Prompt
Bulk website scraping API
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Oct 4, 2026
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If you mean an API for bulk website scraping, there are a few common options depending on whether you want:
- Managed scraping service (you send URLs, it returns extracted data)
- General-purpose crawling/scraping API
- Your own bulk scraper API built on top of a scraper framework
Popular managed options
- Apify – good for bulk jobs, crawling, proxies, scheduling, datasets
- Zyte API – strong for anti-bot handling and extraction
- ScraperAPI – simpler HTTP-based scraping with proxy rotation
- Bright Data Web Scraper APIs – enterprise-grade, many targets
- Diffbot – structured extraction from pages/articles/products
If you want to build one
A typical bulk scraping API has:
POST /jobsto submit many URLsGET /jobs/{id}for statusGET /jobs/{id}/resultsfor output- queue + workers
- rate limiting / retries
- proxy rotation
- headless browser support for JS-heavy sites
Example bulk job payload
{
"urls": [
"https://example.com/page1",
"https://example.com/page2"
],
"extract": ["title", "price", "links"]
}
Example response
{
"job_id": "abc123",
"status": "queued"
}
If you want, I can give you:
- a list of the best bulk scraping APIs for your use case, or
- a design for building your own bulk website scraping API.