Scraper API Overview
Learn what the Geonode Scraper API does and where to start.
The Geonode Scraper API lets you send webpage URLs and get extracted page content back as Markdown or HTML. It handles proxy routing, geo-targeting, JavaScript rendering, and anti-bot handling for you, so you can focus on the page content instead of maintaining proxy and browser infrastructure.
When to Use It
Use the Scraper API when you want:
- Clean Markdown or HTML from a webpage.
- A hosted extraction workflow instead of a custom scraper.
- Batch extraction for a list of known URLs.
- Site crawling from a seed URL.
- Built-in proxy routing and geo-targeting.
- JavaScript rendering without running your own browser workers.
- Webhook callbacks when long-running jobs finish.
- A simple request-based billing model.
If you need lower-level control over browser behavior, custom sessions, or your own parsing pipeline, use the Geonode Proxy API directly.
Start Here
If you're new to the Scraper API, start with the quick start guide. It shows how to get your API key, make your first extraction request, choose Markdown or HTML output, and understand where request balance fits into the workflow.