Scraping API
Ballistic Bot Bypass

Proxyrack scraping is priced by concurrency (threads), not per request, and every tier is flat and unmetered: 10 threads $119/mo, 100 threads $564/mo, and 1,000 threads $4,512/mo. Within a tier you can scrape unlimited pages — to scrape more in parallel you simply move up a tier. There are no per-request credits and no per-feature multipliers for residential proxies or JS rendering, so your bill stays fixed.

Threads are concurrent requests, so capacity ≈ threads × (seconds per month ÷ average request time) with threads saturated 24×7 (a 30-day month is 2,592,000 s). On a realistic mix of ~25.8 s/request (including failures and timeouts) each thread does ~100k requests/month, so 10 threads ≈ 1.0M, 100 ≈ 10.0M and 1,000 ≈ 100M per month. On a best case of ~9.0 s/request for clean fetches each thread does ~289k/month (roughly 2.9M, 28.9M and 289M respectively). These are throughput capacities, not request caps — volume is always unmetered, so the more you run on a tier the lower your effective cost-per-1k.

Metered competitors charge per successful request, so your bill rises in lockstep with usage. Proxyrack’s cost is fixed by your thread tier, so as you scale your per-request cost falls and your spend stays predictable — the opposite of credit-based pricing.

460 real URLs across 11 industry categories (automotive, e-commerce, financial, food delivery, jobs, maps/local, news, real estate, search engines, social/reviews, travel) on production WAF/anti-bot-protected sites. Success = a usable page returned. Each provider was configured at its residential/premium tier for an apples-to-apples comparison. Treat it as a point-in-time internal benchmark — results vary by target mix, geography and date.

Yes — every plan comes with a money back guarantee. If the API does not meet your needs, contact support within the guarantee window and we will refund your most recent payment, no questions asked.

A web scraping API is a service that lets you send a request to a URL and receive structured data back. It handles the hard parts of scraping — proxies, headless browsers, JavaScript rendering, CAPTCHAs, and retries — so you can focus on consuming the data.

You make an HTTP request to the API with a target URL and any options you need. The API renders the page (if needed), routes the request through a pool of proxies, handles anti-bot challenges, and returns the page content or extracted fields as JSON or HTML.

Scraping publicly available data is generally legal, but it depends on jurisdiction and how the data is used. Always check the target site's terms of service, respect robots.txt where applicable, and avoid scraping personal or copyrighted data without permission.

Most public data scraping is legal, but specifics vary by country and use case. Avoid scraping personal data without a legal basis, and review the source site's terms before launching large-scale jobs.

Use rotating proxies, randomize user agents, respect rate limits, and render JavaScript when needed. Our API does all of this automatically — including CAPTCHA solving and intelligent retries.

Yes. Set render_js=true on your request and we will run a full headless Chrome instance to render the page before returning the content. This works for SPAs, infinite scroll, and any client-side rendered site.

When done through our API, all requests run through our infrastructure. Your real IP is never exposed to the target site, and we sandbox each request to prevent cross-contamination of sessions.

No. We route every request through our proxy network, so your own IP is never used. We rotate IPs automatically and retry failed requests to maximize success rate.

We validate responses, retry on failures, and detect common error patterns (CAPTCHAs, soft blocks, empty bodies). You get a consistent payload with status metadata so you can trust the results.

We do not retain scraped page contents beyond what is needed to return your response. Request metadata is kept for billing and abuse prevention. See our privacy policy for the full retention schedule.

Yes. Modern SPAs are first-class. The headless browser fully executes JavaScript, waits for content to load, and can run custom scripts before extraction.

Our infrastructure detects and solves common CAPTCHA challenges automatically, manages browser fingerprints to look like real users, and rotates IPs and headers on each request.

Yes — but you do not need to bring your own. Our API includes a large pool of residential and datacenter proxies, with automatic rotation, included in every plan.

Yes. Every request is automatically routed through a fresh IP from our pool. You can also pin a session to a single IP for workflows that require sticky sessions.