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ScrapingAnt

ScrapingAnt is a web-data infrastructure platform operated by DATAANT that puts headless Chrome rendering, a rotating pool of 3M+ residential and datacenter proxies, CAPTCHA avoidance and AI-powered extraction behind a single HTTP API. One request returns a fully JavaScript-rendered page as raw HTML, as LLM-ready Markdown, as an extended JSON envelope carrying cookies, headers, XHRs and iframes, or as structured JSON described in plain English. A hosted, remote MCP server exposes three of those formats as native tools to Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline and VS Code, so an AI agent gets live web access without running a browser locally. Billing is metered in API credits with a permanently free 10,000-credit monthly tier; standalone rotating proxies are sold separately by bandwidth.

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 ScrapingAnt the way a machine reads it — 14 machine-readable artifacts across 2 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 — ScrapingAnt scores 52.6/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 35/100 (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. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Composite quality — 52.6/100 · developing
Contract Quality 14.3 / 25
Access Clarity 14.5 / 20
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
ScrapingAnt Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile ScrapingAnt

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for ScrapingAnt. 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 4

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.

ScrapingAnt

ScrapingAnt is a web scraping API service that handles proxy rotation, headless browsers, and CAPTCHA solving for reliable web data extraction.

ScrapingAnt Scraping API

The ScrapingAnt web scraping endpoint. GET/POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE /v2/general renders a target URL in headless Chrome behind rotating proxies and returns the page HTML; a non-GET...

ScrapingAnt Usage API

Account credit metering for ScrapingAnt. GET /v2/usage returns the current plan name, subscription period, total plan credits and remaining credits - the only way to observe bud...

ScrapingAnt MCP Server

First-party hosted remote MCP server at https://api.scrapingant.com/mcp/ exposing get_web_page_html, get_web_page_markdown and get_web_page_text to MCP clients over streamable H...

Open Collections 3

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).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

ScrapingAnt Scraping API

OPEN COLLECTION

ScrapingAnt

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

ScrapingAnt MCP Server

ScrapingAnt operates a first-party hosted MCP server that gives an AI agent live web access through the same headless-Chrome cluster and rotating proxy pool that backs the /v2/g...

MCP SERVER

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 things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.

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.

Scrapingant 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.

Security Posture 2

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.

Scrapingant Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Scrapingant Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

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.

Scrapingant Agentic Access

6 operations · 4 acting

6 operations · 4 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for ScrapingAnt — 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.

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of ScrapingAnt, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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