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Web scraping API

A web scraping API is an HTTP service that fetches and reads web pages on your behalf and returns the extracted data, so you call an endpoint instead of running and maintaining your own scraper.

A web scraping API is a hosted service you call over HTTP to collect data from web pages. You send it a request describing what you want, and it handles the work of fetching the page, rendering it if needed, and returning the result. The point is to move the operational burden (browsers, retries, parsing) off your machine and behind a stable endpoint.

Most scraping APIs return raw HTML or a generic text dump, leaving you to parse it. Extracto is a schema-first scraping API: you send a URL plus a JSON Schema, the page is loaded in a real headless Chrome instance, and an LLM maps the rendered content onto your schema at temperature zero. The response is validated against your schema before it comes back, so you receive typed fields, not markup.

Extracto runs every request through a real headless browser with a managed anti-bot bypass layer, so it works on any public HTTPS URL, including JavaScript-rendered and anti-bot-protected sites behind Cloudflare, DataDome, or PerimeterX. Proxies and anti-bot handling are managed for you, with no setup, and it respects robots.txt and site terms. Login-gated content (LinkedIn, X, Instagram) needs session cookies and is available on Enterprise. The free plan covers 100 pages with no credit card, and paid plans start at $14 per month.

Examples

One call, typed output

Instead of writing a scraper, you POST a URL and a schema to the API and get back a JSON object with title as a string and price as a number, already validated and ready to store.

Batch a list of pages

Given a list of documentation URLs, you can call the API for each one with the same schema, collecting a consistent set of records without maintaining any parsing code yourself.

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Web scraping API: FAQ

Do I need to write any parsing code to use a web scraping API?
With Extracto, no. You describe the fields you want in a JSON Schema and receive validated, typed data back. There are no CSS selectors or XPath to write, and nothing to update when a site changes its layout.
Can a web scraping API get data from any website?
Extracto works on any public HTTPS URL, including JavaScript-rendered and anti-bot-protected pages, thanks to a real headless browser and a managed bypass layer with proxies handled for you. The one exception in the self-serve product is login-gated content (LinkedIn, X, Instagram), which needs session cookies and is available on Enterprise. It respects robots.txt and terms of service throughout.

Want to put this into practice? Extracto extracts structured data from a URL using a JSON schema, with the result validated before it leaves the API. Try the live demo or read the docs.