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Web Scraping API · Free tier available
Web pages in.
Useful data out.
Extract clean, developer-ready content from static and JavaScript-rendered pages. Built for AI agents, RAG pipelines, research, SEO, and automation.
Capabilities
One fetch. Clean outputs.
Choose static extraction for speed or browser rendering for JavaScript-heavy pages. Automatic selection is available when you do not want to decide.
Metadata and schema
Extract links, metadata, JSON-LD, page sections, and raw HTML when required.
SEO diagnostics
Inspect essential on-page signals through a dedicated audit endpoint.
Web scraping API guide
Structured web data for software, agents, and search workflows.
ToolTrace turns a public page into predictable JSON so your application can spend less time parsing HTML and more time using the result.
What is a web scraping API?
A web scraping API fetches a public URL and returns information from the page through a stable application interface. Instead of maintaining request code, HTML parsers, browser workers, retries, and output cleanup in every project, developers send a URL and receive structured data.
ToolTrace is designed for targeted page extraction. It can return readable Markdown, normalized metadata, links, JSON-LD schema, page structure, raw HTML, and technical SEO diagnostics. This makes it useful for research systems, content monitoring, retrieval pipelines, publishing checks, and AI agents that need evidence from the live web.
Choose the smallest endpoint that answers the job
Use the extraction endpoint when you need clean page content for storage, analysis, summarization, or retrieval. Use metadata extraction for titles, descriptions, canonical URLs, Open Graph values, and Twitter cards. The links endpoint is better for discovery and relationship analysis, while the schema endpoint isolates JSON-LD and other structured data.
For technical search checks, the SEO audit endpoint reports page-level signals. The XML Sitemap Checker API handles sitemap discovery, XML validation, child documents, live status codes, redirects, robots rules, canonical conflicts, and technical indexability. Smaller purpose-built responses are easier to validate and usually require less downstream processing than one oversized payload.
Static extraction or JavaScript rendering
Static extraction reads the initial server response and is normally the fastest option. It works well for server-rendered pages, articles, documentation, and sites that include meaningful content in their HTML. A web scraping API can use browser rendering when important content appears only after JavaScript executes.
Do not render every page by default. Browser work costs more time and compute, and many pages do not need it. ToolTrace can select a method automatically, or developers can choose explicitly when they already understand the target. The response explains the render method and relevant warnings so automation can make informed decisions.
Web extraction for AI agents and RAG pipelines
Language models work better with focused context than with navigation, scripts, style rules, cookie banners, and duplicated template text. Clean Markdown and structured sections reduce noise before content enters a prompt, index, or retrieval system. Metadata and canonical fields also help preserve provenance when a result is stored.
A robust pipeline should keep the requested URL, final URL, status code, extraction method, warnings, and timestamp beside the extracted content. It should also reject failed fetches and respect response limits. ToolTrace exposes these operational signals so an agent can distinguish a clean source from a partial or blocked result instead of treating every response as equally reliable.
Reliable and responsible web data collection
Only collect public information you are permitted to use. Follow applicable laws, website terms, robots policies, privacy requirements, and intellectual property rules. Use sensible request rates, cache stable results, and avoid collecting personal or sensitive data without a valid purpose. A web scraping API reduces infrastructure work, but it does not remove the caller's responsibility.
Start with the free Web Page Scraper for one static page, then use the API documentation for rendering choices, additional outputs, and automation. Use the free Meta Tag Checker for page-level metadata and the XML Sitemap Checker for sitemap health.
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