Skrape is an API that transforms any website into structured JSON or Markdown, designed for developers building AI agents, RAG pipelines, and data products. It combines smart web crawling with a headless browser to capture and structure web content in real time.
Key Features
- Smart crawling and navigation. Skrape handles robots.txt, sitemaps, and complex pagination automatically. It navigates websites naturally to provide complete coverage without manual configuration.
- Headless browser engine. Full JavaScript rendering with network idle detection and hydration handling captures the complete page state, including single-page applications and dynamically rendered content.
- Clean Markdown output. Extracted content is converted into semantic Markdown optimized for LLM consumption. HTML clutter and noise are stripped to produce clean, structured text.
- Type-safe structured data. Developers define a Zod schema and receive validated, strictly typed JSON. No complex CSS selectors or XPath queries are required.
- Real-time extraction. Every request fetches live data from the target website. Skrape does not serve stale caches, ensuring fresh intelligence on every call.
- Browser interactions. The API supports simulating user behavior such as clicking, scrolling, typing, and waiting, enabling access to content behind interactive gates and dynamic loaders.
Use Cases
- RAG pipelines. Developers use Skrape to feed structured web context into retrieval-augmented generation systems for grounded AI responses.
- LLM training and evaluation. Domain-specific corpora can be collected for fine-tuning and benchmarking language models.
- Market intelligence. Automated competitor tracking and price monitoring workflows rely on Skrape consistent extraction to keep data fresh.
Intended Users
- Software engineers building AI agents that need to read and interpret web pages.
- Data scientists and ML engineers assembling training datasets from public web sources.
- Product teams that require structured external data for dashboards, alerts, and analytics.
Integrations
- Skrape exposes a REST JSON API that accepts a URL and returns structured data in JSON or Markdown format.
- A Zod schema system lets developers declare the output shape in their application code without external configuration files.
- Example integrations are published on GitHub for common workflows.
Pricing
- A free trial includes 50 credits with no credit card required, limited to 5 requests per 10 seconds.
- Starter plan at $15 per month includes 3,000 credits for small projects and individual developers.
- Growth plan at $50 per month includes 10,000 credits with priority support for growing teams.
- Pro plan at $250 per month includes 50,000 credits with custom rate limits for businesses.
- Credits are consumed at 1 credit per HTML-to-Markdown page, 5 credits per AI extraction page, and 1 credit per crawled page.
Privacy and Security
- Skrape is operated by Lystad Ventures, a Norwegian company, and complies with GDPR for all user data.
- User authentication is handled by Clerk, payments are processed through Stripe, and hosting is on Vercel.
- API usage logs are retained for a maximum of 30 days for security and debugging.
