WebScrapingAPI handles all the blocking points that you may encounter when trying to web scrape a website.

Collect data from any type of webpage: WebScrapingAPI manages in the backend all possible blocking points such as proxies, Javascript rendering, IP rotations, CAPTCHAs, and many more.

Easy to use, easy to customize: Our advanced features allow you to customize your requests based on your specific needs, play with: headers, IP geolocation, sticky sessions, and much more.

Lightning-fast scraping, enterprise-grade scaling: Over 10,000+ companies collect 50+ million pages every month on our API. Benefit from high-level professional services using WebScrapingAPI.

WebScrapingAPI is a simple, fast and reliable REST-API that collects the HTML from any web page and provides ready-to-process data whilst managing in the backend all possible blocking points.

Detailed documentation covering usage guides and code examples in different programming languages can be found here: https://docs.webscrapingapi.com/

To authorize your API call, append the api_key parameter to the url: https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key={YOUR_API_KEY}&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.ipify.org

After creating a WebScrapingAPI account, the account dashboard will reveal the unique API access key you can use to authenticate with the API. To do so, simply attach the api_key parameter to the API’s base URL and set it to your API access key.

If your request fails, WebScrapingAPI will return an error in JSON format. You ca find in the documentation an example error that occurs when the API failed scraping the requested URL. If you cannot find it or if any questions remain unanswered, please feel free to contact our technical support team.