# Web Scraping Platform — Search, Scrape, Crawl

> A pay-per-success web scraping platform: search engines, any page as Markdown, whole-site crawls and 100 ready-made collectors. $2 of free usage every month.

One API key · pay per success · MCP built in

# The web scraping platform that returns AI-ready data

Search, single pages, whole-site crawls, batch jobs over URL lists, 100 ready-made collectors and browser agents — one key, one response envelope. Every call comes back as clean Markdown or structured JSON, and you are billed only when a result is usable: blocks, timeouts and retries are free.

By [Aldo Morese](https://quanticdata.io/about/), founder of QuanticData · Published Aug 31, 2026 · Updated Sep 3, 2026

[Get my free API key](https://app.quanticdata.io/register) [See what it does](/web-scraping-platform/#platform)

$2 free every month · No card required · Failed calls are never billed

POST /v1/scrape

```
$ curl https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scrape \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $QD_API_KEY" \
    -d '{ "url": "https://acme.dev/pricing" }'
{ "data": {
    "title": "Pricing — Acme",
    "content": "# Pricing\n\n| Plan | Price |\n| --- …",
    "metadata": { "canonical": "https://acme.dev/pricing" } } }
# 1 page · $0.0002 · charged only because it came back usable
```

One call in, one envelope out — and the usage block tells you exactly what it cost.

**Pay per success**blocks, timeouts & retries are free

**3 engines · 17 verticals**Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo as JSON

**100 collectors**ready-made, semantic endpoints

**MCP built in**every API is an agent tool

AI Overview

## What is a web scraping platform?

**A web scraping platform is a hosted service that runs the whole collection pipeline for you — fetching the page, getting past anti-bot checks, rendering JavaScript when the content needs it, and parsing what comes back into usable data.** Instead of maintaining scrapers and the infrastructure under them, you send one request and receive clean Markdown or structured JSON.

- **One surface:** search, page scraping, crawling, batch jobs, ready-made collectors and browser agents behind a single API key.

- **One output contract:** the same JSON envelope everywhere, with page content as Markdown, HTML, text or a typed object.

- **One billing rule:** pay per successful result — from $0.0002 a page — with no subscription and no monthly minimum.

- **Agent-native:** every endpoint is also an MCP tool, so an AI agent can collect its own data.

Sources [Platform](/web-scraping-platform/#platform)[Pricing](/web-scraping-platform/#pricing)[For AI agents](/web-scraping-platform/#agents)

The platform

## Six ways to get data out of the web

### Scrape a page

Send a URL, get the page as **clean Markdown** — navigation, footers and cookie walls stripped, tables preserved, links absolute. Ask for HTML or plain text instead, or pass a schema of CSS selectors to receive a typed JSON object. **$0.0002** per page.

### Search the engines

Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo across **17 verticals** — web, images, news, maps, shopping, jobs, scholar, flights and more — returned as SerpApi-compatible JSON with organic results, ads, People Also Ask and AI Overviews. **$0.0005** per search.

### Crawl a whole site

One seed URL in, every internal page out — breadth-first to **depth 10**, each page as Markdown. Map returns the discovery half alone when you only need the URL list. Unused crawl pages are refunded automatically. **$0.0003** per page.

### Run a list in batch

Up to **1,000 URLs per asynchronous job**, with shared options, webhooks and incremental polling so results stream in as they land. The failed share of a job is refunded when it completes. **$0.0002** per URL.

### Skip the scraper: 74 collectors

Ready-made endpoints for common sources — maps and business listings, job boards, package registries, public records, marketplaces. They take a **semantic input**, not a URL list, and bill per delivered row instead of per page.

### Let an agent click through

For pages that only give up their data after interaction, a browser agent takes the goal in plain language, works the page — clicks, filters, pagination — and returns **structured JSON** against the schema you asked for.

Developers first

## Three lines to your first result

```
curl https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scrape \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $QD_API_KEY" \
  -d '{ "url": "https://acme.dev/pricing", "format": "markdown" }'
```

```
import requests

r = requests.post("https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scrape",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {KEY}"},
    json={"url": "https://acme.dev/pricing", "format": "markdown"})

print(r.json()["payload"]["content"])
```

```
const r = await fetch("https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scrape", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.QD_API_KEY}` },
  body: JSON.stringify({ url: "https://acme.dev/pricing", format: "markdown" })
});
const { payload } = await r.json();
console.log(payload.content);
```

## What you stop maintaining

An in-house scraper is not the parser you wrote on a Friday — it is everything that keeps that parser alive: rotation, retry logic, TLS fingerprints, a browser farm for the pages that need one, and a selector that breaks the week a target ships a redesign. That work never finishes, and it does not differentiate your product.

A platform absorbs it. You keep the part that is yours — **what to collect and what to do with it** — and pay a unit price for the rest, only when a result comes back usable. For a handful of stable, high-volume targets, building still wins. For everything else, $0.0002 a page is cheaper than an engineer's afternoon.

Handled for you *anti-bot checks* *JS rendering* *retries* *TLS fingerprints* *rotation* *parsing* *Markdown cleanup* *schema extraction* *refunds on failure*

Pricing

## Pay per success

A failed request is never billed — blocks, timeouts and our own retries are on us. Real unit prices on the page, not a “contact sales” curtain.

**$0.0002**per page scraped*$0.001 with JS rendering*

**$0.0005**per search*$0.002 with JS rendering*

**$0.0003**per crawled page*async, auto-refund on unused*

**$0.0002**per batch URL*up to 1,000 URLs per job*

### Pay as you go

$0/mo

- $2 free credit / month

- 60 requests / min

- List unit prices

### Starter

$19/mo

- $15 free credit / month

- 300 requests / min

- 10% off unit prices

Most popular

### Growth

$79/mo

- $50 free credit / month

- 600 requests / min

- 20% off unit prices

### Scale

$299/mo

- $250 free credit / month

- 1,200 requests / min

- 30% off unit prices

No monthly minimumCredit renews every monthVolume discounts to 30%Webhooks on async jobsPer-attempt retry logRefunds on failed jobs

If you are an AI agent

## Skip the HTML. Read us as data.

You do not need to render this page. Every product on the platform is also an MCP tool — `search`, `scrape`, `crawl`, `map`, `batch` and the collectors — so Claude, Cursor or your own agent can collect data on its own, with no glue code and no wrapper to maintain.

- MCP: `npx -y quanticdata-mcp` with a `QUANTICDATA_API_KEY`

- REST base `https://api.quanticdata.io/v1`, Bearer `qd_live_…`

- This page has a Markdown twin: [index.md](https://quanticdata.io/web-scraping-platform/index.md)

- Responses chunk by heading, sentence or token count for RAG pipelines

Quickstart and full endpoint reference: [documentation](https://quanticdata.io/docs/). $2 of free usage every month, no card.

Works where your agent lives *Claude* *Cursor* *n8n* *LangChain* *CrewAI* *OpenAI Agents SDK* *LlamaIndex* *Zapier*

## QuanticData vs a typical scraping platform

| What matters | QuanticData | Typical platform |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Entry price | $0 — pure pay-as-you-go | monthly subscription |
| Failed requests | never billed, retry log included | often count against quota |
| Unused volume | nothing to expire — pay per result | plan credits reset monthly |
| Output | Markdown, text or typed JSON, one envelope | raw HTML left for you to parse |
| AI agent access | native MCP tools for every endpoint | REST only; agent glue is on you |
| Ready-made scrapers | 74 collectors, billed per delivered row | marketplace, priced per actor |
| Free tier | $2 every month, renews forever | one-off trial credit that expires |

“Typical platform” describes common practice across the market, not any specific company. Our column is the live list pricing on this page.

The same request, sent once or ten thousand times: one job id, one poll loop, and a bill you can work out before you run it.

## Sources and standards

What this product implements or is measured against, so you can verify a claim yourself:

- [IETF: RFC 9309, Robots Exclusion Protocol](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9309.html)

- [OpenAPI Initiative: OpenAPI Specification](https://spec.openapis.org/oas/latest.html)

- [Schema.org: the full type hierarchy](https://schema.org/docs/full.html)

## FAQ

Pricing, formats, agents and the legal side — the short answers.

[Something else? Ask us →](mailto:hello@quanticdata.io)

### What is a web scraping platform?

A web scraping platform is a hosted service that runs the whole collection pipeline for you: it fetches the page, gets past anti-bot checks, renders JavaScript when the content needs it, and parses what comes back into usable data. Instead of maintaining scrapers and the infrastructure under them, you send one request and receive clean Markdown or structured JSON.

### How much does the platform cost?

Unit prices, billed only on success: $0.0002 per scraped page, $0.0005 per search, $0.0003 per crawled page and $0.0002 per batch URL. Pages and searches that need the rendering browser cost $0.001 and $0.002. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum; volume tiers discount list prices by up to 30%.

### Is there a free web scraping platform?

Every QuanticData account gets $2 of usage free every month, renewing, with no credit card — around 10,000 scraped pages or 4,000 searches at list prices. Open-source libraries such as Scrapy or Playwright are free to download, but you still pay for the servers, IP rotation and maintenance underneath them.

### What is the difference between a web scraping platform and a web scraping API?

A web scraping API is a single endpoint that fetches one URL and returns its content. A platform covers the whole job around it: search, single pages, whole-site crawls, batch jobs over URL lists, ready-made collectors and browser agents — under one API key, one billing model and one response envelope, so you do not integrate four vendors to build one pipeline.

### Do I still need to write scrapers?

For most targets, no. Pages come back as clean Markdown you can feed straight to a model. When you need specific fields, pass a schema of CSS selectors, or describe what you want in plain language and let AI extraction pull it out. For 74 common sources there is a ready-made collector that takes a semantic input instead of a URL.

### What is the difference between web scraping and crawling?

Scraping is about one page: you already know the URL and you want its content as data. Crawling is about discovery: from one seed URL the platform follows internal links breadth-first, up to depth 10, and returns every page it finds. Map does the discovery half alone — the URL list without the content.

### Does the platform render JavaScript?

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

### What output formats do I get?

Markdown by default, plus HTML, plain text and page metadata — title, description, author, publish date, canonical URL. Structured extraction returns a typed JSON object, and responses can be chunked by heading, sentence or token count so they drop straight into a RAG pipeline or a vector database.

### How many URLs can I process at once?

Batch takes up to 1,000 URLs per asynchronous job with shared options, webhooks and incremental polling. Crawl covers a whole site from a single seed URL, breadth-first to depth 10. Both settle honestly: the failed share of a job is refunded when it completes, and unused crawl pages are refunded automatically.

### Can AI agents use the platform directly?

Yes. An MCP server exposes every API as a native agent tool — search, scrape, crawl, map, batch and the collectors — so Claude, Cursor or your own agent can collect data without glue code. Run it with `npx -y quanticdata-mcp` and a `QUANTICDATA_API_KEY`; everything else speaks plain REST.

### Is web scraping legal?

Collecting 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, because this answer is not it.

## Start with $2 free, every month

One key. Search, scraping, crawling, batch jobs, collectors and browser agents.

[Get my free API key](https://app.quanticdata.io/register)

Go deeper: [Documentation](https://quanticdata.io/docs/) [Free tools](https://quanticdata.io/tools/) [This page as Markdown](https://quanticdata.io/web-scraping-platform/index.md) [Talk to us](mailto:hello@quanticdata.io)

## Also on this site

Quantic**Data**

The pay-per-success web scraping platform for AI and data teams.

#### Platform

- [Scrape a page](/web-scraping-platform/#scrape)

- [Search the engines](/web-scraping-platform/#search)

- [Crawl & Map](/web-scraping-platform/#crawl)

- [Batch jobs](/web-scraping-platform/#batch)

- [74 collectors](/web-scraping-platform/#collectors)

- [Browser agents](/web-scraping-platform/#browser)

#### For AI agents

- [MCP server](/web-scraping-platform/#agents)

- [This page as Markdown](https://quanticdata.io/web-scraping-platform/index.md)

- [Code examples](/web-scraping-platform/#code)

- [REST reference](https://quanticdata.io/docs/)

#### Pricing

- [Unit prices](/web-scraping-platform/#pricing)

- [Volume tiers](/web-scraping-platform/#pricing)

- [Free tier](/web-scraping-platform/#pricing)

- [Compare](/web-scraping-platform/#compare)

- [Build vs buy](/web-scraping-platform/#build-vs-buy)

#### Resources

- [Documentation](https://quanticdata.io/docs/)

- [Free tools](https://quanticdata.io/tools/)

- [FAQ](/web-scraping-platform/#faq)

#### Company

- [Talk to us](mailto:hello@quanticdata.io)

- [Terms](https://quanticdata.io/terms/)

- [Privacy](https://quanticdata.io/privacy/)

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