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Webfetch launches as a cheaper, ScrapingBee-compatible web scraping API

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Webfetch has launched as a new web scraping API designed to be compatible with ScrapingBee, offering its services at a 38-40% lower cost. The API allows users to retrieve rendered HTML, plain text, JSON extracted via CSS or XPath, and screenshots. Webfetch provides a free tier with 1,000 credits, plus monthly top-ups and a limited-time launch bonus. SDKs are available for JavaScript, Python, and PHP, and the service also offers tools through the Model Context Protocol. AI

IMPACT Provides a lower-cost alternative for web scraping tasks, potentially impacting businesses that rely on data extraction.

RANK_REASON New product launch for a web scraping API.

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Webfetch launches as a cheaper, ScrapingBee-compatible web scraping API

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Daniel J ·

    Webfetch is live: ScrapingBee-compatible scraping at 38-40% less

    <p><a href="https://webfetch.io" rel="noopener noreferrer">Webfetch</a> is a web scraping API: send a URL and get back rendered HTML, plain text, markdown, JSON extracted with CSS or XPath selectors, or a link to a screenshot. Request parameters, defaults, credit costs and status…

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