# Domscout, free: Web scraping API

> POST /scrape returns a page as readable Markdown with its title, links, and metadata - useful for RAG, summarization, search indexing, and downstream agents.

Domscout's web scraping API on its Hobby plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns 3 of the 7 key fields we check: Screenshot, Markdown, Links.
We haven't run Domscout through [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 2,105 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 per 1,000 pages or less.
[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.
[80legs's $29 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/80legs/29-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of pages. 80legs's $29 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 the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/domscout/free
- [Web scraping API: the best of 100+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.domscout.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.domscout.io/scrape`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.domscout.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.domscout.io/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing#scrape
- Sold by: Domscout (https://www.domscout.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 43%
- Screenshot: ✓
- Markdown: ✓
- Links: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: POST /screenshot

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: POST /scrape returns a page as readable Markdown with its title, links, and metadata - useful for RAG, summarization, search indexing, and downstream agents.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You must not use the service to: access systems you are not authorised to access, or bypass authentication, paywalls, or access controls, capture material that is illegal, or that infringes someone else’s rights, collect personal data in breach of applicable data protection law, overwhelm a third-party site, or evade its rate limits or protections, resell raw capture capacity as a competing general-purpose browser API, circumvent quotas, credit accounting, or plan restrictions.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 1,000 calls a month
- Expires: end of month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling

## The call

- You send: one of url, html or selector. Optional: renderJs, fast, screenshot, async, probe, width, height, isMobile, hasTouch, deviceScaleFactor, quality, fullPage, captureSelector, hideSelectors, captureMode, waitForSelector, delay, headers, cookies, injectCSS, injectJS, aiMode, debugOverlay, performanceOverlay, forceState, actions, typeSpeed, fastType, captureTimeline, extractMarkdown, semanticNodes, simplifyDom, lazyScroll, pdfFormat, landscape, printBackground, save, captureName, retentionDays, callbackUrl, callbackSecret, semanticSnapshot, diagnostics, render, cleanup, extract
- Method: POST
- Path: /scrape

## About the plan

- Plan: Hobby
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold

URL, title, Markdown, links, status code, description, Open Graph title, Open Graph description, Open Graph image, word count, character count, estimated tokens, content quality, JavaScript rendering, response time, truncated, advice, credits charged, screenshot

## Domscout's plans (7)

- [Domscout, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/domscout/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Domscout, $9 monthly, Pro, POST /scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/domscout/9-monthly-pro-post-scrape/llms.txt): $1.80 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Domscout, $29 monthly, Business, POST /scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/domscout/29-monthly-business-post-scrape/llms.txt): $1.16 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Domscout, $99 monthly, Enterprise, POST /scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/domscout/99-monthly-enterprise-post-scrape/llms.txt): $0.99 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Domscout, $90 yearly, Pro, POST /scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/domscout/90-yearly-pro-post-scrape/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Domscout, $290 yearly, Business, POST /scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/domscout/290-yearly-business-post-scrape/llms.txt): $0.967 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Domscout, $990 yearly, Enterprise, POST /scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/domscout/990-yearly-enterprise-post-scrape/llms.txt): $0.825 per 1,000, 43% complete, live

## Domscout's calls (2)

- `POST /scrape`: [Domscout, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/domscout/free/llms.txt)
- `POST /extract`: [Domscout, $9 monthly, Pro, POST /extract](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/domscout/9-monthly-pro-post-extract/llms.txt)

## Domscout's APIs (1)

- [Domscout: web scraping API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/domscout/free/llms.txt)

## Domscout: web scraping API alternatives

- [ZenRows, $990 yearly, Launch L2, billed yearly, GET /v1/, Fetch a page, JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/zenrows/990-yearly-launch-l2-billed-yearly-get-v1-fetch-a-page-javascript-rendering/llms.txt): $0.825 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [CrawlForge, $990 yearly, Professional, POST /tools/extract_text](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlforge/990-yearly-professional-post-tools-extract-text/llms.txt): $0.825 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [ScraperAPI, $21,330 yearly, Advanced, GET /, Sync API with screenshot](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scraperapi/21330-yearly-advanced-get-sync-api-with-screenshot/llms.txt): $0.827 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [WebScraping.AI, $249 monthly, Startup, GET /text, Get Page Text, residential proxy, no JS rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscraping-ai/249-monthly-startup-get-text-get-page-text-residential-proxy-no-js-rendering/llms.txt): $0.83 per 1,000, 29% 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 2026-11-05.

- https://www.domscout.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.domscout.io/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.domscout.io/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.domscout.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.domscout.io/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing