Scrape.do review

Scrape.do is a hosted web scraping API, not a scraping library or self-hosted server. Your application sends requests to its API; Scrape.do handles proxy rotation, headers, CAPTCHA and WAF challenges, and JavaScript rendering. The response is scraped page data, so the service sits between your code and the target website.

The product has two API paths. The general Web Scraping API retrieves data from a site with one request. Ready Scraper APIs are pre-built endpoints for supported sites and return parsed JSON, avoiding HTML selectors in your application. The homepage also lists localization, pagination and filters for Ready APIs.

That setup can reduce the browser and proxy infrastructure your team operates, but it makes the scraping path depend on a hosted service. Geo-targeting is listed for 160+ countries. The vendor describes the data as public web data; teams should check target-site terms and their own compliance requirements before collecting it.

The integration surface is an HTTP API: Scrape.do says the Web Scraping API retrieves data with one request, and a Ready Scraper API uses one HTTP call to return parsed JSON. The homepage lists Documentation and a Dashboard. It does not prescribe an application architecture, so a team can keep the vendor call behind its own scraper interface and normalize returned data in its existing pipeline.

The homepage names no particular programming language, language-specific SDK, CLI, webhook, or plugin. Before choosing a stack, check the vendor's documentation for SDK support in your language and for authentication, request parameters, response formats, retries, and error handling. The homepage lists JavaScript rendering and interactions, automatic proxy rotation, CAPTCHA handling, header and user-agent rotation, and geo-targeting as features.

Ready APIs reduce selector work for supported targets, but the team still needs to map returned JSON into its own schema and handle failures. Keep the integration surface narrow so you can change providers or switch endpoint types without spreading Scrape.do-specific response handling through the codebase.

Scrape.do has a free plan at $0 per month with 1,000 successful API credits, five concurrent requests, and all Scrape.do features. The Hobby plan costs $29 per month for 250,000 credits and 10 concurrent requests; its listed rate is $0.11 per 1,000 credits. Pro is $99 per month for 1,250,000 credits and 50 concurrent requests, with a listed rate of $0.08 per 1,000.

Business costs $249 per month for 3,500,000 credits and 100 concurrent requests; Advanced costs $699 for 10,000,000 credits and 200 concurrent requests. The pricing page lists per-1,000-credit rates of $0.07 for Business and $0.06 for Advanced. Business adds premium residential and mobile proxies, dedicated support, and team management. Advanced adds custom WAF bypass strategies, a custom SLA, and a dedicated Slack channel. Enterprise pricing is custom, with unlimited successful credits and concurrent requests listed.

Paid plans are listed as monthly billed; annual pricing is not published. Extra-credit pricing is also not published, so ask how overages work before relying on a plan's monthly allowance. Budget against successful credits and concurrency, not just the headline subscription price.

Scrape.do's scraping APIs are presented as hosted services. The homepage separately lists Scrapeman as free and open source; it does not identify that tool as the API itself. The vendor does not publish a self-hosting option for Scrape.do's APIs, and the homepage does not name an open-source license for Scrapeman. Treat the API as a hosted dependency unless the vendor confirms otherwise.

The vendor does not publish data-export details on the homepage. Ask what request and response data it retains, how you can retrieve it, and what happens when an account closes. The practical migration path depends on how much Scrape.do-specific behavior your code adopts: keep requests behind an internal interface and store results in your own systems to make provider changes easier. Ready API JSON may require more remapping than raw-page workflows if a replacement returns a different schema.

Plan capacity around the concurrency cap and successful-credit allowance on your tier. The listed plans range from five concurrent requests on Free to 200 on Advanced; Enterprise lists unlimited concurrency. The homepage claims a 99.98% success rate, but teams should confirm how success is measured and whether that figure applies to their targets. Advanced includes a custom SLA; the other listed tiers do not advertise one.

One Reddit thread describes Scrape.do as operating at large scale, while a user comparing scraping services called it a second favorite but said it was more annoying to use. That is a useful warning to evaluate integration friction, not a reliability guarantee. The vendor's homepage lists CAPTCHA and WAF handling, but target sites can change their defenses; test your important sites and build retries, monitoring, and failure handling into your own pipeline.

Before production, ask about data retention, security controls, compliance commitments, and request-level rate limits. Concurrency caps are published, but a per-second rate limit is not. Confirm how credits are consumed for your endpoint and target mix.