Proxy management
Buying proxies is not enough. Teams still need routing logic, health checks, session behavior, geotargeting, and fallback rules.
Agent-native web scraping API
Crawlora is an agent-native web scraping API for developers who need structured public web data from complex sources. Send API or hosted MCP requests and receive normalized JSON while Crawlora handles proxy routing, browser rendering, retries, rate limits, and scalable scraping infrastructure.
Explore the API catalog, test requests in the Playground, and scale with credit-based pricing when your workflow moves into production.
498
Documented operations in the public API catalog
Multiple platform APIs
Search, maps, travel, property, social, audio, podcasts, marketplaces, app stores, reviews, and finance
60 agent-native tools
Structured endpoints for agent-native automation workflows
The problem
A simple scraper can work for a small test. Production web data pipelines are different. Teams have to manage proxy rotation, browser rendering, queueing, retries, changing page structures, blocked requests, rate limits, monitoring, and output normalization.
Buying proxies is not enough. Teams still need routing logic, health checks, session behavior, geotargeting, and fallback rules.
Many modern pages depend on client-side rendering, dynamic requests, and browser-only behavior.
HTML changes break selectors. Normalized JSON schemas reduce downstream cleanup and rework.
Production systems need clear failure states, retry paths, request IDs, and debuggable responses.
Scraping at scale requires concurrency control, queueing, usage limits, and cost visibility.
Teams need docs, examples, Playground testing, API keys, and predictable response contracts.
API workflow
Developer calls a Crawlora endpoint with an API key. Crawlora routes the request through the right execution path, including proxy routing, browser rendering, retries, and platform-specific handling. The response returns normalized data, usage context, and clear success/failure information that your product can use.
Send request
Crawlora executes
Receive structured JSON
Build your product
Validate before coding
Use the browser tools for one-off checks, then move the same endpoint into production when the result shape and target difficulty are clear.
Paste a public URL and inspect the clean Markdown, metadata, links, and fetch tier before wiring /web/scrape into a pipeline.
Open toolCheck a target URL for anti-bot vendors, difficulty, and the lightest transport that worked before estimating production cost.
Open toolRun a live Google, Bing, or Brave rank check before automating recurring SERP monitoring through search endpoints.
Open toolProduction features
Crawlora reduces the engineering burden of maintaining proxies, browser clusters, parsers, retry logic, rate limits, and scraping infrastructure for supported public web data sources.
Crawlora handles proxy-aware execution so your team does not have to build and maintain proxy routing, testing, and fallback infrastructure.
Use browser execution for dynamic pages that require JavaScript rendering instead of maintaining your own Playwright or Puppeteer cluster.
Crawlora can run browser-backed workloads through managed browser capacity for pages that need more than basic HTTP fetching.
Crawlora detects blocked, challenged, or unusable upstream responses and returns transparent failure context instead of silently returning bad data.
Built-in retry and fallback behavior reduces transient failures and keeps your integration simpler.
Platform-specific endpoints return structured responses so your application can work with clean fields instead of brittle HTML parsing.
Track request volume, credits, rate limits, and API-key usage without building your own metering layer.
Explore endpoints, request bodies, response examples, credit costs, and Playground tests from the documentation.
Feature deep dives
The infrastructure guide explains the execution layer behind Crawlora's structured Web Scraping API: proxy routing, browser rendering, managed browser capacity, challenge-aware execution, retries, usage controls, and scaling.
Crawlora handles managed proxy routing for supported scraping APIs, helping developers avoid proxy pool maintenance, routing logic, health checks, retries, and scaling complexity.
Read featureUse Crawlora browser-backed rendering for JavaScript-heavy public web data workflows without maintaining your own Playwright or Puppeteer infrastructure.
Read featureCrawlora provides managed browser capacity for supported scraping APIs, helping teams avoid running their own distributed browser cluster for dynamic public web data.
Read featureCrawlora helps supported public web data workflows handle common scraping failure modes with managed execution, retries, challenge awareness, and transparent response context.
Read featureCrawlora provides challenge-aware execution and transparent failure context for supported web scraping APIs, helping developers avoid silent bad data from blocked or unusable upstream responses.
Read featureCrawlora reduces transient scraping failures with retry and fallback logic for supported endpoints, helping developers build more reliable structured web data workflows.
Read featureCrawlora provides API-key usage tracking, credit-based pricing, rate limits, and plan controls for structured web scraping API workflows.
Read featureCrawlora provides scalable web scraping API infrastructure for structured public web data workflows, combining proxy-aware execution, browser rendering, retries, usage controls, and normalized JSON.
Read featurePlatform coverage
Crawlora focuses on platform-specific APIs where structured data matters more than raw HTML. Start with the Google Search API, Google Trends API, Google Maps API, Geocoding API, JustWatch API, Airbnb API, TripAdvisor API, Zillow API, TikTok API, YouTube API, App Store API, Google Play API, Spotify and podcast APIs, Shop.app and marketplace APIs, and finance data endpoints.
SERP monitoring, trend tracking, job discovery, suggestions, media search, keyword research, competitive intelligence
Local lead generation, place enrichment, address search, reverse geocoding, business discovery
Creator research, comments, transcripts, trend analysis, campaign monitoring
Title search, provider availability, offers, seasons, episodes, release tracking, and catalog research
Storefront catalogs, product monitoring, shop catalog research, pricing research, marketplace intelligence
Stay search, lodging discovery, destination listings, availability, reviews, and hospitality research
Property search monitoring, home detail enrichment, sale and rental market research
App review analysis, ASO research, competitor tracking
Podcast discovery, show and episode research, chart monitoring, audio catalog enrichment
Startup research, review analysis, company enrichment
Crypto market research, coin profile enrichment, trend monitoring, category tables, chains, exchanges, NFTs, unlocks, treasuries, and news workflows
Quote, historical price, market summary, screener, calendar, news, and financial research workflows
Use cases
Use Crawlora as an API for structured web data in dashboards, AI agents, CRMs, research workflows, SEO tools, and internal analytics.
Track keyword rankings, result URLs, snippets, competitor visibility, Google Trends demand signals, and search result changes across locations and languages.
Build local lead lists, enrich business profiles, normalize addresses, and monitor categories, ratings, and place data.
Analyze app reviews, ratings, version history, competitors, and user feedback from app stores.
Track TikTok videos, creators, hashtags, music, comments, trend signals, and public Top Ads creative data.
Research streaming titles, providers, offers, seasons, episodes, and catalog availability.
Collect channel, video, comment, caption, transcript, playlist, and Shorts data for research and AI workflows.
Monitor Shopify storefront catalogs, product search, marketplace listings, shop catalogs, pricing, variants, reviews, and competitive product data.
Collect stays, room details, destination listings, availability hints, public reviews, and lodging data.
Monitor property search results, autocomplete regions, listing status, and public home detail data.
Track public reviews, ratings, competitors, and customer feedback across Trustpilot, travel, app store, and product sources.
Research Spotify catalog, playlists, tracks, artists, albums, charts, and country popularity signals.
Collect public CoinGecko markets, coin profiles, chart analysis, categories, chains, exchanges, NFTs, token unlocks, treasury rows, and news cards for research workflows.
Collect quotes, historical prices, market summaries, screeners, calendars, company modules, news, and public finance page context.
Research podcast shows, episodes, charts, playlists, tracks, and public audio catalog data.
Build or buy
Crawlora is designed for teams that want to spend less time maintaining scraping infrastructure and more time building products, dashboards, research workflows, and AI data pipelines.
| In-house scraping stack | Crawlora |
|---|---|
| Proxy procurement and testing | Managed proxy routing and execution paths |
| Playwright/Puppeteer cluster maintenance | Browser-backed rendering and managed browser capacity |
| Custom parsers for every platform | Platform-specific normalized JSON schemas |
| Retry queues and failure handling | Built-in retries and transparent response context |
| Usage metering and billing | API-key usage tracking and credit-based pricing |
| Docs and test harnesses | Endpoint docs and Playground testing |
| Ongoing maintenance burden | API-first integration |
Alternatives
Evaluate Crawlora against generic scraping APIs, SERP APIs, actor marketplaces, AI web extraction tools, browser automation infrastructure, and building in-house.
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Developer experience
The examples below use the production docs API base URL configured for this site and the generated catalog path for Google Search: POST /google/search.
curl -X POST "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/google/search" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"keyword": "best CRM software",
"country": "us",
"language": "en"
}'const response = await fetch("https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/google/search", {
method: "POST",
headers: {
"x-api-key": process.env.CRAWLORA_API_KEY || "",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({
keyword: "best CRM software",
country: "us",
language: "en",
}),
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);import os
import requests
response = requests.post(
"https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/google/search",
headers={
"x-api-key": os.environ["CRAWLORA_API_KEY"],
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
json={
"keyword": "best CRM software",
"country": "us",
"language": "en",
},
)
print(response.json())package main
import (
"bytes"
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"net/http"
"os"
)
func main() {
payload := map[string]string{
"keyword": "best CRM software",
"country": "us",
"language": "en",
}
body, _ := json.Marshal(payload)
req, _ := http.NewRequest(
"POST",
"https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/google/search",
bytes.NewReader(body),
)
req.Header.Set("x-api-key", os.Getenv("CRAWLORA_API_KEY"))
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
defer resp.Body.Close()
fmt.Println(resp.Status)
}Documented responses
These samples mirror the generated API documentation for representative endpoints. Use the linked docs pages for current parameters, response notes, and failure behavior.
{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"result": [
{
"position": 1,
"title": "ChatGPT",
"website_name": "ChatGPT",
"icon": "",
"link": "https://chatgpt.com/",
"Snippet": "ChatGPT helps you get answers and create."
}
]
}
}{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"keyword": "electric vehicles",
"interest_over_time": [
{
"time": "2026-05-01",
"value": 84
}
],
"related_queries": [],
"related_topics": []
}
}{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": [
{
"url": "https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJs3cv0KuvEmsRHcXYwNJ6GU0",
"name": "Primi Italian",
"place_id": "ChIJs3cv0KuvEmsRHcXYwNJ6GU0",
"category": ["italian_restaurant"],
"address": "168 Clarence St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia",
"latitude": -33.8701437,
"longitude": 151.2056158
}
]
}{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": [
{
"display_name": "1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, USA",
"lat": "37.4220604",
"lon": "-122.0840897",
"type": "commercial",
"importance": 0.7
}
]
}{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"asin": "B0DGJ736JM",
"title": "Apple Watch SE (2nd Gen) [GPS 40mm]",
"link": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DGJ736JM/",
"rating": 4.4,
"review_count": 1055,
"price": 189
}
}{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"location": "New York, NY",
"page": 1,
"results": [
{
"id": "964337233639659839",
"title": "Cozy & Calm Studio",
"url": "https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/964337233639659839",
"price": 717,
"rating": 4.47,
"review_count": 96
}
]
}
}{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"geo_id": 294217,
"type": "hotel",
"results": [
{
"id": "113311",
"title": "Example Hotel",
"rating": 4.5,
"review_count": 1517,
"address": "Example public address"
}
]
}
}{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"location": "Seattle, WA",
"page": 1,
"results": [
{
"zpid": "48749425",
"address": "2114 Bigelow Ave N",
"price": 1200000,
"beds": 3,
"baths": 2.5
}
]
}
}{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": [
{
"id": "6448311069",
"title": "ChatGPT",
"developer": "OpenAI",
"score": 4.9,
"url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chatgpt/id6448311069"
}
]
}{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"symbol": "AAPL",
"regular_market_price": 189.87,
"currency": "USD",
"market_state": "REGULAR",
"short_name": "Apple Inc."
}
}{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"searchTerm": "chatgpt",
"offset": 0,
"limit": 30,
"shows": [
{
"uri": "spotify:show:example",
"type": "Podcast",
"title": "Example Show",
"publisher": "Example Publisher",
"externalUrl": "https://open.spotify.com/show/example"
}
],
"episodes": []
}
}Pricing
Start testing with the free tier, then scale into higher credit volumes as your data workflows grow. Crawlora's pricing is designed around API usage, rate limits, daily caps, and endpoint credit costs.
Start with a free tier for small experiments and early validation.
2,000 monthly credits
Move into paid credit pools, higher daily credits, and higher request-per-minute limits.
100,000 Growth credits/month
Scale into larger credit volumes, no daily cap, and lower included credit cost.
5,000,000 Enterprise credits/month
Responsible use
Crawlora is built for structured access to public web data. Customers are responsible for using Crawlora in compliance with applicable laws, third-party rights, and target-site rules. Crawlora provides rate limits, API-key usage controls, and transparent failure behavior to support responsible integrations.
FAQ
Answers for developers evaluating Crawlora as a structured scraping API for public web data workflows.
A web scraping API is a hosted API that helps developers collect web data without maintaining the entire scraping stack themselves. Instead of managing proxies, browsers, retries, parsers, and scaling infrastructure, developers call an API endpoint and receive structured output.
Crawlora focuses on platform-specific structured APIs. Instead of only returning raw HTML from arbitrary URLs, Crawlora provides documented endpoints and normalized JSON for platforms such as search engines, maps, social platforms, app stores, audio and podcast platforms, marketplaces, reviews, and finance sources.
Yes. Crawlora supports browser-backed execution for workflows that require JavaScript rendering. This helps teams avoid maintaining their own browser cluster for dynamic pages.
Crawlora includes managed proxy routing as part of its execution layer. Developers do not need to directly buy, rotate, test, and monitor proxy pools for supported endpoints.
Crawlora uses challenge-aware execution and transparent failure handling for supported endpoints. When an upstream page is blocked, challenged, or unusable, Crawlora aims to return clear response context instead of silently returning bad data.
Crawlora supports structured public web data across search, maps, travel, hospitality, property, social, video, music, podcasts, marketplaces, app stores, product research, reviews, business intelligence, and finance-related sources. Visit the API documentation for the current endpoint catalog. Browse Docs.
Crawlora uses credit-based pricing. Different endpoints may consume different credits based on complexity. Visit pricing for current plans, included credits, rate limits, daily caps, and overage details. View Pricing.
Yes. Crawlora offers a free tier for testing. Check pricing for current limits. Check current limits.
Yes. Crawlora provides agent-native structured web data that is easier for AI agents, research agents, and automation workflows to consume than raw HTML. Crawlora also exposes hosted MCP tooling for supported workflows.
For many supported sources, Crawlora can replace custom scraping infrastructure. For unsupported sources or highly custom workflows, teams may still use their own scraper alongside Crawlora.
Explore Crawlora's API catalog, test requests in the Playground, and connect production-ready public web data workflows to your application.