Enterprise-Grade Web Scraping

Web Scraping API

Extract and parse content from any URL with AI-optimized formatting, perfect for LLMs and intelligent applications

Browser rendering • CSS selectors • JavaScript injection • Customizable output formats

Try It Now

Test the Web Scraping API with your own URLs

Scrape Configuration

Configure web scraping with full control

Enter your API key or get one from settings

The URL to scrape content from

Choose the format for the scraped content

Quick Options

Force fresh retrieval

Advanced Settings

Results

Scrape results and code examples

Submit a request to see scraped content

WebSearchAPI.ai Scrape API - Extract content with full control

Core Capabilities

Everything you need for intelligent content extraction

Browser Rendering

Full browser engine for JavaScript-heavy websites with dynamic content loading. Handles SPAs and complex web applications.

X-Engine: browser
JavaScript Support

Precise Selection

Target specific elements with CSS selectors. Focus on what matters and exclude noise like headers, ads, and footers.

X-Target-Selector
X-Remove-Selector

Format Control

Choose your output format: Markdown, HTML, plain text, or screenshots. Optimized for downstream AI processing.

Markdown
HTML
Screenshots

Image Intelligence

Extract and summarize images with AI-generated alt text for accessibility and better context understanding.

X-With-Generated-Alt
Image Summaries

Link Extraction

Gather all links from a page with unique URL summaries. Perfect for building knowledge graphs and site maps.

X-With-Links-Summary
URL Mapping

Privacy First

GDPR compliant with EU infrastructure option. Control caching, tracking, and use custom proxies for enhanced privacy.

EU Region
No-Cache
DNT Support

Advanced Features

Professional tools for complex extraction scenarios

JavaScript Injection

Execute preprocessing scripts to manipulate DOM before extraction

Wait Selectors

Wait for specific elements to load before content extraction

Custom Headers

Set cookies, user agents, and locale for authenticated content

Token Budget

Control response size with token limits for LLM optimization

Proxy Support

Use custom or location-based proxies for geo-restricted content

Shadow DOM

Extract content from Shadow DOM roots in modern web apps

Iframe Content

Include embedded iframe content in extraction results

AI-Enhanced Processing

Advanced ML models for complex HTML-to-Markdown conversion

Perfect For

Trusted by developers and businesses worldwide

AI & Language Models

Optimize content for LLM consumption

RAG Applications

Extract clean, structured content for retrieval-augmented generation systems with token-optimized output.

Token budget control
Markdown formatting

Knowledge Base Building

Build comprehensive knowledge bases by extracting and indexing content from documentation sites.

Link graph extraction
Structured metadata

Simple Yet Powerful API

One endpoint, endless possibilities

Quick Start

POST /api/scrape

Basic Request

curl -X POST 'https://api.websearchapi.ai/scrape' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "X-Return-Format: markdown" \
  -d '{"url": "https://example.com"}'

Response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "title": "Page Title",
    "content": "# Extracted Content\n...",
    "url": "https://example.com",
    "links": {...},
    "images": {...}
  }
}

Global Infrastructure

Distributed servers across multiple regions for low-latency access and compliance with local data regulations.

Stream Mode

Set Accept: text/event-stream for real-time streaming of large content extractions.

Authentication

Support for cookies, custom headers, and proxy authentication for accessing protected content.

Ready to Start Extracting?

Join thousands of developers using our Web Scraping API to power their AI applications, research projects, and data pipelines.

Fast extraction in milliseconds
99.9% uptime SLA
Intelligent content parsing