Crawlbase

By Crawlbase

Crawl and scrape websites through an API that handles proxies, CAPTCHAs, and blocking.

Web ScrapingCrawling APIProxy RotationData Extraction
Overview

What is Crawlbase?

Crawlbase, formerly ProxyCrawl, is a web crawling and scraping platform built around an API that fetches pages while managing proxies, IP rotation, CAPTCHAs, and site bans. It offers a Crawling API, a Smart Proxy, an asynchronous Crawler, cloud storage, and ready scrapers for sites such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook. Developers, data engineers, SEO specialists, and growth teams use Crawlbase to collect product, pricing, search, and social data at scale.

Best for
Software DevelopersData EngineersSEO SpecialistsEcommerce AnalystsGrowth Marketers
Product snapshot
Category
Data Extraction & Collection
Best for
Developer web scraping
Deployment
Cloud
Free trial
Yes (free plan)
Integrations
REST API and SDKs
AI features
No
Key features

Key features of Crawlbase

Crawling API

Fetch any public page with one request and get HTML or JSON.

Smart proxy

Route requests through rotating residential and data center IP addresses.

CAPTCHA and ban handling

Avoid blocks, CAPTCHAs, and IP leaks while scraping protected websites.

Ready-made scrapers

Extract structured data from Amazon, Google, Facebook, and similar sites.

Asynchronous crawler

Push large URL lists and receive results through a callback webhook.

Cloud storage

Store crawled pages and results in hosted storage for later retrieval.

Reviews

Crawlbase reviews

20 reviews

Overall

4.7/5

  • Ease of use4.5/5
  • Customer support4.6/5

What users like

  • Quick API integration for developers
  • Handles proxies and blocking well
  • Responsive support on hard cases
  • Easy to start for beginners

What users dislike

  • Documentation lacks depth for advanced cases
  • Billing details needed after trial
  • Some sites need manual configuration
  • Pricing can feel high at scale

Joseph T.

Web Developer

“Liked the quick integration and how it handles proxies and blocking after switching from Bright Data. Found that the documentation lacks depth for more advanced use cases.”

Majd A.

NLP Team Lead

“Liked the product overall and the responsive engineers. Found that each site needs manual configuration, blocked or empty pages still return 200 OK, and support did not adapt to experienced users.”

Harrison B.

Founder

“Liked that it is affordable, reliable, and fast compared with ScraperAPI, which the reviewer used before. Found the documentation hard to navigate at times.”

Joe M.

Digital Strategist

“Liked the wide range of APIs, the easy dashboard, and AI-based crawling compared with Apify. Found the free trial misleading because billing details are required to continue.”

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Integrations

Crawlbase integrations

Crawlbase connects to other systems mainly through its REST API, which returns page HTML or parsed JSON and can be called from any language that sends HTTP requests. The vendor provides libraries and code samples for common languages such as Python, Node.js, Ruby, PHP, and Java. The asynchronous Crawler posts results to a webhook URL, so teams can feed data into their own databases, queues, or pipelines. Crawled pages can be kept in Crawlbase cloud storage and fetched later through the Storage API. Teams also call the API from workflow tools such as n8n or custom scripts to move results into spreadsheets and analytics tools.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about Crawlbase