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ScrapingAnt

Web scraping API with proxies and AI extraction

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What is

ScrapingAnt

ScrapingAnt is a web scraping API that renders pages in headless Chrome behind rotating residential and datacenter proxies, returned from a single endpoint. It can return raw HTML, clean Markdown for LLMs, or structured JSON pulled out with plain English prompts, and it offers standalone proxies and custom dataset delivery. GTM and data teams use it to collect company, listing and review data from websites to feed lead lists and research.

02 — Who it’s for

Ideal Customer Profile

Built for developers, data teams and technical growth or RevOps teams at startups and small businesses that need reliable web data without running their own browser and proxy fleet.

03 — Capabilities

Key Features

Headless Chrome rendering API

Rotating residential and datacenter proxies

AI data extraction to JSON

LLM ready Markdown output

Unlimited parallel requests

MCP server for AI coding tools

Custom dataset delivery

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06 — FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

What is ScrapingAnt used for?

ScrapingAnt fetches and renders web pages through real Chrome browsers and rotating proxies so you can extract data from sites at scale without managing infrastructure.

Can ScrapingAnt return structured data instead of HTML?

Yes. You can describe the data you want in plain English and get JSON back, or request the page as clean Markdown ready for LLMs, with no CSS selectors needed.

Does ScrapingAnt work with AI agents?

Yes. ScrapingAnt offers an MCP server with tools for HTML, Markdown and text output that works in Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf and other MCP aware editors.

Does ScrapingAnt offer proxies separately?

Yes. Residential proxies with over 3 million IPs in more than 100 countries and high speed datacenter proxies are available for direct use, with country, state and city targeting and sticky sessions.

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ScrapingAnt

Web scraping API with proxies and AI extraction

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