# Octocrawl, free, Without a key: Web scraping API

> Turn web pages into data your agents can use. Clean Markdown and structured data from public pages, each with a receipt.

Octocrawl's Without a key plan for the web scraping API costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. Octocrawl's docs list 4 of the 7 fields on our checklist: Markdown, HTML, Links, Images.
We ran Octocrawl in [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt). We didn't score any Octocrawl plan.
This plan is free. We rank 2,679 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.9999 or less per 1,000 pages. [See the best free web scraping API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
[LinkPreview's $8 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkpreview/8-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 pages. LinkPreview's web scraping API costs nothing beyond the plan price. [Spider Cloud's Pay as you go plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/top-up-from-1-pay-as-you-go-post-scrape-scrape/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 pages a month: $1.00.
[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), [Scrappey](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v1-direct-request/llms.txt) and [ScraperAPI](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scraperapi/299-monthly-business-get-sync-api/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/octocrawl/free-without-a-key
- [Web scraping API: best scraper providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://octocrawl.dev/docs/limits/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.octocrawl.dev/v1/scrape`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://octocrawl.dev/docs/scrape/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: Octocrawl, formerly W2L (https://octocrawl.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 57%
- Markdown: ✓
- HTML: ✓
- Links: ✓
- Images: ✓

## Price

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

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Turn web pages into data your agents can use. Clean Markdown and structured data from public pages, each with a receipt.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Do not use the preview to: Reach what is not public. Submit only pages anyone can open without signing in. [...] Get around access controls. Do not use it to bypass logins, paywalls, CAPTCHAs, verification pages or robots.txt. [...] Collect personal data. Do not use it to gather personal data for marketing, sales leads or profiling, or to track individuals. [...] Script the preview, or get around a daily limit. [...] Do not clear cookies, rotate addresses, make more than one account or share keys to get more than an allowance. Harm the service or other sites. Do not overload, probe or attack the preview or the sites it reads, or use it for anything unlawful. Misrepresent results. Do not present a blocked, incomplete or failed result as verified data. [...] The content of a page belongs to its owners. Your use of it must respect the site's own terms, copyright, and the law that applies to you. [...] Credits have no cash value and cannot be transferred.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 20 requests a day
- Enough for: 20 calls a day
- Expires: do not roll over

## Rate limit

- Per day: 20
- Per second: 0.17
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 2.42 s

## The call

- You send: url, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: formats, onlyMainContent, includeTags, excludeTags, fastMode, waitFor, timeout, maxFileBytes
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/scrape

## About the plan

- Plan: Without a key
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 34 fields the plan's answer can hold

URL, final URL, redirect chain, page status, HTTP status code, fetched at, fetch lane, robots.txt decision, page markdown, page links, page tables, page structured data, field evidence, cleaned page HTML, raw page HTML, page images, page attribute values, page list records, page title, page description, page language, page keywords, meta robots, page icon URL, canonical URL, Open Graph fields, scrape ID, content type, cache state, raw SHA-256, output SHA-256, extractor, readiness, file details

## Octocrawl's plans (3)

- [Octocrawl, free, Without a key](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/octocrawl/free-without-a-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [Octocrawl, free, With your account's key](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/octocrawl/free-with-your-account-s-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [Octocrawl, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/octocrawl/contact-us/llms.txt): 57% complete, live

## Octocrawl's calls (1)

- `POST /v1/scrape`: [Octocrawl, free, Without a key](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/octocrawl/free-without-a-key/llms.txt)

## Octocrawl's APIs (1)

- [Octocrawl (formerly W2L): web scraping API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/octocrawl/free-without-a-key/llms.txt)

## Octocrawl: web scraping API alternatives

- [WebScraping.AI, free, GET /text, Get Page Text, datacenter proxy, JS rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscraping-ai/free-get-text-get-page-text-datacenter-proxy-js-rendering/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Scrappey, free, POST /api/v1, Browser request](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/free-post-api-v1-browser-request/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [ScraperAPI, free plan, GET /, Sync API with screenshot](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scraperapi/free-plan-get-sync-api-with-screenshot/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [APIFreaks, free, One-Off 10,000 credits, POST /scraping, Web Scraper API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apifreaks/free-one-off-10000-credits-post-scraping-web-scraper-api/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Nimble, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/nimble/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 57% 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 2026-11-06.

- https://octocrawl.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://octocrawl.dev/docs/acceptable-use/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://octocrawl.dev/docs/limits/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://octocrawl.dev/docs/reference/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://octocrawl.dev/docs/scrape/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://octocrawl.dev/docs/terms/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/77777R7/Octocrawl/main/docs/hosted-api.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing