ScrapeNest Documentation¶
ScrapeNest is a scraping API for teams that need reliable web data collection at scale. Submit a job, choose the right execution tier, and get back artifacts: rendered HTML, screenshots, extracted JSON, network traces, and execution metadata.
The platform handles the hard parts of production scraping: fast HTTP collection, browser rendering, fingerprint control, proxy routing, retries, webhooks, retention, and auditability.
What You Can Build¶
- High-volume HTTP scraping with TLS/HTTP impersonation for APIs, static pages, and catalog pages.
- Rendered browser scraping for JavaScript apps, dashboards, dynamic listings, and pages that require interactions.
- Advanced anti-blocking workflows with managed proxies, browser fingerprint controls, OS profiles, extensions, and session stickiness.
- Structured extraction pipelines that return JSON directly from CSS selectors, regular expressions, or JSONPath.
- Production integrations with API keys, scopes, idempotency, webhooks, rate limits, artifacts, retention, and observability.
Scrape a page in five lines¶
from scrapenest import ScrapeNestClient
client = ScrapeNestClient(api_key="sn_live_...", base_url="https://api.scrapenest.com")
result = client.scrape(job_type="light", target_url="https://example.com")
print(result.status, result.artifact_count)
pip install scrapenest-sdk and you're ready. Prefer raw HTTP? The guides show equivalent curl payloads.
Start Here¶
- Quickstart - submit a job, wait for completion, and download the result.
- Worker Tiers - choose
light,standard, orstealth. - Extract structured data - return JSON instead of parsing HTML yourself.
- Anti-blocking guide - tune protected-target jobs with Stealth, proxies, and fingerprints.
- API Reference - every endpoint, parameter, and response schema.
Production Topics¶
- Errors & Retries: distinguish API errors, job failures, timeouts, and retryable statuses.
- Rate Limits & Quotas: tune throughput per organization and per API key.
- Webhooks: stop polling and receive job/artifact events.
- Data Retention & Holds: control artifact lifetime and holds.