Zyte

Zyte is a web data extraction platform — the company behind Scrapy — offering scraping APIs, automatic extraction and managed infrastructure.

Overview

Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub) has been in web scraping for over a decade and maintains the open-source Scrapy framework. Its platform handles the hard parts of extraction: proxy management, ban avoidance, headless browsing and AI-powered data extraction that returns structured JSON from any page. Zyte’s API decides automatically whether a request needs a browser or a simple fetch, optimizing cost and speed. Enterprises use it for large-scale, continuous data collection with compliance tooling.

Key Features

• Scraping API with automatic browser handling
• AI-powered structured data extraction
• Proxy management and ban avoidance at scale
• Scrapy cloud hosting and managed infrastructure
• Compliance and data collection governance
• Pay-for-what-you-need pricing model

Pricing

Zyte is usage-priced with pay-as-you-go APIs and enterprise agreements; pricing scales with requests and extraction complexity.

Who Is It For

Data teams and enterprises collecting web data continuously at scale with engineering-friendly tooling.

Use Cases

E-commerce teams collect competitor pricing daily at scale, and market researchers monitor news and job listings globally. Data teams feed LLM pipelines with structured web content.

Getting Started

Sign up for API credits, run a sample extraction on a target page and tune the automatic extraction settings.

FAQ

Is Zyte free to use?

Trial credits are available; production usage is usage-priced.

Does Zyte offer an API?

Yes — the Zyte API is the core product for automated extraction.

How does Zyte compare to alternatives?

Versus Bright Data, Zyte is more developer- and Scrapy-oriented; versus DIY scraping it removes infrastructure maintenance.

How does it avoid bans?

Automatic proxy management, browser handling and adaptive request strategies handle most anti-bot defenses at scale.

What output formats?

Structured JSON for extraction APIs, raw HTML for fetch use cases, and data delivery options for large pipelines.

What is the automatic extraction?

AI models parse pages into structured JSON — prices, reviews, articles — without hand-written selectors, adapting as page layouts change.

How does pricing work?

You pay for requests and extraction complexity; the API automatically chooses the cheapest method that will succeed for each page.

Does Zyte handle bans?

Automatic proxy rotation, browser orchestration and adaptive request strategies handle most anti-bot systems at scale — the core operational value.

Is Scrapy still maintained?

Yes — Zyte maintains the open-source Scrapy framework, which remains the most popular Python scraping library worldwide.

How does billing work?

Usage-based billing charges for requests and extraction complexity, with the API automatically choosing cost-efficient processing paths.