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ScrapingAnt

Web data infrastructure for builders combining headless Chrome rendering, rotating proxies

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ScrapingAnt is a web scraping API platform that handles the complex infrastructure of data extraction—headless browser rendering, proxy rotation, and anti-bot measures—behind a single endpoint. It solves the problem of managing headless Chrome instances, rotating IPs, and parsing JavaScript-heavy pages, allowing developers to focus on collecting data rather than maintaining scraping infrastructure.

The platform offers six access methods: a general web scraping API, LLM-ready Markdown output, an AI Data Scraper that converts natural-language descriptions into structured JSON, an MCP server for AI agents, and separate residential and datacenter proxy pools with over 3 million IPs across 100+ countries. Key capabilities include headless Chrome rendering with custom JavaScript snippets and wait-for-selector options, per-request proxy geo-targeting at country, state, and city levels, unlimited parallel requests without concurrency caps, and AI-powered extraction that eliminates the need for CSS selectors or XPath.

ScrapingAnt is designed for developers and teams building price monitoring, SERP scraping, real estate data collection, lead generation, AI agent web access, and brand monitoring pipelines. It offers a free plan with 10,000 monthly credits and no credit card required. Paid plans are credit-based and tiered by monthly credit allowance, with options ranging from 100,000 to over 10 million credits per month, and include varying levels of support and enterprise features.

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