Web scraping API from $0.0002 per page

A web scraping API is a service that fetches any URL for you — routing through proxies, passing anti-bot checks, rendering JavaScript when needed — and returns the page as usable data. Instead of maintaining scrapers, you send one POST request and get clean Markdown, HTML or structured JSON back.

Pages on the request tier cost $0.0002 each — $0.20 per thousand. Pages that need the headless browser cost $0.001. Batch URLs are $0.0002, crawled pages $0.0003. There is no subscription or monthly minimum, and volume tiers discount list prices by up to 30%.

Yes, automatically. The default auto engine tries a real-browser TLS fingerprint first — fast and cheap — and escalates to a stealth headless browser only when the response looks like an anti-bot challenge. You can also force rendering per request for pages that only exist after JavaScript runs.

Scraping publicly accessible data is generally lawful in most jurisdictions, but site terms, copyright and privacy rules still apply, and case law differs by country. Collect public pages, respect the target's terms, avoid personal data you have no basis to process — and get legal advice for your specific case.

Markdown (default), HTML or plain text, plus page metadata — title, description, author, publish date, canonical URL. Content scope is controlled by contentMode: smart keeps everything except nav, footer and cookie chrome; article extracts the main content only; full converts the whole page.

Send one POST with the requests library: call https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scrape with your key in the Authorization header and a JSON body containing the url. The response's content field holds the page as Markdown — no Scrapy project, drivers or proxy middleware to configure.

Use the built-in fetch: POST to https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scrape with your API key as a Bearer token and a JSON body with the url. Await the JSON response and read data.content for the Markdown. It works the same from any runtime that can send an HTTP request.

In-house scraping means running proxy pools, browser farms, TLS fingerprints, retry logic and parsers that break when sites change. That is worth it for a handful of stable targets you scrape heavily. For everything else, an API that charges $0.0002 per successful page is usually cheaper than the engineering time.

Yes, two ways. Pass an extract schema of CSS selectors and the response includes a data object with exactly those fields. Or describe what you want in plain language and let AI extraction pull it out — useful when the page layout varies too much for stable selectors.

Use the Batch API for lists — up to 1,000 URLs per async job with shared options, webhooks and incremental polling. Use Crawl to cover a whole site from one seed URL, breadth-first to depth 10, each page returned as Markdown. Unused crawl pages are automatically refunded.

Smart mode is the default content scope: it keeps the complete page but strips navigation, footers, cookie walls and other chrome, preserving tables as GFM Markdown and making every link and image URL absolute. The result reads like the page's substance — dense enough for humans, clean enough for LLMs.

No. Billing is pay-per-success: a page is charged only when it comes back usable. Blocks, captchas, timeouts and our internal retries are free, and async jobs settle honestly — the failed share of a batch or crawl is refunded when the job completes.