What is Crawlbase?
Crawlbase (formerly ProxyCrawl, operating since 2017) is a web data extraction platform built around a Crawling API that returns JSON from a single URL with automatic JavaScript rendering and anti-bot handling, plus an asynchronous Enterprise Crawler for queue-based crawling of millions of URLs with callback delivery. It also has a Smart AI Proxy residential proxy network (self-reported at roughly 140 million IPs across 30 regions), cloud storage for crawl results, a Web MCP Server for LLM and agent integration, and managed scrapers for sites such as Amazon, Walmart, Google, and LinkedIn. SDKs cover Node, Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, .NET, and Go, with integrations for n8n, Zapier, and Scrapy.
Our verdict
Crawlbase bundles a general scraping API, a residential proxy network, and site-specific managed scrapers under one vendor, useful for teams that want to consolidate several scraping needs instead of stitching together separate tools. Its scale figures (46,000+ customers, 99.99% uptime, 142ms average latency) are self-reported rather than independently audited, so treat them as vendor claims when comparing against other providers.
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Web scraping APIs take a URL and return the page, hiding the parts that break at scale: proxy rotation, headless browsers, CAPTCHA handling, and retries. Teams reach for them when maintaining their own scraping infrastructure stops being worth the engineering time.
