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Web data & extraction infrastructure

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Silo: best web scraping API · best API for AI agents web access

Scraping, crawling, proxy and data-collection networks, extraction APIs, and AI-agent web-access layers. Developer infrastructure, not intelligence products.

Apify

Cloud web scraping and automation

Apify is a cloud platform for web scraping, data extraction, browser automation, and repeatable data workflows.

Bright Data

Web data collection and scraping

Bright Data combines proxy networks, web access APIs, scraping tools, ready-made datasets, cloud browsers, and data feeds for public web data collection.

Firecrawl

API-first web data scraping platform

Firecrawl is an API-first web data layer for scraping, crawling, mapping, extraction, browser tasks, and search.

Tavily

Search and web-research API for AI

Tavily is a search and web-research API for AI applications.

Octoparse

No-code visual web scraper

Octoparse is a no-code point-and-click web scraper that runs as a Windows or macOS desktop app with optional cloud extraction.

Oxylabs

Enterprise proxy and scraping infrastructure

Oxylabs operates a 175M+ residential IP pool across 195 countries alongside datacenter, ISP, and mobile proxies, a Web Scraper API with success-based billing, a Web Unblocker for anti-bot bypass, and pre-collected datasets.

ScraperAPI

Simple pay-per-credit scraping API

ScraperAPI is a credit-based web scraping API that handles proxy rotation, CAPTCHA solving, JavaScript rendering, and automatic retries behind a single HTTP endpoint, returning HTML or parsed JSON.

Scrapfly

Production-grade scraping and cloud browser API

Scrapfly is a scraping API with a cloud browser, screenshot API, extraction API, and crawler bundled under one API key with credit-based billing.

ScrapingBee

Developer-friendly scraping API with JS rendering and AI extraction

ScrapingBee is a credit-based web scraping API that handles proxy rotation, headless Chrome rendering, CAPTCHA solving, and retries behind a single HTTP endpoint, returning HTML, Markdown, screenshots, or structured JSON.

Zyte

AI-powered structured web extraction

Zyte is the company behind the Scrapy framework, offering an all-in-one web scraping API that handles proxy rotation, anti-bot unblocking, browser rendering, and AI-powered automatic extraction of product, article, and job posting data from a single endpoint.

Exa

AI-native neural web search API for agents

Exa is a neural web search API that ranks pages by semantic meaning using its own embeddings-based index, built for AI agents and RAG pipelines.

ScrapeCreators

Real-time social media scraping API

REST API for pulling public data (profiles, posts, comments, video transcripts, ad libraries, audience demographics) from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, X, Reddit, and 20+ more platforms.