canonical: https://jentic.com/apis/scrapingdog.com/scrapingdog

# ScrapingDog API

ScrapingDog is a scalable web scraping API for data extraction. It provides proxy rotation, JavaScript rendering, and CAPTCHA handling capabilities. The API exposes 2 endpoints secured with apiKey authentication.

## For AI agents

Programmatically scrape web page (post), scrape web page. Covers 2 operations with apiKey authentication.

## Scope

Does not handle payments, communications, or crm - use for media and content only.

## Capabilities

- Scrape Web Page (POST)
- Manage media data programmatically
- Integrate ScrapingDog API into automated workflows
- Query and filter ScrapingDog API records by parameters
- Monitor ScrapingDog API operational status and events

## Use cases

### Media and Content Operations

Use the ScrapingDog API to perform media operations programmatically. The API provides 2 endpoints covering core functionality including scrape web page (post), scrape web page.

Example prompt: Call POST /scrape to scrape web page (post)

### Data Retrieval and Monitoring

Query ScrapingDog API resources on a schedule to track changes, generate alerts, or feed downstream dashboards. Agents poll relevant endpoints, compare against previous state, and trigger actions when thresholds are crossed.

Example prompt: Poll the primary ScrapingDog API endpoint, compare response to last known state, and alert if changed

### AI Agent Integration via Jentic

AI agents discover and call ScrapingDog API endpoints through Jentic without managing credentials directly. An agent searches for the required operation by intent, receives the matching endpoint schema, and executes the call with Jentic-managed authentication. This eliminates the need to read API documentation or handle apiKey tokens manually.

Example prompt: Search Jentic for 'scrape web page (post)', load the operation schema, and execute with Jentic-managed credentials

## Key endpoints

| Method | Path | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| POST | `/scrape` | Scrape Web Page (POST) |
| GET | `/scrape` | Scrape Web Page |

## Key resources

- **scrape** — Operations related to scrape

## Why Jentic

- **Setup:** Wiring the ScrapingDog API by hand means passing your api_key in the query string against api.scrapingdog.com and building your own retry handling for failed scrapes. Through Jentic you install once, import ScrapingDog from the API Directory, store the API key once, and your agent calls it.
- **Permission scoping:** ScrapingDog takes the target URL in the request rather than the path, so you limit the agent to the operations it needs, such as a GET or POST scrape. You choose the operations it may call, and any you leave out stay unavailable to the agent.
- **Credential handling:** Your ScrapingDog API key is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.
- **Discovery method:** Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'scrape a web page', and Jentic returns the matching ScrapingDog operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

## Related APIs

- **Cloudinary** — Alternative media API
- **Mux** — Alternative media API

## FAQ

### What authentication does the ScrapingDog API use?

The ScrapingDog API uses an API key passed in the `api_key` query. Through Jentic, these credentials are stored encrypted in your Jentic One instance and injected at execution time, so raw secrets never enter the agent context.

### Can I scrape web page (post) with the ScrapingDog API?

Yes. Use the POST /scrape endpoint. The API returns structured JSON responses that agents can parse and act on directly.

### What are the rate limits for the ScrapingDog API?

Rate limits are not specified in the OpenAPI spec. Check the vendor documentation for current limits. Through Jentic, rate limiting is handled automatically with retry logic built into the execution layer.

### How do I scrape web page (post) through Jentic?

Install the Jentic SDK with pip install jentic, authenticate through Jentic One, the self-hosted execution layer, then search for 'scrape web page (post)'. Jentic returns the matching ScrapingDog API operation with its input schema. Load the schema and execute the call - credentials are injected automatically.

### How many endpoints does the ScrapingDog API have?

The ScrapingDog API exposes 2 endpoints covering scrape operations.

### Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the ScrapingDog API?

Yes. Because you run Jentic One yourself and self-host it, your own rules decide which ScrapingDog operations your agent may call and which credentials it may use. ScrapingDog takes the target URL in the request rather than the path, so you can grant only the operations the agent needs, such as the GET /scrape or the POST /scrape, and any operation you leave out stays unavailable to the agent. Your ScrapingDog API key is stored once, encrypted by your own instance, and injected at execution time, so it never enters the agent's prompt or logs.