Structured web scraping API

Web Scraping API for Structured Public Web Data

Crawlora is a web scraping API for developers who need structured public web data from complex sources. Send API 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.

Platform-specific APIs for search, maps, social, marketplaces, app stores, reviews, and finance
Managed proxy routing, browser-backed rendering, retry logic, and challenge-aware execution
Documented schemas, Playground testing, API-key usage tracking, and credit-based pricing

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Example request

POST

/google/search

Normalized JSON

POST https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/google/search
x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "keyword": "best project management software",
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en"
}

Example based on the Google Search API docs. Open the Google Search docs for the latest parameters, response fields, credit cost, and error behavior.

107

Documented operations in the public API catalog

Multiple platform APIs

Search, maps, social, marketplaces, app stores, reviews, and finance

17 MCP-ready tools

Structured endpoints for AI-agent and automation workflows

The problem

Web scraping infrastructure is harder than it looks

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.

Proxy management

Buying proxies is not enough. Teams still need routing logic, health checks, session behavior, geotargeting, and fallback rules.

JavaScript rendering

Many modern pages depend on client-side rendering, dynamic requests, and browser-only behavior.

Parser maintenance

HTML changes break selectors. Normalized JSON schemas reduce downstream cleanup and rework.

Retry and failure handling

Production systems need clear failure states, retry paths, request IDs, and debuggable responses.

Scaling and rate limits

Scraping at scale requires concurrency control, queueing, usage limits, and cost visibility.

Developer experience

Teams need docs, examples, Playground testing, API keys, and predictable response contracts.

API workflow

One API layer for collection, rendering, extraction, and delivery

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.

Request -> Execution -> JSON -> Product

01
Send request
02
Crawlora executes
03
Receive structured JSON
04
Build your product

Production features

Built for production web data workflows

Crawlora reduces the engineering burden of maintaining proxies, browser clusters, parsers, retry logic, rate limits, and scraping infrastructure for supported public web data sources.

Managed proxy routing

Crawlora handles proxy-aware execution so your team does not have to build and maintain proxy routing, testing, and fallback infrastructure.

Browser-backed rendering

Use browser execution for dynamic pages that require JavaScript rendering instead of maintaining your own Playwright or Puppeteer cluster.

Browser cluster capacity

Crawlora can run browser-backed workloads through managed browser capacity for pages that need more than basic HTTP fetching.

Challenge-aware execution

Crawlora detects blocked, challenged, or unusable upstream responses and returns transparent failure context instead of silently returning bad data.

Automatic retry logic

Built-in retry and fallback behavior reduces transient failures and keeps your integration simpler.

Normalized JSON schemas

Platform-specific endpoints return structured responses so your application can work with clean fields instead of brittle HTML parsing.

Usage tracking and credits

Track request volume, credits, rate limits, and API-key usage without building your own metering layer.

Developer-first docs

Explore endpoints, request bodies, response examples, credit costs, and Playground tests from the documentation.

Feature deep dives

Explore Crawlora's scraping infrastructure by capability

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.

Managed Proxy Routing for Web Scraping APIs

Crawlora handles managed proxy routing for supported scraping APIs, helping developers avoid proxy pool maintenance, routing logic, health checks, retries, and scaling complexity.

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Browser Rendering for JavaScript-Heavy Web Data

Use Crawlora browser-backed rendering for JavaScript-heavy public web data workflows without maintaining your own Playwright or Puppeteer infrastructure.

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Managed Browser Cluster for Scalable Web Scraping

Crawlora provides managed browser capacity for supported scraping APIs, helping teams avoid running their own distributed browser cluster for dynamic public web data.

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Anti-Bot Resilience for Public Web Data Workflows

Crawlora helps supported public web data workflows handle common scraping failure modes with managed execution, retries, challenge awareness, and transparent response context.

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Challenge-Aware Scraping API Execution

Crawlora 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.

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Retry and Fallback Logic for Reliable Scraping APIs

Crawlora reduces transient scraping failures with retry and fallback logic for supported endpoints, helping developers build more reliable structured web data workflows.

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Usage Tracking and Credit-Based Billing for Scraping APIs

Crawlora provides API-key usage tracking, credit-based pricing, rate limits, and plan controls for structured web scraping API workflows.

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Scalable Web Scraping API Infrastructure

Crawlora provides scalable web scraping API infrastructure for structured public web data workflows, combining proxy-aware execution, browser rendering, retries, usage controls, and normalized JSON.

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Platform coverage

Structured APIs for high-value public web sources

Crawlora focuses on platform-specific APIs where structured data matters more than raw HTML. Start with the Google Search API, Google Maps API, TikTok API, YouTube API, App Store API, Google Play API, marketplace APIs, and finance data endpoints.

Search

Google Search Bing Brave

SERP monitoring, keyword research, competitive intelligence

Maps and local

Google Maps

Local lead generation, place enrichment, business discovery

Social and video

TikTok YouTube Instagram

Creator research, comments, transcripts, trend analysis, campaign monitoring

Marketplaces

Amazon eBay

Product monitoring, pricing research, marketplace intelligence

App stores

Apple App Store Google Play

App review analysis, ASO research, competitor tracking

Business and product intelligence

Startup research, review analysis, company enrichment

Finance

Google Finance

Market data enrichment and financial research workflows

Use cases

What you can build with Crawlora

Use Crawlora as an API for structured web data in dashboards, AI agents, CRMs, research workflows, SEO tools, and internal analytics.

SERP monitoring

Track keyword rankings, organic results, related queries, and search result changes across locations and languages.

Use case Google Search API

Local business data

Build local lead lists, enrich business profiles, and monitor categories, ratings, and place data.

Use case Google Maps API

App review intelligence

Analyze app reviews, ratings, version history, competitors, and user feedback from app stores.

Use case App Store API Google Play API

Creator and social research

Track TikTok videos, creators, hashtags, music, comments, and trend signals.

Use case TikTok API

YouTube research workflows

Collect channel, video, comment, caption, transcript, playlist, and Shorts data for research and AI workflows.

Use case YouTube API

E-commerce monitoring

Monitor product pages, marketplace listings, pricing, reviews, and competitive product data.

Use case Amazon API

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Build or buy

Why use a web scraping API instead of building everything in-house?

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

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Alternatives

Compare Crawlora with scraping API alternatives

Evaluate Crawlora against generic scraping APIs, SERP APIs, actor marketplaces, AI web extraction tools, browser automation infrastructure, and building in-house.

Crawlora vs ScraperAPI

Compare Crawlora's structured platform APIs with a generic scraping API focused on proxy/headless-browser complexity.

Crawlora vs Bright Data

Compare Crawlora's developer-first API catalog with a broad enterprise data collection and proxy platform.

Crawlora vs Apify

Compare Crawlora's direct API endpoints with Apify's actor marketplace and automation platform.

Crawlora vs Firecrawl

Compare Crawlora's structured platform APIs with Firecrawl's AI-native scrape, crawl, map, and extraction workflows.

Crawlora vs Oxylabs

Compare Crawlora's API catalog with Oxylabs' enterprise proxy, scraping, and web unblocker infrastructure.

Crawlora vs ScrapingBee

Compare Crawlora's platform-specific JSON APIs with ScrapingBee's generic scraping API for proxy and browser handling.

Crawlora vs SerpApi

Compare Crawlora's multi-platform API coverage with a mature SERP-focused API provider.

Crawlora vs Browserless

Compare Crawlora's structured data APIs with hosted browser automation infrastructure.

Crawlora vs Building In-House

Compare using Crawlora against building and maintaining your own scraping stack.

Developer experience

Developer-friendly from first request to production

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.

Show cURL example+

cURL

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"
  }'

Show TypeScript example+

TypeScript

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);

Show Python example+

Python

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())

Show Go example+

Go

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

Response samples from Swagger-backed docs

These samples mirror the generated API documentation for representative endpoints. Use the linked docs pages for current parameters, response notes, and failure behavior.

Google Search

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Show Google Search response+

Google Search response sample

{
  "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."
      }
    ]
  }
}

Google Maps Search

View docs

Show Google Maps Search response+

Google Maps Search response sample

{
  "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
    }
  ]
}

Amazon Product

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Show Amazon Product response+

Amazon Product response sample

{
  "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
  }
}

App Store Search

View docs

Show App Store Search response+

App Store Search response sample

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "6448311069",
      "title": "ChatGPT",
      "developer": "OpenAI",
      "score": 4.9,
      "url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chatgpt/id6448311069"
    }
  ]
}

Pricing

Credit-based pricing that scales with usage

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.

Free / testing

Start with a free tier for small experiments and early validation.

2,000 monthly credits

Starter or Growth / production workloads

Move into paid credit pools, higher daily credits, and higher request-per-minute limits.

100,000 Growth credits/month

Business or Enterprise / higher-volume teams

Scale into larger credit volumes, no daily cap, and lower included credit cost.

5,000,000 Enterprise credits/month

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Responsible use

Designed for responsible public web data workflows

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.

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FAQ

Web scraping API FAQ

Answers for developers evaluating Crawlora as a structured scraping API for public web data workflows.

What is a web scraping API?+

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.

How is Crawlora different from a generic scraping API?+

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, marketplaces, reviews, and finance sources.

Does Crawlora support JavaScript rendering?+

Yes. Crawlora supports browser-backed execution for workflows that require JavaScript rendering. This helps teams avoid maintaining their own browser cluster for dynamic pages.

Does Crawlora handle proxies?+

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.

Does Crawlora solve CAPTCHAs?+

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.

What kind of data can I collect?+

Crawlora supports structured public web data across search, maps, social, video, marketplaces, app stores, product research, reviews, business intelligence, and finance-related sources. Visit the API documentation for the current endpoint catalog. Browse Docs.

How does pricing work?+

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.

Can I test before paying?+

Yes. Crawlora offers a free tier for testing. Check pricing for current limits. Check current limits.

Is Crawlora suitable for AI agents?+

Yes. Crawlora can provide structured web data that is easier for AI agents, research agents, and automation workflows to consume than raw HTML. Crawlora also exposes MCP-ready tooling for supported workflows.

Do I still need my own scraper?+

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.

Start building

Start building with structured web data

Explore Crawlora's API catalog, test requests in the Playground, and connect production-ready public web data workflows to your application.

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