# Writ, free, POST /api/crawl/scrape: Web scraping API

> Turn any website into an API. Tell Writ what you need from the site, and get a tested API your code, AI assistant or schedule can call again and again.

Writ's Free plan for the web scraping API costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. Writ's docs list 2 of the 7 fields on our checklist: Markdown, HTML.
We haven't run Writ through [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 2,648 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.996 per 1,000 pages or less. [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/writ/free-post-api-crawl-scrape
- [Web scraping API: 140+ scraper providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://usewrit.app/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.usewrit.app/api/crawl/scrape`
- API key: with the plan, on https://usewrit.app/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://usewrit.app/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing#read-a-page
- Sold by: Writ (https://usewrit.app?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 29%
- Markdown: ✓
- HTML: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: Start a build · from the same budget: Call a published endpoint · Run a workflow · Start a harvest · Run a saved harvest · Check now · Start a session · Run a listing

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Turn any website into an API. Tell Writ what you need from the site, and get a tested API your code, AI assistant or schedule can call again and again.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: The Service automates browser actions against third-party websites. You are responsible for ensuring your use is lawful and authorized for each site you target. You may not: Collect or extract data in violation of a target website's terms of service or applicable law. Defeat technical access restrictions or paywalls you are not authorized to pass. Send request volumes that overload, degrade, or disrupt a target website. Collect personal data without a lawful basis or required consent. [...] Your data is yours. We do not sell it or train models on your runs.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 200 credits a month
- Enough for: 200 calls a month
- Expires: Nothing rolls over on Free, the 1,000 signup credits lapse 90 days after signup

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.17
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: url. Optional: format, render_mode, persona_id, use_residential
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/crawl/scrape

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with a verified email address

## The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

page URL, page title, page markdown, page HTML, format, character count, raw token estimate, clean token estimate

## Writ's plans (12)

- [Writ, free, POST /api/crawl/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/writ/free-post-api-crawl-scrape/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Writ, free, Keyless](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/writ/free-keyless/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Writ, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/writ/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Writ, $15 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/writ/15-monthly/llms.txt): $0.75 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Writ, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/writ/49-monthly/llms.txt): $0.754 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Writ, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/writ/199-monthly/llms.txt): $0.765 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Writ, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/writ/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.768 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Writ, $150 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/writ/150-yearly/llms.txt): $0.625 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Writ, $490 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/writ/490-yearly/llms.txt): $0.628 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Writ, $1,990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/writ/1990-yearly/llms.txt): $0.638 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Writ, $4,990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/writ/4990-yearly/llms.txt): $0.64 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Writ, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/writ/contact-us/llms.txt): 29% complete, live

## Writ's calls (2)

- `POST /api/crawl/scrape`: [Writ, free, POST /api/crawl/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/writ/free-post-api-crawl-scrape/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/keyless/scrape`: [Writ, free, Keyless](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/writ/free-keyless/llms.txt)

## Writ's APIs (1)

- [Writ: web scraping API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/writ/free-post-api-crawl-scrape/llms.txt)

## Writ: web scraping API alternatives

- [Thunderbit, $3,000 yearly, Pro, POST /distill, Distill Single Page](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/thunderbit/3000-yearly-pro-post-distill-distill-single-page/llms.txt): $0.625 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [Browserless, $300 yearly, Prototyping, POST /smart-scrape, Smart Scrape API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/browserless/300-yearly-prototyping-post-smart-scrape-smart-scrape-api/llms.txt): $0.625 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [Search1API, $499 pack, Pay as you go, $499 (+60% bonus), POST /crawl](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/search1api/499-pack-pay-as-you-go-499-60-bonus-post-crawl/llms.txt): $0.625 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [APIVerve, $2,999.90 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apiverve/2999-90-yearly/llms.txt): $0.625 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 2026-11-07.

- https://usewrit.app?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://usewrit.app/acceptable-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://usewrit.app/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://usewrit.app/docs/billing-wallet.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://usewrit.app/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://usewrit.app/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing