There hundreds of scraping APIs out there. Some are good, some are bad.

But there is no need to spend a ton of time searching and evaluating all these options. Check out the best scraping APIs in 2025:

1. ScreenshotOne
2. Web Unlocker by BrightData
3. ScrapingDog

Try a few options and if one of the options has suitable pricing and quality that fits you, go with it.

3 best scraping APIs

1. ScreenshotOne

ScreenshotOne is not a scraping API and not intended to be used for scraping. But surprisingly, there is a set of options that can make the ScreenshotOne API a decent scrapping solution. Just specify format=html and you get the HTML of the page:

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https://api.screenshotone.com/take?access_key=<your access key>&url=https://example.com&format=html

But since the API optimized for rendering perfect screenshots and if you need screenshots, you can get both perfect screenshots and rendered HTML after JavaScript, just specify metadata_content=true:

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https://api.screenshotone.com/take?access_key=<your access key>&url=https://example.com&metadata_content=true

And you will get as a header or in the response body when the JSON response is requested.

ScreenshotOne has basic stealth abilities included in every plan. But as mentioned before, it is not optimized for scrapping, rather for screenshots.

2. Web Unlocker by BrightData

BrigthData Web Unlocker is a simple API endpoint that returns you rendered HTML after JavaScript including by-passing protections.

It has an affordable pay-as-you-go pricing and you only pay for successful requests. It is a no-brainer deal.

It is a simple to use as:

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curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer [INSERT_YOUR_API_TOKEN]" -d '{"zone": "[INSERT_YOUR_WEB_UNLOCKER_ZONE_NAME]","url": "[INSERT_YOUR_TARGET_URL]", "format": "raw"}' https://api.brightdata.com/request

Check out more details in the Web Unlocker documentation.

3. ScrapingDog

ScrapingDog is a scraping API that can be used for scraping websites.

You can check out reviews about ScrapingDog in Trustpilot. Majority of them are positive.

They also support AI-based parsing. With a simple ai_query query parameter, you can get the specific data from the page without specifying any concrete selectors.

The benefit of using specialized scraping API over more generic solutions is that they cover special use cases and have custom scrappers. You can check out that in their documentation.

Summary

If you have basic needs for scraping and will perform ethical and legal scraping, you can just use ScreenshotOne if it works for your cases. In addition, you will get perfect screenshots.

However, if you have more sophisticated scrapping needs, you can check out the other options that might fit better.