The best web scraping APIs (2026)

Turns any website into LLM-ready markdown or schema-based JSON through one API. Best for: Developers building LLM/RAG apps or agents who want clean markdown or JSON from any URL with minimal setup.

• Scrape, crawl, map and search endpoints
• Clean markdown output for LLMs
• LLM-based JSON extraction with a schema or prompt
• Agent endpoint (preview) and browser interact sessions

A cloud platform and marketplace of thousands of ready-made scrapers (Actors) you can run or build. Best for: Teams that want a ready-made scraper for a popular site (Google Maps, Amazon, social media) or a platform to host their own.

• Apify Store with thousands of prebuilt scrapers (Actors)
• Build and deploy your own Actors (Crawlee, JS/Python)
• Built-in proxy, scheduling, storage and webhooks
• Official MCP server exposing Actors to AI agents

Enterprise-scale proxy network and unblocking/scraping APIs with a huge residential IP pool. Best for: Companies scraping heavily protected sites at scale that need the strongest proxy and unblocking infrastructure.

• Residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile proxy networks
• Web Unlocker with automatic CAPTCHA/anti-bot handling
• Browser API (hosted headless browsers)
• SERP API and site-specific Web Scraper APIs

A simple scraping API that handles headless browsers and proxies, with natural-language AI extraction. Best for: Developers who want a predictable, easy scraping API that handles rendering and proxies without managing infrastructure.

• Headless Chrome rendering with JS scenarios
• Rotating and premium/stealth proxies
• AI extraction via natural-language ai_query
• CSS/XPath extract rules to JSON

Popular open-source Python crawler that outputs LLM-ready markdown and structured data. Best for: Python developers who want a free, self-hosted crawler for RAG/agent pipelines and full control over the stack.

• LLM extraction via any LiteLLM provider, plus CSS/XPath/regex
• Clean and 'fit' markdown output
• Playwright browser control, stealth, sessions, proxies
• Deep crawling strategies (BFS/DFS/best-first)

A per-success scraping API from the makers of Scrapy, with tiered pricing by site difficulty and automatic extraction. Best for: Python/Scrapy teams that want a reliable unblocking API and pay-per-success billing.

• Automatic ban handling and proxy rotation
• Browser rendering and actions
• AI-powered automatic extraction for products, articles, jobs etc.
• Native Scrapy integration and Scrapy Cloud hosting

Prompt-driven LLM scraping, available as an MIT open-source library and a hosted API. Best for: Developers who want prompt-based structured extraction with the option to self-host the open-source library.

• Describe what you want in natural language, get JSON
• Open-source Python library (MIT) with graph-based pipelines
• Hosted API v2 with extract, crawl and search
• Official MCP server (mcp.scrapegraphai.com)

Prefix any URL with r.jina.ai to get clean, LLM-friendly markdown instantly. Best for: Developers who need the fastest, cheapest way to feed a single web page to an LLM.

• Zero-setup: r.jina.ai/<url> returns markdown
• s.jina.ai search-and-read endpoint
• Image captioning and PDF reading
• JSON output and CSS-selector targeting via headers

Managed headless browsers for AI agents, with the Stagehand framework for natural-language automation. Best for: Teams building AI agents that need to log in, click and navigate real browsers reliably in the cloud.

• Serverless headless Chrome sessions at scale
• Stagehand open-source SDK for natural-language actions and extraction
• Session replay and debugging
• Stealth, proxies and persistent auth contexts

Premium proxy provider with a Web Scraper API and AI tools for parsing and crawling. Best for: Businesses needing reliable proxies and a managed scraping API for search and e-commerce data at scale.

• Large residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter proxy pools
• Web Scraper API with JS rendering and geotargeting
• OxyCopilot / AI-assisted parsing
• Dedicated Google, Amazon and e-commerce scrapers