# Scrooge Tool Mill, free: Web scraping API

> Extract public HTML page metadata for agents: title, description, canonical URL, Open Graph image, language, and a ~500-character plaintext excerpt.

Scrooge Tool Mill's Free trial plan for the web scraping API costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. We check each provider's docs for 7 fields: Screenshot, Markdown, HTML, Text and 3 more. Scrooge Tool Mill's docs list none of the 7.
In [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt), the best plan from Scrooge Tool Mill scores 18.7 out of 100. Scrooge Tool Mill ranks 173rd of 173 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 2,948 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 or less per 1,000 pages. [See the best free web scraping API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
[LinkPreview's $25 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkpreview/25-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.
[Scrappey](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v1-direct-request/llms.txt), [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) and [APIFreaks](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apifreaks/100-monthly-monthly-1500000-credits-post-scraping-web-scraper-api/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrooge-tool-mill/free
- [Web scraping API: best scraper providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrooge-x402-tool-mill.vercel.app/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://scrooge-x402-tool-mill.vercel.app/v1/page-meta`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://scrooge-x402-tool-mill.vercel.app/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing#/paths/~1v1~1page-meta
- Sold by: Scrooge Tool Mill (https://scrooge-x402-tool-mill.vercel.app?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Extract public HTML page metadata for agents: title, description, canonical URL, Open Graph image, language, and a ~500-character plaintext excerpt.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1 request a day
- Enough for: 1 call a day

## Rate limit

- Per day: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 1.50 s

## The call

- You send: url
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/page-meta

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: anyone, one free call per IP address per Bangkok day, with no account or API key

## The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

URL, title, description, canonical URL, Open Graph image, language, excerpt

## Scrooge Tool Mill's plans (2)

- [Scrooge Tool Mill, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrooge-tool-mill/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrooge Tool Mill, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, POST /v1/page-meta](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrooge-tool-mill/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-post-v1-page-meta/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 0% complete

## Scrooge Tool Mill's calls for this API (5)

- `POST /v1/page-meta`: [Scrooge Tool Mill, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrooge-tool-mill/free/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/batch-meta`: [Scrooge Tool Mill, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, POST /v1/batch-meta](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrooge-tool-mill/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-post-v1-batch-meta/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/link-graph`: [Scrooge Tool Mill, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, POST /v1/link-graph](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrooge-tool-mill/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-post-v1-link-graph/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/readable-text`: [Scrooge Tool Mill, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, POST /v1/readable-text](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrooge-tool-mill/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-post-v1-readable-text/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/structured-data`: [Scrooge Tool Mill, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, POST /v1/structured-data](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrooge-tool-mill/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-post-v1-structured-data/llms.txt)

## Scrooge Tool Mill's APIs (2)

- [Scrooge Tool Mill: web scraping API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrooge-tool-mill/free/llms.txt)
- [Scrooge Tool Mill: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/scrooge-tool-mill/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Scrooge Tool Mill: web scraping API alternatives

- [WebScraping.AI, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, GET /text, Get Page Text, residential proxy, no JS rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscraping-ai/top-up-from-20-pay-as-you-go-get-text-get-page-text-residential-proxy-no-js-rendering/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [APIFreaks, $500 monthly, Monthly 10,000,000 credits, POST /scraping, Web Scraper API, JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apifreaks/500-monthly-monthly-10000000-credits-post-scraping-web-scraper-api-javascript-rendering/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [AlterLab, top-up from $10, Deposit $10, POST /api/v1/scrape, Scrape a web page, Protected](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/alterlab/top-up-from-10-deposit-10-post-api-v1-scrape-scrape-a-web-page-protected/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Webclaw, $20 pack, Growth credit pack, 10,000 credits, POST /v1/batch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webclaw/20-pack-growth-credit-pack-10000-credits-post-v1-batch/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 71% complete, 1 hour
- [MDataAccess, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/mdataaccess/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 0% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.

- https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://scrooge-x402-tool-mill.vercel.app/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://scrooge-x402-tool-mill.vercel.app/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://scrooge-x402-tool-mill.vercel.app/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://scrooge-x402-tool-mill.vercel.app/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing