ScrapingBee

ScrapingBee is a French web scraping API founded in 2019 and headquartered in Toulouse. The product has become a go-to choice in the developer community for one reason: it makes scraping JavaScript-heavy websites trivial through a single REST API call that returns clean HTML.

The ScrapingBee API handles the entire scraping pipeline behind the scenes — headless Chrome rendering, IP rotation across residential and datacenter pools, CAPTCHA bypass, and request retries. Customers send a target URL and get back rendered HTML, with optional CSS-selector extraction for structured data.

What makes ScrapingBee stand out is its simplicity-first design. Pricing is transparent and credit-based: starting at $49 per month for 150,000 API credits, with premium proxies costing 25 credits per request and datacenter proxies costing 1 credit. This makes cost modeling far easier than per-GB proxy pricing.

The platform's Google Search API and AI Web Scraping API have become popular adjacencies. The Google Search API returns structured SERP data without dealing with anti-bot challenges, while the AI Scraping API uses LLMs to extract structured data from arbitrary pages — a natural fit for AI agents that need clean data inputs.

Developer experience is excellent, with native libraries for Python, Node.js, Ruby, PHP, Java, and Go, plus clear documentation and a generous free tier (1,000 credits) for evaluation. The dashboard exposes per-domain success rates, latency metrics, and detailed billing breakdowns.

For solo developers, growth teams, and small-to-medium scraping operations that value simplicity and predictable pricing over deep enterprise features, ScrapingBee is one of the most loved scraping APIs in the developer ecosystem — particularly when combined with AI tooling that needs reliable web data.