# API League, free: Web scraping API

> Extract the main content from a web page.

API League's web scraping API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns 2 of the 7 key fields we check: HTML, Images.
We rank 1,653 plans by price. [PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/phantomjscloud/10-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 pages: as little as $0.022. PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan covers up to 15,000 pages a day.
[Spider Cloud's $40 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/40-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of pages. Spider Cloud's $40 monthly plan costs more up front than PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan.
[WebScraping.AI](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscraping-ai/29-monthly-personal-get-html-get-page-html-datacenter-proxy-no-js-rendering/llms.txt), [ScraperAPI](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scraperapi/299-monthly-business-get-sync-api/llms.txt) and [Scrappey](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v1-direct-request/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/api-league/free
- [Best web scraping API in 2026: providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://apileague.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.apileague.com/extract-content`
- API key: with the plan, on https://apileague.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://apileague.com/apis/extract-web-content-api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: API League (https://apileague.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-02

## In the answer

- Completeness: 29%
- HTML: ✓
- Images: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 pages: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 54 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Extract the main content from a web page.

## Data

- Keep data: no copy or storage of what it provides, with prior written permission, a cache of user-requested data for a maximum of 1 hour
- Use data: Non-Commercial Use, Backlink Required, a link to apileague.com on your website or application. You may use the data provided by the API League as part of your website, application, or other project, but you cannot use API League data to create a site or application meant to provide the same experience as API League [...] You may not create the impression that your site or application is endorsed by API League, nor may you use any API League brands/logos to promote your site/app without prior permission [...] You may not scrape the API League or in any way attempt to copy or store the information it provides, including any derived, hashed, or transformed data [...] You may not resell any data received via the API League. You may use the API League in order to compare the API League to API League competitors

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 50 tokens a day
- Enough for: 50 calls a day
- Expires: at midnight UTC, when the daily quota resets

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Concurrent: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.50 s

## The call

- You send: url
- Method: GET
- Path: /extract-content

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 4 fields the plan's answer can hold

title, main text, main HTML, images

## API League's plans (4)

- [API League, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/api-league/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 29% complete
- [API League, $7 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/api-league/7-monthly/llms.txt): $0.467 per 1,000, 29% complete
- [API League, $39 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/api-league/39-monthly/llms.txt): $0.26 per 1,000, 29% complete
- [API League, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/api-league/199-monthly/llms.txt): $0.133 per 1,000, 29% complete

## API League's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /extract-content`: [API League, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/api-league/free/llms.txt)

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- [API League: web search API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/api-league/free/llms.txt)

## API League: web scraping API alternatives

- [Supadata, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/supadata/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 29% complete
- [SocialCrawl, £299 pack, Pro, GET /v1/tavily/extract](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/socialcrawl/299-pack-pro-get-v1-tavily-extract/llms.txt): $0.133 per 1,000, 29% complete
- [ZenRows, $399 monthly, Growth G3, GET /v1/, Fetch a page](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/zenrows/399-monthly-growth-g3-get-v1-fetch-a-page/llms.txt): $0.133 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [AlterLab, $2,000 pack, Deposit $2,000, POST /api/v1/scrape, Scrape a web page](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/alterlab/2000-pack-deposit-2000-post-api-v1-scrape-scrape-a-web-page/llms.txt): $0.133 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Scrapingdog, $160,000 yearly, Ultra Pro, GET /scrape, Web Scraping API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapingdog/160000-yearly-ultra-pro-get-scrape-web-scraping-api/llms.txt): $0.133 per 1,000, 14% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-02.

- https://apileague.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://apileague.com/apis/extract-web-content-api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://apileague.com/docs/quotas-and-rate-limiting?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://apileague.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://apileague.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing