# FineData, free, POST /api/v1/scrape, Scrape URL: Web scraping API

> Send a URL and the fields you need. Get clean JSON back, without maintaining browsers or page selectors.

FineData's web scraping API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns 5 of the 7 key fields we check. 4 are in the plan's price: Markdown, HTML, Text, Links. 1 costs extra: Screenshot.
We rank 1,503 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 to start 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/finedata/free-post-api-v1-scrape-scrape-url
- [Best web scraping API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://finedata.ai/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.finedata.ai/api/v1/scrape`, Scrape URL
- API key: with the plan, on https://finedata.ai/pricing
- Its API docs: https://finedata.ai/docs/#scrape-endpoint
- Sold by: FineData (https://finedata.ai)
- Checked: 2026-11-01

## In the answer

- Completeness: 71%
- Screenshot: ✓ costs more
- Markdown: ✓
- HTML: ✓
- Text: ✓
- Links: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Extra fields: AI-extracted data, extracted CSV, extracted spreadsheet: +$0.00 · screenshot: +$0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Scrape URL, full · Google search (SERP) · Submit Async Job · Submit Batch

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Send a URL and the fields you need. Get clean JSON back, without maintaining browsers or page selectors.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "You own the data you extract. We make no claim to ownership of the content returned by our API. However, you are solely responsible for ensuring that your data collection activities comply with applicable laws, the target website's terms of service, and our Acceptable Use Policy." "Use it to monitor the ranking and visibility of your own domains and brand queries. Follow the Acceptable Use Policy: the permitted case is SEO and SERP tracking for your own domains." "The following activities are strictly prohibited." "Using the Service for any activity that violates applicable local, state, national, or international law." "Scraping personal information (emails, phone numbers, physical addresses, social security numbers, financial data) without explicit consent from the data subjects or a valid legal basis under applicable data protection laws (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)." "Using the Service to test stolen credentials, brute-force login pages, bypass authentication mechanisms, or gain unauthorized access to accounts on any website or service." "Using the Service to overwhelm, degrade, or disrupt target websites or any third-party infrastructure." "Collecting contact information for the purpose of sending unsolicited emails, SMS messages, or other communications." "Using the Service to distribute malware, ransomware, phishing pages, or exploit kits." "Bypassing paywalls, subscription walls, or other access controls to extract content that is not publicly available." "Reselling, sublicensing, or providing access to the FineData API as a proxy or scraping service to third parties without our prior written consent." "You may not resell, redistribute, or make available to third parties any Personal Data collected through the Service unless you have a valid legal basis for doing so under applicable data protection laws."

## Plan

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

## Rate limit

- Per second: 2
- Concurrent: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: url, use_antibot "false". Optional: method, headers, body, timeout, max_retries, auto_retry, tls_profile, use_residential, use_isp, use_mobile, proxy_sticky, proxy_country, proxy_profile_id, stealth_antibot, stealth_antibot_headful, stealth_new, stealth_premium, stealth_premium_headful, use_js_render, js_wait_for, js_scroll, js_actions[].action, js_actions[].selector, js_actions[].ms, js_actions[].text, js_actions[].timeout, js_actions[].y, js_actions[].script, solve_captcha, session_id, session_ttl, formats, only_main_content, raw_output, extract_rules, extract_schema, extract_prompt, ai_content_mode
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/scrape

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with a valid email address who is at least 18 years old (or the age of majority in their jurisdiction)

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

success, target status code, response headers, response body, page HTML, page markdown, page text, page links, extracted data, page metadata, response content type, URL, final URL, response time, proxy country, credits consumed, CAPTCHA detected, CAPTCHA type, CAPTCHA solved

## FineData's plans (8)

- [FineData, free, POST /api/v1/scrape, Scrape URL](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/finedata/free-post-api-v1-scrape-scrape-url/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [FineData, free trial, POST /api/v1/scrape, Scrape URL](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/finedata/free-trial-post-api-v1-scrape-scrape-url/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [FineData, pay as you go, PAYG, POST /api/v1/scrape, Scrape URL](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/finedata/pay-as-you-go-payg-post-api-v1-scrape-scrape-url/llms.txt): $0.55 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [FineData, $47 monthly, Personal, POST /api/v1/scrape, Scrape URL](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/finedata/47-monthly-personal-post-api-v1-scrape-scrape-url/llms.txt): $0.47 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [FineData, $142 monthly, Team S, POST /api/v1/scrape, Scrape URL](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/finedata/142-monthly-team-s-post-api-v1-scrape-scrape-url/llms.txt): $0.142 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [FineData, $284 monthly, Team M, POST /api/v1/scrape, Scrape URL](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/finedata/284-monthly-team-m-post-api-v1-scrape-scrape-url/llms.txt): $0.095 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [FineData, $399 monthly, Team L, POST /api/v1/scrape, Scrape URL](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/finedata/399-monthly-team-l-post-api-v1-scrape-scrape-url/llms.txt): $0.08 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [FineData, $699 monthly, Scaling, POST /api/v1/scrape, Scrape URL](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/finedata/699-monthly-scaling-post-api-v1-scrape-scrape-url/llms.txt): $0.07 per 1,000, 71% complete, live

## FineData's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /api/v1/scrape`, Scrape URL: [FineData, free, POST /api/v1/scrape, Scrape URL](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/finedata/free-post-api-v1-scrape-scrape-url/llms.txt)
- `POST /api/v1/scrape`, Scrape URL, full: [FineData, free, POST /api/v1/scrape, Scrape URL, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/finedata/free-post-api-v1-scrape-scrape-url-full/llms.txt)

## FineData's APIs (2)

- [FineData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/finedata/free-free/llms.txt)
- [FineData: web scraping API pricing, 8 plans, POST /api/v1/scrape, Scrape URL](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/finedata/free-post-api-v1-scrape-scrape-url/llms.txt)

## FineData: web scraping API alternatives

- [ScrapeOps, $699 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapeops/699-monthly/llms.txt): $0.07 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Scrape.do, $699 monthly, Advanced, GET /, Web Scraping API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrape-do/699-monthly-advanced-get-web-scraping-api/llms.txt): $0.07 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Scrapestack, $839.88 yearly, Professional, GET /scrape, Scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapestack/839-88-yearly-professional-get-scrape-scrape/llms.txt): $0.07 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Zenscrape, $349.99 monthly, Professional, GET /api/v1/get, Web Scraping API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/zenscrape/349-99-monthly-professional-get-api-v1-get-web-scraping-api/llms.txt): $0.07 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 2026-11-01.

- https://api.finedata.ai/api-reference
- https://api.finedata.ai/openapi.json
- https://finedata.ai
- https://finedata.ai/docs
- https://finedata.ai/legal/acceptable-use
- https://finedata.ai/legal/privacy
- https://finedata.ai/legal/terms