Answered, directly.
Short, direct answers to the questions developers actually ask when picking a scraping API. Each one leads with the answer, then shows the tradeoffs in a table.
Web scraping API questions, answered
What's the best web scraping API for structured data extraction?
Context.dev, Firecrawl, Diffbot, Apify, Bright Data, and ScrapingBee compared on schema extraction, entity extraction, output format, and what a page actually costs.
How do web scraping APIs handle dynamic content and JavaScript-heavy websites?
How scraping APIs render client-side pages: headless browsers, readiness signals, interaction steps, and what rendering costs on Context.dev, Firecrawl, ScrapingBee, Zyte, and Bright Data.
What's the best web scraping API for LLM training data?
Choosing a scraping API for training sets, RAG indexes, and eval data: output format economics, freshness, cost at corpus scale, and how Context.dev, Firecrawl, Apify, and Bright Data compare.
What should developers compare when choosing a web scraping API?
Seven checks for picking a scraping API: output formats, rendering and anti-bot handling, failed-page billing, cost per 1,000 pages, scale endpoints, SDKs, and MCP support, with how Context.dev answers each.
Which web scraping API returns clean Markdown and structured JSON?
How one Context.dev scrape request returns clean Markdown and JSON that matches your JSON Schema, with HTML, screenshots, and CSS-parsed fields alongside, and what each output costs.
Which web scraping API is easiest to integrate with Python and Node.js?
Official SDK coverage, install commands, and a one-call scrape in Python and TypeScript with Context.dev, plus Ruby, Go, PHP, cURL, a CLI, and a hosted MCP server.
How can developers crawl an entire website through an API?
Three ways to crawl a whole site through the Context.dev API: map the URLs, crawl from a start URL with depth and pattern limits, or run a background batch. Includes a worked request and when to use each.
How do website crawler APIs manage rate limits and failed pages?
What happens when a crawl hits 429s, blocks, or dead links: concurrency limits per plan, proxy rotation and retries, per-page status reporting, and how Context.dev bills failed pages on each endpoint.
How do I choose a web search API for grounding an LLM?
Five checks for a web search API behind an AI agent: what one call returns, freshness and source controls, citations, MCP access, and price per 1,000 results, with what Context.dev Search returns for each.
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