Credits and Requests
Every time you make a request, you consume credits. The credits you have available are defined by the plan you are currently using. The amount of credits you consume depends on the domain and parameters you add to your request.
Domains
We have created custom scrapers to target these sites, if you scrape one of these domain categories you will activate this scraper and the credit cost will change.
Normal Requests
1
E-Commerce Amazon
5
SERP Google, Bing - (applies to all subdomains)
25
Social Media LinkedIn, Twitter
30
Other domains may be applied, please use our API Playground before scraping to understand the cost per request will be.
If you are not a fan of GUI, you can call this API endpoint: https://api.scraperapi.com/account/urlcost
It supports all parameters as well. This comes in handy if you'd like to check what the cost is when enabling JS rendering for example.
Access to Protected Websites
Accessing domains with anti-scraping protections requires the activation of a bypass mechanism. This specialized process involves additional resources, resulting in an extra cost for scraping these protected websites.
Cloudflare Bypass
10
Datadome Bypass
10
PerimeterX/Human Bypass
10
We highly recommend using our API Playground before scraping to understand what the cost per request will be - as domains may switch protection measures. You can also set limits on your API credit expenditure. To find out more, please visit this page.
Response Headers
Our Response Headers to each request will contain cost information on how many credits were spent on such a request: sa-credit-cost
Parameters
According to your needs, you may want to access different features on our platform.
premium=true – requests cost 10 credits
render=true – requests cost 10 credits
wait_for_selector = x - no extra cost
premium=true + render=true – requests cost 25 credits
ultra_premium=true – requests cost 30 credits*
ultra_premium=true + render=true – requests cost 75 credits*
keep_headers = true - no extra cost
country_code = x - no extra cost
session_number = x - no extra cost
In any requests, with or without these parameters, we will only charge for successful requests (200 and 404 status codes) and for requests that have been cancelled from your side before giving us enough time to finish them (70 seconds). If you run out of credits sooner than planned, you can renew your subscription early as explained in the section titled "Dashboard".
*Accounts that have discounted pricing will have a higher credit cost per request for our Ultra Premium domains to meet our minimum pricing of $3 per one thousand requests without rendering and $7 with rendered pages.
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