "description": "Filter by date:\n'today', 'last_hour', 'this_week', 'this_month', 'this_year'.", "type": "string" }, "vr180": { "default": false, "description": "Return only VR180 videos.", "type": "boolean" } }, "required": [ "search" ], "type": "object" }, "outputSchema": { "additionalProperties": true, "type": "object" } }, { "name": "get_youtube_video_metadata", "description": "Fetch structured metadata for a YouTube video including title, description,\nviews, likes, channel info, and technical details.\n\nScope: one query per call. 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No key scopes or rotation found in the docs. The hosted MCP server uses OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, dynamic client registration and a revocation endpoint at webscraping.ai; its metadata lists no scopes. The npm MCP package takes WEBSCRAPING_AI_API_KEY.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan of 2,000 credits a month with 2 concurrent requests and no card. Plans $29 (250,000 credits), $99 (1,000,000) and $249 (3,000,000) a month, or pay-as-you-go at $0.0002 a credit from $20, valid 12 months. A request costs 1 to 50 credits by proxy and JavaScript, AI endpoints 5 more, /serp 15 a page. 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$0.116 on the $29 plan (250,000 credits)" }, { "item": "Request with JavaScript (default)", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 1, "note": "5 credits at the pay-as-you-go rate" }, { "item": "Residential proxy with JavaScript", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 5, "note": "25 credits at the pay-as-you-go rate" }, { "item": "Google results page (/serp)", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 3, "note": "15 credits per results page at the pay-as-you-go rate" }, { "item": "Smallest plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 29, "note": "250,000 credits, 10 concurrent requests; $99 for 1,000,000 and $249 for 3,000,000" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Urlooker LLC", "domain": "webscraping.ai", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://webscraping.ai/terms", "privacy": "https://webscraping.ai/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/webscraping-ai/webscraping-ai-mcp-server/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-06", "notes": [ "Urlooker LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company with a mailing address at 10350 N Vancouver Way #8001, Portland, Oregon, is named in the terms and privacy policy (both last updated 24 May 2026) and on the about page.", "The terms' acceptable-use section forbids burdening the infrastructure 'with automated requests outside supported interfaces'; no clause forbids reading the public site. webscraping.ai/robots.txt allows the docs and disallows /api/, and api.webscraping.ai/robots.txt disallows everything, so the API host was not fetched.", "robots.txt carries Content-Signal search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes. llms.txt and the docs address coding agents directly; nothing in them was acted on.", "/.well-known/security.txt answers 404. No status page was found, and status.webscraping.ai did not answer. No API changelog page; the MCP server and SDK repositories keep dated changelogs and tags.", "Registration date of webscraping.ai not checked (.ai RDAP not queried)." ], "score": 61 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/webscraping-ai.json", "live": { "slug": "webscraping-ai", "probe": { "target": "https://mcp.webscraping.ai/mcp", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T19:22:44.503147872Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 405, "lastMs": 417, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 393, "p95ms24h": 489, "samples24h": 210, "samples30d": 210, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 13, "ok": 13 }, { "date": "2026-11-07", "probes": 197, "ok": 197 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "webscraping-ai/webscraping-ai-mcp-server", "version": "v1.4.0", "released": "2026-10-26", "seenAt": "2026-11-07T00:17:11.13246456Z" }, { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "io.github.webscraping-ai/webscraping-ai", "version": "1.0.7", "seenAt": "2026-11-07T18:16:28.95801333Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "webscraping-ai", "version": "4.3.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-07T00:17:07.495506297Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "webscraping-ai-cli", "version": "1.3.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-07T00:17:08.904936054Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "webscraping-ai-mcp", "version": "1.4.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-07T00:17:06.693556189Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "webscraping_ai", "version": "4.3.0", "released": "2026-10-24", "seenAt": "2026-11-07T00:17:10.888249597Z" } ], "githubStars": 45, "npmWeekly": 151, "pypiWeekly": 70, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://webscraping.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:59:45.461946076Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://webscraping.ai/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:34:22.790663613Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/webscraping-ai/webscraping-ai-mcp-server/master/CHANGELOG.md", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:24:05.016179623Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "524125551eb0" }, { "url": "https://webscraping.ai/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:23:49.021712636Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "7b379e2008aa" }, { "url": "https://webscraping.ai/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:23:51.486344366Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "b6444b665d9b" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://mcp.webscraping.ai/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T01:49:13.151188151Z", "status": "auth", "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools", "changedAt": "2026-11-07T01:49:13.151188151Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T19:22:44.503147872Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 32, "category": "reliability", "leads": "scrapingbee", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "status.scrapingbee.com, now on incident.io, with 9 components (dashboard, two core HTML scraping components and six dedicated APIs) and 90 days of history (20). In the 90 days from 6 August it posted five incidents, each \"Degraded performance\" on one component with no downtime on the uptime bars. Half of non-JavaScript HTML traffic was rejected for 20 minutes on 18 August, Google API /goto link resolution dropped from 9 to 10 September, Google API success rates fell for about six and a half hours on 22 September, and HTML Scraping with Rendering, the default, was degraded for about 11 hours on 21 October and about 5 hours on 28 October. Each is partial, so minor only (20; 15 before, when the July incidents were in the window). Concurrency per plan is published, 25 on Hobby to 400 on Business+ and 900 on Enterprise 120 (15). 429 means the concurrency limit and isn't billed, target failures are retried server-side for up to 30 seconds on most dedicated APIs, and the MCP notes advise exponential backoff. No Retry-After or safe-write guidance found (10). No SLA found (0). Generally available (10). 20 + 20 + 15 + 10 + 0 + 10 = 75.", "b": "Graded on the hosted lines. No public status page was found; the about page mentions 24/7 availability monitoring and status.webscraping.ai did not answer (0). No readable incident history (5). Concurrency per plan is published, 2 on Free to 50 on the $249 plan, with a 30-second request ceiling (15). 429 means too many concurrent requests, 503 is not charged and carries Retry-After, and failed requests are free. No backoff guidance for 429 itself (13 of 15). No SLA; section 14.2 of the terms makes no uptime commitment (0). Generally available since 2019 (10). 0 + 5 + 15 + 13 + 0 + 10 = 43." }, "scores": { "a": 75, "b": 43 } }, { "by": 29, "category": "schema", "leads": "webscraping-ai", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "No OpenAPI spec found. Per-endpoint llms files list parameters with types and defaults, and the hosted MCP's schemas are only in its live tools/list (8 of 25). llms.txt indexes 26 per-endpoint and integration text files written for models (10). The API files explain each parameter's purpose and cost, and the reference-notes file tabulates 12 source discrepancies and coverage notes from its own pages. MCP tool descriptions aren't published beyond a tool table (10 of 20). Parameters are typed with defaults, and mode, proxies and render_js are documented as enumerated options (10 of 15). Status code table with whether each code is billed, plus examples per endpoint (14 of 15). The SDKs and CLI keep dated CHANGELOGs. The API has no changelog (8 of 15). 8 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 14 + 8 = 60.", "b": "OpenAPI file (version 3.2.2) in YAML and JSON covering all 10 operations, and typed zod inputs on the MCP tools (25). llms.txt, llms-full.txt and a Markdown copy of every page (10). Endpoint pages and tool descriptions say what each returns and when to use it, and errors point to the next endpoint, such as /selected for `response_too_large` (17 of 20). Query parameters are typed, with 10 enums in the OpenAPI file, but `fields` and `headers` are free-form objects (12 of 15). Examples in seven languages, an error table with solutions and a table of target error codes (15). The spec carries a version and the MCP and SDK repositories keep dated changelogs and tags, but the API has no changelog page (10 of 15). 25 + 10 + 17 + 12 + 15 + 10 = 89." }, "scores": { "a": 60, "b": 89 } }, { "by": 27, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "webscraping-ai", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "18 MCP tools (15 of 25). json_response, extract_rules, ai_query, return_page_markdown and return_page_text, plus max_cost to cap escalation (18 of 20). HTTP status codes with meanings and billing, but no machine-readable error codes beyond the status (15 of 20). Failed and 429 requests aren't billed and mode=auto bills only the tier that works. No tool annotations found (8 of 20). Only url is required, but render_js defaults on at 5 credits. Official Python and Node SDKs plus a CLI (12 of 15).", "b": "Ten MCP tools (25). Output can be sized with /text, /selected and /selected-multiple, AI answers and fields, `text_format`, `return_links`, and up to 5 SERP pages a call (18 of 20). Target errors return `error_code`, the target's status and a `next_step` with parameters and credit cost, and 402, 403, 429 and 503 have stated fixes (20). Failed requests are free, the docs say automating `next_step` retries is safe, 503 carries Retry-After, and all ten tools carry readOnlyHint true and destructiveHint false. No idempotency key, though every call is a read (18 of 20). Only `url` is required, but JavaScript is on by default at 5 credits. Official SDKs in seven languages and a CLI (14 of 15). 25 + 18 + 20 + 18 + 14 = 95." }, "scores": { "a": 68, "b": 95 } }, { "by": 14, "category": "transparency", "leads": "scrapingbee", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "Closed service with terms naming VostokInc SAS, Paris, registration 843 352 683 (15 of 30). The privacy policy, effective 15 July 2024, keeps prospect and customer data up to 3 years and links a DPA. It doesn't mention the Oxylabs group or say whether scraped content is stored (18 of 30). The Node SDK changelog dates removals, for example youtubeTranscript() dropped in v2.0.0 on 2026-09-01, and the api_key query parameter is marked deprecated. No standing deprecation policy (10 of 20). Processors described by category, located in the US or EU. No named list (8 of 20).", "b": "Closed service under terms naming Urlooker LLC of Wyoming, with MIT clients (15 of 30). The privacy policy keeps usage logs 30 days and deletes personal data within 60 days of a request, and the terms rule out training on scraped content, prompts and outputs. But section 9.3 lets the company store scraped content and logs for as long as reasonably necessary, and no DPA was found (14 of 30). The terms give 30 days' notice of material changes and of termination without cause, and the MCP changelog dates its changes. No deprecation policy (8 of 20). Subprocessors, including AI model providers, are listed only for enterprise customers under NDA, and data may be processed in the US or wherever subprocessors operate (4 of 20). 15 + 14 + 8 + 4 = 41." }, "scores": { "a": 65, "b": 51 } }, { "by": 7, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "webscraping-ai", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "CLI v1.6.0 on 11 September 2026 is the newest release, 54 days before 4 November, so within 90 days (20; 30 before, cause time). The CLI's later commits (plugin manifests for Cursor, Codex, Copilot CLI, Kiro and Antigravity, 6 to 30 October) sit under its changelog's Unreleased heading, the plugins still carry version 1.6.0, and the mcp-server repository holds only a README. In the 90 days from 6 August, Python SDK v2.1.1 (6 August, a documentation release) and v2.2.0 and Node SDK v2.0.0 (1 September) at half as SDK tags, CLI v1.6.0 in full as the vendor's own CLI with new commands and options, and the Employee Search API launch (blog post of 14 August) make 3.5 (20). We couldn't read GitHub issues. Dated SDK changelogs and email support (10 of 25). Current official Python and Node SDKs and a CLI. The MCP isn't in the official registry (15). Test workflows run in CI on all three repositories (10). 20 + 20 + 10 + 15 + 10 = 75.", "b": "Read for a closed service with open clients. MCP server 1.4.0 on 26 October 2026 and Python SDK 4.3.0 on 24 October (30). In the 90 days from 8 August, MCP 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.3.2 and 1.4.0 and Python 4.1.0, 4.2.0 and 4.3.0 (20). Dated changelogs in the repositories and email support. GitHub issues weren't read (10 of 25). In the official MCP registry as io.github.webscraping-ai/webscraping-ai, though the newest entry there is 1.0.7 of 24 July 2026, with current SDKs in seven languages (12 of 15). CI workflows on the MCP and Python repositories, and 1.3.1 moved to zod 4 for a published advisory (10). 30 + 20 + 10 + 12 + 10 = 82." }, "scores": { "a": 75, "b": 82 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "ScrapingBee (Oxylabs group)", "b": "Urlooker LLC", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/", "b": "https://mcp.webscraping.ai/mcp", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "Streamable HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "18", "b": "10", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "not listed", "b": "io.github.webscraping-ai/webscraping-ai", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-09-11", "b": "2026-10-26", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2024-07-15", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2024-07-15", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "132 stars, 49k npm/wk, 72k PyPI/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "4/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "WebScraping.AI scores 61.4 (C) on agent readiness against ScrapingBee's 59.5 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. ScrapingBee leads on reliability and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, ScrapingBee or WebScraping.AI?" }, { "answer": "ScrapingBee needs an API key. WebScraping.AI takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do ScrapingBee and WebScraping.AI need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. ScrapingBee has a hosted endpoint at https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/ and WebScraping.AI at https://mcp.webscraping.ai/mcp.", "question": "Can an agent call ScrapingBee and WebScraping.AI without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 75 against 43", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 65 against 51" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Agents that mix general scraping with ready-made Google, Amazon and YouTube endpoints and want spend capped per call.", "slug": "scrapingbee", "watchFor": "remote-mcp.txt says the hosted MCP only takes the key as ?api_key= in its URL" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 89 against 60", "Agent ergonomics, 95 against 68", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 82 against 75" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine" ], "goodFor": "Agents that need page text, CSS fragments, AI fields or Google results through one key with a self-correcting error model.", "slug": "webscraping-ai", "watchFor": "The REST API takes the key only as the `api_key` query parameter, the one security scheme in its OpenAPI file" } ], "history": { "scrapingbee": [ { "causes": [ "time" ], "date": "2026-11-04", "delta": 0.1, "from": 59.4, "fromGrade": "C", "to": 59.5, "toGrade": "C" }, { "causes": [ "evidence" ], "date": "2026-10-27", "delta": 0.2, "from": 59.2, "fromGrade": "C", "to": 59.4, "toGrade": "C" }, { "causes": [ "method" ], "date": "2026-10-08", "delta": -0.1, "from": 59.3, "fromGrade": "C", "to": 59.2, "toGrade": "C" } ], "webscraping-ai": null }, "job": { "capability": "web.scrape", "name": "Scraping" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-scrapingbee.json", "title": "Apify MCP Server vs ScrapingBee", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-scrapingbee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-webscraping-ai.json", "title": "Apify MCP Server vs WebScraping.AI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-webscraping-ai" }, { 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"ScrapingBee vs Scrapingdog", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-scrapingdog" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-spider-cloud.json", "title": "ScrapingBee vs Spider", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-spider-cloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "ScrapingBee vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-zyte.json", "title": "ScrapingBee vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingdog-vs-webscraping-ai.json", "title": "Scrapingdog vs WebScraping.AI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingdog-vs-webscraping-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/spider-cloud-vs-webscraping-ai.json", "title": "Spider vs WebScraping.AI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/spider-cloud-vs-webscraping-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/webscraping-ai-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "WebScraping.AI vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/webscraping-ai-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/webscraping-ai-vs-zyte.json", "title": "WebScraping.AI vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/webscraping-ai-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-scrapingbee.json", "title": "Firecrawl MCP vs ScrapingBee", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-scrapingbee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-webscraping-ai.json", "title": "Firecrawl MCP vs WebScraping.AI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-webscraping-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapingbee.json", "title": "Diffbot vs ScrapingBee", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapingbee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-webscraping-ai.json", "title": "Diffbot vs WebScraping.AI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-webscraping-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qovia-vs-scrapingbee.json", "title": "Qovia vs ScrapingBee", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qovia-vs-scrapingbee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qovia-vs-webscraping-ai.json", "title": "Qovia vs WebScraping.AI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qovia-vs-webscraping-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeatlas-vs-scrapingbee.json", "title": "ScrapeAtlas vs ScrapingBee", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeatlas-vs-scrapingbee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeatlas-vs-webscraping-ai.json", "title": "ScrapeAtlas vs WebScraping.AI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeatlas-vs-webscraping-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-soldfetch.json", "title": "ScrapingBee vs SoldFetch", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-soldfetch" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/soldfetch-vs-webscraping-ai.json", "title": "SoldFetch vs WebScraping.AI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/soldfetch-vs-webscraping-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeops-vs-scrapingbee.json", "title": "ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator vs ScrapingBee", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeops-vs-scrapingbee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeops-vs-webscraping-ai.json", "title": "ScrapeOps Proxy API Aggregator vs WebScraping.AI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeops-vs-webscraping-ai" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 32, "edge": "scrapingbee", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "scrapingbee": 75, "webscraping-ai": 43, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 29, "edge": "webscraping-ai", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "scrapingbee": 60, "webscraping-ai": 89, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 27, "edge": "webscraping-ai", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "scrapingbee": 68, "webscraping-ai": 95, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 1, "edge": "scrapingbee", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "scrapingbee": 37, "webscraping-ai": 36, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "scrapingbee": 40, "webscraping-ai": 40, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 7, "edge": "webscraping-ai", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "scrapingbee": 75, "webscraping-ai": 82, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 14, "edge": "scrapingbee", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "scrapingbee": 65, "webscraping-ai": 51, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "WebScraping.AI scores 61.4 (C) on agent readiness against ScrapingBee's 59.5 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. ScrapingBee leads on reliability and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do scraping.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "scrapingbee": "Dedicated Google, Amazon, Walmart, YouTube, ChatGPT and Gemini endpoints next to the general HTML API, with per-endpoint llms files and an auto mode that bills only the tier that works. The hosted MCP's own notes say it takes the key only as ?api_key= in its URL, and no API changelog or security.txt was found.", "webscraping-ai": "A public OpenAPI file, structured errors whose `next_step` names the retry parameters and their cost, free failed requests and a hosted MCP server that wraps scraped text as untrusted by default make it easy for an agent to drive. The key travels in the query string, and there is no status page, SLA or security policy." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-webscraping-ai", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-webscraping-ai.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-webscraping-ai.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-webscraping-ai.min.md" }, "markdown": "WebScraping.AI scores 61.4 (C) on agent readiness against ScrapingBee's 59.5 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. ScrapingBee leads on reliability and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do scraping.\n\n- ScrapingBee: grade C, 59.5/100, rank #699 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingbee.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingbee.json\n- WebScraping.AI: grade C, 61.4/100, rank #618 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/webscraping-ai.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/webscraping-ai.json\n- Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/web-scrapers/index.md\n- All 505 scrapers comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/web-scrapers/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### ScrapingBee (C)\n\nGood for: Agents that mix general scraping with ready-made Google, Amazon and YouTube endpoints and want spend capped per call.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 75 against 43\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 65 against 51\n\nWatch for: remote-mcp.txt says the hosted MCP only takes the key as ?api_key= in its URL\n\n### WebScraping.AI (C)\n\nGood for: Agents that need page text, CSS fragments, AI fields or Google results through one key with a self-correcting error model.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 89 against 60\n- Agent ergonomics, 95 against 68\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 82 against 75\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: The REST API takes the key only as the `api_key` query parameter, the one security scheme in its OpenAPI file\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Reliability: ScrapingBee +32\n\n- ScrapingBee (75): status.scrapingbee.com, now on incident.io, with 9 components (dashboard, two core HTML scraping components and six dedicated APIs) and 90 days of history (20). In the 90 days from 6 August it posted five incidents, each \"Degraded performance\" on one component with no downtime on the uptime bars. Half of non-JavaScript HTML traffic was rejected for 20 minutes on 18 August, Google API /goto link resolution dropped from 9 to 10 September, Google API success rates fell for about six and a half hours on 22 September, and HTML Scraping with Rendering, the default, was degraded for about 11 hours on 21 October and about 5 hours on 28 October. Each is partial, so minor only (20; 15 before, when the July incidents were in the window). Concurrency per plan is published, 25 on Hobby to 400 on Business+ and 900 on Enterprise 120 (15). 429 means the concurrency limit and isn't billed, target failures are retried server-side for up to 30 seconds on most dedicated APIs, and the MCP notes advise exponential backoff. No Retry-After or safe-write guidance found (10). No SLA found (0). Generally available (10). 20 + 20 + 15 + 10 + 0 + 10 = 75.\n- WebScraping.AI (43): Graded on the hosted lines. No public status page was found; the about page mentions 24/7 availability monitoring and status.webscraping.ai did not answer (0). No readable incident history (5). Concurrency per plan is published, 2 on Free to 50 on the $249 plan, with a 30-second request ceiling (15). 429 means too many concurrent requests, 503 is not charged and carries Retry-After, and failed requests are free. No backoff guidance for 429 itself (13 of 15). No SLA; section 14.2 of the terms makes no uptime commitment (0). Generally available since 2019 (10). 0 + 5 + 15 + 13 + 0 + 10 = 43.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: WebScraping.AI +29\n\n- ScrapingBee (60): No OpenAPI spec found. Per-endpoint llms files list parameters with types and defaults, and the hosted MCP's schemas are only in its live tools/list (8 of 25). llms.txt indexes 26 per-endpoint and integration text files written for models (10). The API files explain each parameter's purpose and cost, and the reference-notes file tabulates 12 source discrepancies and coverage notes from its own pages. MCP tool descriptions aren't published beyond a tool table (10 of 20). Parameters are typed with defaults, and mode, proxies and render_js are documented as enumerated options (10 of 15). Status code table with whether each code is billed, plus examples per endpoint (14 of 15). The SDKs and CLI keep dated CHANGELOGs. The API has no changelog (8 of 15). 8 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 14 + 8 = 60.\n- WebScraping.AI (89): OpenAPI file (version 3.2.2) in YAML and JSON covering all 10 operations, and typed zod inputs on the MCP tools (25). llms.txt, llms-full.txt and a Markdown copy of every page (10). Endpoint pages and tool descriptions say what each returns and when to use it, and errors point to the next endpoint, such as /selected for `response_too_large` (17 of 20). Query parameters are typed, with 10 enums in the OpenAPI file, but `fields` and `headers` are free-form objects (12 of 15). Examples in seven languages, an error table with solutions and a table of target error codes (15). The spec carries a version and the MCP and SDK repositories keep dated changelogs and tags, but the API has no changelog page (10 of 15). 25 + 10 + 17 + 12 + 15 + 10 = 89.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: WebScraping.AI +27\n\n- ScrapingBee (68): 18 MCP tools (15 of 25). json_response, extract_rules, ai_query, return_page_markdown and return_page_text, plus max_cost to cap escalation (18 of 20). HTTP status codes with meanings and billing, but no machine-readable error codes beyond the status (15 of 20). Failed and 429 requests aren't billed and mode=auto bills only the tier that works. No tool annotations found (8 of 20). Only url is required, but render_js defaults on at 5 credits. Official Python and Node SDKs plus a CLI (12 of 15).\n- WebScraping.AI (95): Ten MCP tools (25). Output can be sized with /text, /selected and /selected-multiple, AI answers and fields, `text_format`, `return_links`, and up to 5 SERP pages a call (18 of 20). Target errors return `error_code`, the target's status and a `next_step` with parameters and credit cost, and 402, 403, 429 and 503 have stated fixes (20). Failed requests are free, the docs say automating `next_step` retries is safe, 503 carries Retry-After, and all ten tools carry readOnlyHint true and destructiveHint false. No idempotency key, though every call is a read (18 of 20). Only `url` is required, but JavaScript is on by default at 5 credits. Official SDKs in seven languages and a CLI (14 of 15). 25 + 18 + 20 + 18 + 14 = 95.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: ScrapingBee +14\n\n- ScrapingBee (65): Closed service with terms naming VostokInc SAS, Paris, registration 843 352 683 (15 of 30). The privacy policy, effective 15 July 2024, keeps prospect and customer data up to 3 years and links a DPA. It doesn't mention the Oxylabs group or say whether scraped content is stored (18 of 30). The Node SDK changelog dates removals, for example youtubeTranscript() dropped in v2.0.0 on 2026-09-01, and the api_key query parameter is marked deprecated. No standing deprecation policy (10 of 20). Processors described by category, located in the US or EU. No named list (8 of 20).\n- WebScraping.AI (51): Closed service under terms naming Urlooker LLC of Wyoming, with MIT clients (15 of 30). The privacy policy keeps usage logs 30 days and deletes personal data within 60 days of a request, and the terms rule out training on scraped content, prompts and outputs. But section 9.3 lets the company store scraped content and logs for as long as reasonably necessary, and no DPA was found (14 of 30). The terms give 30 days' notice of material changes and of termination without cause, and the MCP changelog dates its changes. No deprecation policy (8 of 20). Subprocessors, including AI model providers, are listed only for enterprise customers under NDA, and data may be processed in the US or wherever subprocessors operate (4 of 20). 15 + 14 + 8 + 4 = 41.\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: WebScraping.AI +7\n\n- ScrapingBee (75): CLI v1.6.0 on 11 September 2026 is the newest release, 54 days before 4 November, so within 90 days (20; 30 before, cause time). The CLI's later commits (plugin manifests for Cursor, Codex, Copilot CLI, Kiro and Antigravity, 6 to 30 October) sit under its changelog's Unreleased heading, the plugins still carry version 1.6.0, and the mcp-server repository holds only a README. In the 90 days from 6 August, Python SDK v2.1.1 (6 August, a documentation release) and v2.2.0 and Node SDK v2.0.0 (1 September) at half as SDK tags, CLI v1.6.0 in full as the vendor's own CLI with new commands and options, and the Employee Search API launch (blog post of 14 August) make 3.5 (20). We couldn't read GitHub issues. Dated SDK changelogs and email support (10 of 25). Current official Python and Node SDKs and a CLI. The MCP isn't in the official registry (15). Test workflows run in CI on all three repositories (10). 20 + 20 + 10 + 15 + 10 = 75.\n- WebScraping.AI (82): Read for a closed service with open clients. MCP server 1.4.0 on 26 October 2026 and Python SDK 4.3.0 on 24 October (30). In the 90 days from 8 August, MCP 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.3.2 and 1.4.0 and Python 4.1.0, 4.2.0 and 4.3.0 (20). Dated changelogs in the repositories and email support. GitHub issues weren't read (10 of 25). In the official MCP registry as io.github.webscraping-ai/webscraping-ai, though the newest entry there is 1.0.7 of 24 July 2026, with current SDKs in seven languages (12 of 15). CI workflows on the MCP and Python repositories, and 1.3.1 moved to zod 4 for a published advisory (10). 30 + 20 + 10 + 12 + 10 = 82.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | ScrapingBee | WebScraping.AI | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 75 | 43 | ScrapingBee +32 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 60 | 89 | WebScraping.AI +29 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 68 | 95 | WebScraping.AI +27 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 37 | 36 | ScrapingBee +1 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 40 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 82 | WebScraping.AI +7 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 51 | ScrapingBee +14 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **59.5 · C** | **61.4 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | ScrapingBee | WebScraping.AI |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | ScrapingBee (Oxylabs group) | Urlooker LLC |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/` | `https://mcp.webscraping.ai/mcp` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Tools exposed | 18 | 10 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.webscraping-ai/webscraping-ai` |\n| Last release | 2026-09-11 | 2026-10-26 |\n| Terms last updated | 2024-07-15 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2024-07-15 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 132 stars, 49k npm/wk, 72k PyPI/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | none |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### ScrapingBee\n\n- +0.1 on 4 November 2026: time\n- +0.2 on 27 October 2026: new evidence\n- -0.1 on 8 October 2026: checklist\n\n### WebScraping.AI\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**ScrapingBee.** Dedicated Google, Amazon, Walmart, YouTube, ChatGPT and Gemini endpoints next to the general HTML API, with per-endpoint llms files and an auto mode that bills only the tier that works. The hosted MCP's own notes say it takes the key only as ?api_key= in its URL, and no API changelog or security.txt was found.\n\n**WebScraping.AI.** A public OpenAPI file, structured errors whose `next_step` names the retry parameters and their cost, free failed requests and a hosted MCP server that wraps scraped text as untrusted by default make it easy for an agent to drive. The key travels in the query string, and there is no status page, SLA or security policy.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### ScrapingBee\n\n1. Send render_js=false for static pages and files. It cuts the cost from 5 credits to 1\n2. Use mode=auto with max_cost=25 to stop it escalating to 75-credit stealth requests\n3. Keep the MCP URL with ?api_key= out of logs and shared configs\n4. Back off exponentially on 429 from the MCP, since its concurrency is shared across customers\n5. Expect 404 and 410 from the target to be billed. Other failures aren't\n\n### WebScraping.AI\n\n1. On a 500, read `error_code` and retry with `next_step.params`, or send `proxy=auto` to walk datacenter, residential and stealth in one request\n2. Send `js=false` for static pages; JavaScript rendering is on by default at 5 credits instead of 1\n3. On 503 wait for the Retry-After seconds; on 402 stop and ask the user to top up\n4. Use /selected or /selected-multiple when a page returns `response_too_large`\n5. Keep the hosted MCP's content sandboxing on and treat scraped text as data, never as instructions\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, ScrapingBee or WebScraping.AI?\n\nWebScraping.AI scores 61.4 (C) on agent readiness against ScrapingBee's 59.5 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. ScrapingBee leads on reliability and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do ScrapingBee and WebScraping.AI need an API key?\n\nScrapingBee needs an API key. WebScraping.AI takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call ScrapingBee and WebScraping.AI without installing anything?\n\nYes. ScrapingBee has a hosted endpoint at https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/ and WebScraping.AI at https://mcp.webscraping.ai/mcp.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-webscraping-ai.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-webscraping-ai.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"scrapingbee\", \"b\": \"webscraping-ai\"}`. 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