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ZenRows

ZenRows is a Spanish web scraping platform headquartered in Madrid that lets developers collect public web data at scale without managing proxies, browsers, or CAPTCHAs. A single API key unlocks four products against a shared 55M+ residential IP pool across 190+ countries: the Universal Scraper API (HTTP scrape with JS rendering, anti-bot bypass, screenshots, CSS/AI extraction, and PDF/markdown output), the Scraping Browser (cloud Playwright/Puppeteer/CDP browser over WebSocket), Residential Proxies (HTTP/SOCKS5 with sticky sessions and country targeting), and a set of vertical Scraper APIs for Amazon, Google, Walmart, Zillow, and Idealista. ZenRows also ships first-party Python, Node.js, and Go SDKs, a Scrapy middleware, deep integrations across Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, Scrapy, LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI Agents SDK, Zapier, n8n, Make, Pipedream, Node-RED, MuleSoft, Clay, and an official MCP server (hosted at https://mcp.zenrows.com/mcp and as @zenrows/mcp on npm) exposing scrape and 30+ browser automation tools to AI agents.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles ZenRows the way a machine reads it — 19 machine-readable artifacts across 6 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 — ZenRows scores 60.7/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 56/100 (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 — 60.7/100 · strong
Contract Quality 17.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.6 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 56/100 · 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 8 / 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 ZenRows

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for ZenRows. 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 6

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.

ZenRows Scraping Browser

Cloud headless browser exposed over WebSocket at wss://browser.zenrows.com?apikey=KEY, compatible with Playwright, Puppeteer, and the underlying Chrome DevTools Protocol. Each s...

ZenRows Residential Proxies

HTTP and SOCKS5 residential proxy network with 55M+ IPs across 190+ countries, username/password authentication, country and world-region targeting (e.g. country-es for Spain), ...

ZenRows Scraper APIs

Vertical, structured-data scraper endpoints for major commerce and real-estate sites, sharing the api.zenrows.com authentication and credit model. Covers Amazon (ASIN lookup, di...

ZenRows MCP Server

Official ZenRows Model Context Protocol server that exposes the scraping platform to AI assistants. Available as a remote hosted server at https://mcp.zenrows.com/mcp with OAuth...

ZenRows SDKs

First-party SDKs that wrap the Universal Scraper API and Residential Proxies with automatic retries, exponential backoff, concurrency helpers, and ergonomic clients. Official SD...

ZenRows Universal Scraper API

Scrape any URL with anti-bot bypass and optional rendering.

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).

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.

Zenrows Plans Pricing

8 plans

PLANS

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.

Zenrows Rate Limits

12 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.

Zenrows Context

0 classes · 19 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.

ZenRows API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

ZenRows API Rules

5 rules · 1 errors · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

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.

ZenRows Universal Scraper API Response

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

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.

Zenrows Scrape Request Structure

24 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 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.

Zenrows Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Zenrows Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · 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.

Zenrows Agentic Access

2 operations · 1 acting

2 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for ZenRows — 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.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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