Zyte
AI-powered web scraping platform with Smart Proxy Manager and ready-made data APIs
About Zyte
Zyte (the company behind Scrapy) is a web data extraction platform built around its Zyte API — an AI-driven scraping endpoint that handles proxies, headless browsers, anti-bot bypassing, and automatic retries behind a single call. Rather than selling raw proxy bandwidth, Zyte abstracts the entire unblocking problem: you pass a URL, it returns structured data or rendered HTML, and usage is billed per successful request. The platform is the default choice for engineering teams that already use Scrapy and want a managed infrastructure for large-scale extraction without running their own proxy rotation or headless browser farm.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Pay-per-successful-request pricing aligns cost with outcomes, not wasted bandwidth
- Deepest integration with Scrapy — the de facto Python scraping framework
- AI-powered automatic extraction eliminates selector maintenance on product/article pages
- Strong compliance posture with in-house DPO services
- Abstracts away proxy management entirely — great for engineering teams
Cons
- Higher cost per GB than raw-proxy providers if you only need IPs
- Less transparent control over IP selection vs providers like Oxylabs
- Steeper learning curve if you are not already in the Scrapy ecosystem
Key Features
Zyte API (AI Extraction)
Single API handles proxies, JS rendering, anti-bot bypass, and automatic retries with AI-optimized routing
Smart Proxy Manager
Intelligent rotation across multiple proxy pools with ban detection and automatic failover
Automatic Extraction
AI-powered structured data extraction (products, articles, jobs) without writing selectors
Scrapy Cloud
Managed deployment and scheduling for Scrapy spiders with built-in monitoring
Browser Rendering
Headless browser rendering for JavaScript-heavy sites, billed only on successful extractions
Compliance & DPO Services
Built-in GDPR/CCPA tooling plus optional legal review for sensitive verticals
Pay-Per-Success Billing
You only pay for requests that return data — failed attempts are free
Pricing
- Free $5 trial credit
- Pay-per-successful-request
- Full API access
- Community support
- Managed proxy rotation
- 50K requests included
- Automatic ban handling
- Standard support
- Managed Scrapy hosting
- Scheduling & monitoring
- Scalable units
- Add-ons available
- Volume pricing
- Dedicated infrastructure
- SLA & DPO services
- Priority support
Best For
Managed scraping for engineering teams
Offload proxies, headless rendering, and anti-bot handling to a single API
Large-scale product data extraction
Automatic extraction returns structured product JSON across thousands of retailers
Compliance-sensitive data collection
Built-in DPO services and audit trails for regulated industries
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