Scrappey

Pay-per-request scraping API with residential proxies, JS rendering

By Nathan KesslerUpdated Jul 27, 2026

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What is Scrappey?

Scrappey is a web scraping API that pulls publicly available web data through direct HTTP requests or full browser automation in Chrome and Firefox. It handles JavaScript rendering, CAPTCHA challenges, and Cloudflare verification flows. Requests route through a pool of more than 50 million residential IPs across 195+ countries, and output comes back as HTML, JSON, cookies, or markdown formatted for LLM input. It supports over 30 browser automation actions and charges per request rather than by subscription; failed requests are not billed.

Our verdict

The pay-per-request pricing and no-subscription model fit teams with variable scraping volume, and the CAPTCHA and Cloudflare handling address a common pain point for JavaScript-heavy sites. The company discloses no funding, launch date, or customer base, and the core service is closed source, so buyers have to lean on the free trial and Trustpilot reviews rather than a public track record.

Categories:

Web Scraping APIs

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.