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Dev tools · April 5, 2020

ScrapingAnt

ScrapingAnt helps you to forget about getting blocked

ScrapingAnt launched on April 5, 2020 with 17 votes, #1,140 of 5,003 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

What it does

Web Scraping and Web Harvesting are challenging tasks. Many specialists have to handle Javascript rendering, headless browser update and maintenance, proxies diversity and rotation. So ScrapingAnt will resolve all the problems for you.

ScrapingAnt is a Web Scraping API for builders: Headless Chrome, 3M+ rotating proxies, AI extraction, hosted MCP server for AI agents — one credit pool, one key. 10K free credits, no card.

Headless Chrome, 3M+ rotating proxies, parallel concurrency, and AI extraction — behind one API. Pick the entry point that fits your stack. Every plan unlocks them all. Describe data in plain English, get structured JSON back. Zero selectors. Native tools for Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf. 30-second install. 3M+ IPs across 100+ countries. Rotate per request, geo-target by code. High-speed datacenter IPs with sticky sessions. Built for volume scraping. ScrapingAnt scales horizontally — fire 1,000 requests in parallel without queues, throttling, or worker management. The cluster auto-allocates Chrome instances and proxies on every request, so a tiny script and a Fortune 500 pipeline behave…from scrapingant.com

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