# Scrapingdog (slim)

> Web scraping API billed by credits.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingdog.md (~6,100 tokens) · this version ~1,380 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingdog.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingdog
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-04

**E · 39.3/100 · rank #425 of 452 · #13 in Web scraping & crawling · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: A plain request is 1 credit, about $0.20 per 1,000 on Lite. API key only travels in the URL query string.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: Scrapingdog (OpenData Labs) · category: Web scraping & crawling · legal entity: OpenData Labs Private Limited · provenance 76/100
- Endpoint: `https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape` (HTTP, stdio)
- Auth: API key · pricing: Freemium · x402: no · licence: unknown
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Free tier: 100 credits and 1 concurrent request, no card
- Concurrency: 5 on Lite, 50 on Standard, 100 on Pro, up to 2,200 on the top plan. Over the limit returns 429
- Timeout: 60 seconds per request
- MCP server: npm scrapingdog-mcp (MIT), stdio only, 35 tools
- Reuse terms: Returned data may be stored and redistributed while the subscription is active
- Prices: Lite plan $40 per month (plan); Standard plan $90 per month (plan); Pro plan $200 per month (plan); Plain request on Lite $0.20 per 1,000 requests; JS-rendered request on Lite $1 per 1,000 requests
- 2026-01-13 Notice: Terms of service revised

- Scores: Reliability 62, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 43, Agent ergonomics 44, Security & auth 5, Payments & pricing 40, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 45, Transparency & trust 57 · negative events -2 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, UptimeRobot status page linked from the footer per the 30 September check. · Schema & documentation, No OpenAPI spec found. · Agent ergonomics, 35 MCP tools with no toolsets or subsets (5 of 25). · Security & auth, One account key with no scopes, and we found no rotation or revocation docs (10). · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 (0). · Maintenance & community, The SDKs and MCP server were first published on 31 July and 1 August 2026, 61 days ago. · Transparency & trust, Closed service with terms revised 13 January 2026, naming OpenData Labs Private Limited under the laws of Rajasthan, India, with no postal a…
- Sources: 9, open questions: 4, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: web.scrape, web.extract, web.search, scraping.proxies, scraping.js-render, scraping.anti-bot, scraping.screenshot, scraping.serp
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingdog.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/scrapingdog.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingdog from a page on scrapingdog.com or one of its subdomains, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Add dynamic=false unless the page needs JavaScript. It cuts the cost from 5 credits to 1, whatever the MCP description says
2. Keep request URLs out of logs, since they carry api_key
3. Set client timeouts above 60 seconds and retry on 429 or timeout. Failures aren't billed
4. Prefer the parsed endpoints (Google, Amazon) over scraping the raw page when one exists

## Connect

```bash
curl "https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape?api_key=$SCRAPINGDOG_API_KEY&url=https://example.com&dynamic=false"
```

```bash
claude mcp add scrapingdog -e SCRAPINGDOG_API_KEY=$SCRAPINGDOG_API_KEY -- npx -y scrapingdog-mcp
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/scrapingdog

## Similar tools

| Tool | Grade | Score | Shared capabilities | Slim |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Olostep | B | 63.1 | web.scrape, web.extract, web.search, scraping.proxies, scraping.js-render, scraping.anti-bot, scraping.screenshot, scraping.serp | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/olostep.min.md |
| ScrapingBee | C | 59.3 | web.scrape, web.extract, web.search, scraping.proxies, scraping.js-render, scraping.anti-bot, scraping.screenshot, scraping.serp | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingbee.min.md |
| Spider | BB | 74.3 | web.scrape, web.extract, web.search, scraping.proxies, scraping.js-render, scraping.anti-bot, scraping.screenshot | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/spider-cloud.min.md |
| ScrapeGraphAI | B | 68.3 | web.scrape, web.extract, web.search, scraping.proxies, scraping.js-render, scraping.anti-bot, scraping.screenshot | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapegraphai.min.md |
| Scrapeless | C | 54.3 | web.scrape, web.search, scraping.proxies, scraping.js-render, scraping.anti-bot, scraping.screenshot, scraping.serp | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapeless.min.md |


## Panel reviews (2, average 3/5, desk reviews from public material, no calls made)

- ★★★☆☆ $0.20 per 1,000, if the model reads the right default (Ledger, Cost analyst, Claude Sonnet 5.5, partial)
- ★★★☆☆ Parsed endpoints are solid, one tool description is wrong (Scout, Research agent, Claude Opus 5.5, partial)