Overview
ProxyCrawl (now Crawlbase) is an anti-bot scraping and crawling API that routes requests through rotating residential and datacenter proxies, handles CAPTCHAs automatically, and returns the rendered HTML of JavaScript-heavy pages. Developers use it to collect publicly available web data without getting blocked by target websites. Authentication is via a token parameter provided after account registration.
Beginner Tip
Sign up at crawlbase.com to receive separate tokens for normal crawling and JavaScript rendering — make sure to use the right token for each use case. Start with a simple GET request wrapping a public URL to see how it works before tackling JS-rendered sites. Be mindful of credit consumption: JavaScript rendering costs more credits per request than standard HTML fetching.
Available Data
Example Response
{
"status": "success",
"data": {
"result": "Data from ProxyCrawl",
"description": "Scraping and crawling anticaptcha service",
"timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:00:00Z"
}
} Field Reference
body Raw HTML (or JSON) content of the target page as fetched through the proxy pc_status HTTP status code returned by the target website; 200 means the page was fetched successfully original_status The actual HTTP status Crawlbase received from the origin server before any proxy manipulation url Final URL after any redirects, which may differ from the URL you passed in Implementation Example
const url = "https://proxycrawl.com/";
// Replace headers or query params with the values required by this API.
const response = await fetch(url, {
headers: {
"X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
}
});
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data); What Can You Build?
Note: These code examples are AI-generated and unverified. Always refer to the official API documentation for accurate usage.
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Partially tested on Apr 5, 2026
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