# Trawlia, free: Web scraping API

> Hand over a list of links and get readable text back, ready for research or your own retrieval pipeline.

Trawlia's web scraping API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns 2 of the 7 key fields we check: Text, Images.
We haven't run Trawlia through [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 1,913 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.
[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 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/trawlia/free
- [Web scraping API: 70+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://trawlia.co/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.trawlia.co/v1/extract`
- API key: with the plan, on https://trawlia.co/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://trawlia.co/docs/extract?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: Trawlia (https://trawlia.co?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 29%
- Text: ✓
- Images: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search, basic · Search, advanced · Search, basic, news · Search, advanced, news

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Hand over a list of links and get readable text back, ready for research or your own retrieval pipeline.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "Do not use Trawlia to: break the law, or help anyone else do so, collect personal data about individuals for surveillance, profiling, or harassment, reconstruct a bulk copy of any source we retrieve from, or resell raw results as a competing index, attack, overload, or probe the service or the sites it fetches from, evade credit limits, rate limits, or account suspension."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 5,000 results a month
- Expires: unused credits do not roll over

## Rate limit

- Batch: 20

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: urls. Optional: query, chunks_per_source, include_images, include_favicon, format, timeout, include_usage
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/extract

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone old enough to enter a contract where they live, one account per person or organisation

## The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, URL, page title, page content, content source, page images, favicon, response time, credits used

## Trawlia's plans (2)

- [Trawlia, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/trawlia/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 29% complete
- [Trawlia, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/trawlia/49-monthly/llms.txt): $1.225 per 1,000, 29% complete

## Trawlia's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v1/extract`: [Trawlia, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/trawlia/free/llms.txt)

## Trawlia's APIs (3)

- [Trawlia: web scraping API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/trawlia/free/llms.txt)
- [Trawlia: web search API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/trawlia/free-post-v1-search-search-advanced/llms.txt)
- [Trawlia: web search API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, basic](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/trawlia/free-post-v1-search-search-basic/llms.txt)
- [Trawlia: news API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, advanced, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/trawlia/free-post-v1-search-search-advanced-news/llms.txt)
- [Trawlia: news API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, basic, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/trawlia/free-post-v1-search-search-basic-news/llms.txt)

## Trawlia: web scraping API alternatives

- [Scrapingdog, $3,500 yearly, Premium, GET /scrape, Web Scraping API, premium proxy](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapingdog/3500-yearly-premium-get-scrape-web-scraping-api-premium-proxy/llms.txt): $1.215 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Oxylabs, $2,500 monthly, Enterprise, POST /v1/scrape, Scrape, JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/oxylabs/2500-monthly-enterprise-post-v1-scrape-scrape-javascript-rendering/llms.txt): $1.22 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [AnyCrawl, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/anycrawl/49-monthly/llms.txt): $1.225 per 1,000, 71% complete, stored
- [HasData, $590 yearly, Startup, POST /scrape/web, Web Scraping API, residential proxy](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/hasdata/590-yearly-startup-post-scrape-web-web-scraping-api-residential-proxy/llms.txt): $1.229 per 1,000, 71% 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://trawlia.co?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://trawlia.co/docs/extract?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://trawlia.co/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://trawlia.co/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://trawlia.co/privacy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://trawlia.co/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing