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Scrapfly

Scrapfly is a web scraping API platform that enables effortless collection of web data with battle-tested APIs that scale. It provides capabilities for scraping web pages, capturing screenshots, and extracting structured data with AI assistance to handle anti-bot measures and JavaScript rendering. One API key unlocks five APIs: Web Scraping (anti-bot unblocker), Cloud Browser (CDP), Screenshot, Extraction, and Crawler. Scrapfly operates globally with proxies across 190+ countries.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Scrapfly the way a machine reads it — 24 machine-readable artifacts across 7 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Scrapfly scores 51.5/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 51.5/100 · developing
Contract Quality 17.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.6 / 20
Commercial Clarity 9.5 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Scrapfly

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Scrapfly. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 7

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Scrapfly Screenshot API

Capture screenshots of web pages with full-page or element-specific capture using CSS selectors. Supports JavaScript rendering, viewport configuration, and screenshot of dynamic...

Scrapfly Extraction API

AI-powered structured data extraction from HTML content. Supports template-based extraction, LLM prompt-driven extraction, and auto-extraction using predefined models for common...

Scrapfly Crawler API

Web crawling API (currently in early access) that enables crawling entire websites with advanced configuration for depth control and content filtering. Outputs in WARC format fo...

Scrapfly Cloud Browser API

Headless browser automation API (currently in beta) compatible with Playwright, Puppeteer, and Selenium frameworks. Enables complex browser interactions, JavaScript execution, a...

Scrapfly SDKs

Official SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, and Scrapy with full feature coverage across every language including scrape, screenshot, extract, and crawl capabilities.

Scrapfly Scraping API

The Scraping API from Scrapfly — 1 operation(s) for scraping.

Scrapfly Screenshots API

The Screenshots API from Scrapfly — 1 operation(s) for screenshots.

Scroll within the panel for all 7 ·

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Scrapfly Scrape API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Scrapfly Rate Limits

7 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Scrapfly Context

0 classes · 15 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Scrapfly API Rules

4 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Scrapfly API Rules

9 rules · 3 errors · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Scrapfly Scrape Response

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ScrapeRequest

19 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ScrapeResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 2

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Scrapfly Scrape Request Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Scrapfly Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 1

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Scrapfly Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Scrapfly Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Scrapfly Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Scrapfly Agentic Access

3 operations · 1 acting

3 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Scrapfly — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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