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Zyte

Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub, the company behind the Scrapy framework) is a web data extraction platform. Its flagship Zyte API is a single POST endpoint that fetches any URL through an automatic anti-ban network, optionally rendering it in a browser, running interaction actions, capturing network traffic and screenshots, and returning AI-extracted structured data for products, articles, job postings, forum threads and search results. Alongside it Zyte runs Scrapy Cloud, a hosted platform for deploying and scheduling Scrapy spiders, a Stats API for usage and spend reporting, and the sunsetting Smart Proxy Manager. Zyte's agent strategy is Agent Skills rather than MCP: it publishes an official 15-skill "Agentic Web Data" plugin for Claude Code, Codex CLI and GitHub Copilot CLI.

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 Zyte the way a machine reads it — 10 machine-readable artifacts across 3 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 — Zyte scores 56.7/100 (strong), 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
Zyte Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile Zyte

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Zyte. 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 3

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.

Zyte API

A single POST /extract operation that retrieves any public URL through Zyte's automatic ban-avoidance network and returns any combination of raw HTTP body, browser-rendered HTML...

Zyte API Stats API

Read recorded Zyte API usage — request volume, cost, response times and status codes — filtered and grouped by domain, API key label, response code, requested feature, extractio...

Scrapy Cloud API

The HTTP API for Scrapy Cloud, Zyte's hosted platform for running Scrapy spiders. Schedule, stop, update and delete jobs; list and count queued work; read job metadata, logs, re...

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.

Zyte Plans Pricing

5 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.

Zyte Rate Limits

4 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.

Zyte Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 4

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.

Zyte Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Zyte Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Zyte Trust Center

ISO 27001

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for Zyte — 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 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Zyte, 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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