Best Scraping APIs

Best Scraping APIs compared. Indie picks from founders building right now, plus the established options.

Indie picks 1

Free URL & File to Markdown Conversion API (11 formats)

Apify is a platform for building, running, and scaling web scrapers.

Bright Data provides proxies and web scraping APIs for large data collection.

Crawl4AI is an open source crawler that outputs clean markdown for LLMs.

Firecrawl turns websites into clean markdown and structured data for LLMs.

Jina AI Reader converts any URL into LLM ready markdown content.

ScraperAPI handles proxies, browsers, and captchas for web scraping at scale.

ScrapingBee is a web scraping API that handles proxies and headless browsers.

Zyte offers web scraping APIs and tools for automated data extraction.