ScrapingBee is a web scraping API that delivers web data directly to you, with no infrastructure management required. Everything from JavaScript rendering and proxy rotation to retries, geolocation, and overcoming blocks happens behind a single API call. This lets developers focus on building products, data pipelines, and AI workflows instead of managing proxy pools, headless browsers, or anti-bot systems.
For teams and solo developers, this means faster iteration and less time lost to technical hurdles. ScrapingBee is designed to be approachable from day one, with detailed documentation and responsive support. Whether you need to scrape a single page or power a large-scale data pipeline, the platform adapts to your needs and grows with your ambitions.
More than 4,500 developers rely on ScrapingBee, which now handles around 2 billion requests each month, all managed by a team of just sixteen. That is 125 million requests per employee.
With plans starting at $49 a month, there’s never any infrastructure for you to set up or maintain. That’s the point: you simply make a request, get the page back, and let ScrapingBee handle everything in between.
This simplicity lowers the barrier to entry for startups and enables established companies to scale without hiring additional ops or scraping specialists. The pricing model is transparent, so you can predict your costs as your needs evolve. ScrapingBee aims to keep the journey from idea to execution as frictionless as possible.
Building on personal experience leads to quality and trust
ScrapingBee was founded in France in 2019 by Pierre de Wulf and Kevin Sahin, two developers who had done enough scraping to know which parts nobody enjoys. The product grew directly out of that, and the pitch has stayed the same since the beginning: you should not have to become a scraping specialist to get a page back.
The founders’ hands-on experience shaped a tool that solves real-world pain points, and their focus on doing one thing well has resonated with the developer community. By staying true to their mission, they have created a product that performs exceptionally and earns trust.
The company stayed small on purpose while the request volume grew, and it built a reputation among developers that no marketing budget could buy without results. It joined the Source ecosystem through an acquisition in 2025, chosen for its technical capabilities and even greater future potential.
With the acquisition, ScrapingBee brought a well-built and widely respected tool for straightforward data access, perfect for developers who want to focus on their own projects rather than troubleshooting scraping headaches. Now led by Karolis Stasiulevičius, the company remains true to its original direction and purpose.
Public web data now runs through everyday operations, from pricing and competitor monitoring to AI pipelines. But the teams building those systems shouldn't have to spend their time fighting issues with proxies, browsers, or anti-bot systems. That's the work ScrapingBee takes on, so developers can focus on shipping their product instead of maintaining a scraper.
Karolis Stasiulevičius, CEO of ScrapingBee.
Web access tool for the developer’s toolkit
Some teams and developers want data access infrastructure that they can work with and customize themselves. ScrapingBee is built for those who don’t, but still depend on reliable data access.
Anyone who’s tried the do-it-yourself route knows the drill: Puppeteer or Playwright for rendering, a patchwork of proxy providers, something to tackle CAPTCHAs, your own retry logic, and endless maintenance as target sites change and break. ScrapingBee offers to replace it all with a simple API access to the web.
Despite this simplicity, ScrapingBee has serious capacity under the hood. It can handle up to 16,000 requests a minute with up to 800 concurrent connections, achieving about a 99% success rate across JavaScript-heavy and protected targets.
There are dedicated endpoints for search and e-commerce, AI-powered extraction, batch and scheduled crawling, and even a command-line tool with a REPL for those who prefer testing in a terminal rather than a browser tab.
Web access capabilities for developers ready to build
What ScrapingBee really takes out of the equation is the need for deep scraping expertise. Developers don’t have to spend time and resources acquiring technical know-how to solve problems they didn't set out to solve. They can go ahead and build complex, data-powered projects that they care about.
By making data access simple, ScrapingBee helps level the playing field for small teams and solo builders. It empowers people to act on their ideas, removing the technical barriers from their way.
AI agent developers are a good example. Their agents need to read the live web constantly, and for the developer, almost none of that is the interesting part. Web access is a dependency, and it has to work reliably so the developer can focus on what makes their product theirs. ScrapingBee's MCP server handles that dependency.
That's also why reliability and usability matter as much as the volume a service can handle. A service that breaks in ways you have to investigate hasn't removed the problem. A service that behaves predictably, explains its failures, and documents itself well can be trusted by someone who never plans to look inside it. That peace of mind is why developers love ScrapingBee. It lets a small team ship a product that depends on web data without building a data team to support it.
ScrapingBee, part of the Source ecosystem.
