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Dev tools · October 14, 2020

ScrapeOwl

Simple and powerful web scraping API

ScrapeOwl launched on October 14, 2020 with 389 votes, #36 of 4,018 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

In plain words

ScrapeOwl is a web scraping API that handles proxies, headless browsers, and HTML parsing automatically. Designed for developers, it simplifies data extraction by requiring users to only specify the website and desired elements rather than managing technical infrastructure. The service removes complexity from web scraping workflows, making it accessible for those needing to gather structured data from websites.

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From the sources

ScrapeOwl is a simple and powerful web scraping API that manages proxies, headless browsers, and HTML parsing. We develop the best tooling for you to get what you need by removing the complexity. Simply specify the website and the element you want.

ScrapeOwl is easy to use and powerful web scraping and parsing API that handles proxies and headless browsers, so you can focus on the data you want.

Create an account , get your API key and start sending requests. Focus on scraping the data you need, not on proxies, headless browsers, and HTML parsing. Never get blocked. We only use the highest quality residential IP addresses to ensure reliability and uptime. Run chrome instances to scrape-at-scale without worrying about resource usage or browser and session management. Get country-specific results for platforms that use localization to display prices and descriptions like Amazon.fr vs Amazon.ae and eBay. Circumvent web security measures by getting data without triggering Catpchas on Cloudflare, Hcaptcha, Google recaptcha. Get country-specific results for platforms that use…from scrapeowl.com

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