LinkDigest pricing: web scraping API, digest, Read a social link as text, full
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29% complete: 2 of the 7 fields on our checklistSee the 7 fields
$0.00per 1,000 pagesWe haven't run LinkDigest through our web scraping API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 2,491 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 per 1,000 pages or less. See how many web scraping API plans are free.GuGuData's CNY 83 (about $12) monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 pages. GuGuData's CNY 83 (about $12) monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many pages as GuGuData's rate limit allows.80legs's $29 monthly plan covers any number of pages. 80legs's $29 monthly plan costs more up front than GuGuData's CNY 83 (about $12) monthly plan.WebScraping.AI, ScraperAPI and Scrappey are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free one of LinkDigest's 6 plans
- FreeFree$0.00 per 1,000
- $1.50 pack, First top-upFirst top-up$150.00 per 1,000
- $5 pack, Credit packCredit pack$100.00 per 1,000
- CNY 288 pack, Volume pack for buyers in ChinaVolume pack for buyers in China$107.683 per 1,000
- $9 monthly, DevDev$90.00 per 1,000
- $49 monthly, StudioStudio$70.00 per 1,000
Call:
POST /, Read a social link as text, full one of LinkDigest's 4 calls for this APIPOST /, Read a social link as textFree$0.00 per 1,000api/ v1/ digest POST /, Read a social link as text, fullFree$0.00 per 1,000api/ v1/ digest POST /, Read up to 200 links at onceFree$0.00 per 1,000api/ v1/ digest/ batch POST /, Read up to 200 links at once, fullFree$0.00 per 1,000api/ v1/ digest/ batch
API: Web scraping API one of LinkDigest's 6 APIs
- Video search API
- Bilibili video API
POST /, Read a social link as textapi/ v1/ digest - Bilibili video API
POST /, Read a social link as text, fullapi/ v1/ digest - Bilibili video API
POST /, Read up to 200 links at onceapi/ v1/ digest/ batch - Bilibili video API
POST /, Read up to 200 links at once, fullapi/ v1/ digest/ batch - Douyin video API
POST /, Read a social link as textapi/ v1/ digest - Douyin video API
POST /, Read a social link as text, fullapi/ v1/ digest - Douyin video API
POST /, Read up to 200 links at onceapi/ v1/ digest/ batch - Douyin video API
POST /, Read up to 200 links at once, fullapi/ v1/ digest/ batch - Web scraping API
- Weibo post API
POST /, Read a social link as textapi/ v1/ digest - Weibo post API
POST /, Read a social link as text, fullapi/ v1/ digest - Weibo post API
POST /, Read up to 200 links at onceapi/ v1/ digest/ batch - Weibo post API
POST /, Read up to 200 links at once, fullapi/ v1/ digest/ batch - Xiaohongshu note API
POST /, Read a social link as textapi/ v1/ digest - Xiaohongshu note API
POST /, Read a social link as text, fullapi/ v1/ digest - Xiaohongshu note API
POST /, Read up to 200 links at onceapi/ v1/ digest/ batch - Xiaohongshu note API
POST /, Read up to 200 links at once, fullapi/ v1/ digest/ batch
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 2 of the 7 fields on our checklist. Markdown, Links.
- Nothing to pay. You get 10 credits, enough for 2 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
- One call. You call
POST /. You sendapi/ v1/ digest url,translate_andto ask. You setbreakdownto "true" andinsightto "true". You can also sendformat,max_,credits partial_andok depth. The call returns the answer when the provider is quick. When the provider is slow, the call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done. - Who can get it: anyone who signs in, no card. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
LinkDigest: web scraping API alternatives
LinkDigest alternatives: other web scraping API providers by price
The table starts with LinkDigest's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 pages closest to LinkDigest's.
| LinkDigest, $49 monthly, Studio, POST /api/v1/digest, Read a social link as text, full | Urlbox, $519 monthly, Business (8,000 renders a month), POST /v1/render/sync | Browshot, $2 pack | Suprsonic, $29 monthly, Pro, POST /v1/scrape, Scrape, thorough | Scrappy, $29 pack | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 pages | $70.00 | $64.875 | $66.667 | $72.50 | $72.50 |
| Completeness | 29% | 0% | 14% | 43% | 14% |
| Billing | monthly | monthly | pay first | monthly | pay first |
| Pay | $49 | $519 | $2 | $29 | $29 |
| Enough for | 700 calls a month | 8,000 calls a month | 30 calls | 400 calls a month | 400 calls |
| Freshness | unknown | live | unknown | live | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone | anyone, its 3-month trial is on application | anyone | anyone | anyone |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Screenshot, not in the answer
- Markdown
- HTML, not in the answer
- Text, not in the answer
- Summary, not in the answer
- Links
- Images, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 pages | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Repeat free | no limit |
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| Also pays for | from the same budget: POST /digest/batch · POST /capture · POST /search · POST /watch |
| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Article text and metadata. |
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| Keep data | no limit |
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| Use data | Digest public content you have a legitimate reason to read. Do not use LinkDigest to circumvent access controls, to bulk-harvest a platform, or to process content you are barred from accessing. We may suspend keys used this way. [...] You are responsible for how you use a digest, including any copyright or platform terms that apply to the source post. |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 10 credits |
| Enough for | 2 calls |
| Per second | 0.017 |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call or by polling |
|---|---|
| Median | 9.00 s |
| You send | url, translate_to, breakdown "true", insight "true", ask. Optional: format, max_credits, partial_ok, depth |
|---|---|
| Method | POST |
| Path | /api/v1/digest |
| Plan | Free |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone who signs in, no card |
The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold
page title, author, published date, page markdown, key points, page links, image descriptions, source URL, credits used, credits remaining, from cache, translation, viral breakdown, consumer insight, answer to a question