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Scrapingant

Extracts clean markdown and structured data from any website to feed your LLM workflows, bypasses bot detection automatically, and monitors competitor pricing changes in real time.

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Why use Ceven?

  1. AI native Scrapingant integration

    • Describe the outcome and Ceven picks the right Scrapingant calls, fills the parameters, and checks the result.
    • Structured, agent friendly tool schemas so each call runs reliably instead of by guesswork.
    • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your Scrapingant data, across all 9 of its actions.

  2. Managed auth

    • Built in OAuth with automatic token refresh and rotation.
    • One place to manage, scope, and revoke Scrapingant access.
    • Per user and per environment credentials instead of shared keys.

  3. Agent optimized design

    • Actions are tuned from real success and error rates so reliability climbs over time.
    • Full execution logs so you always know what ran in Scrapingant, when, and on whose behalf.
    • The agent pauses and asks when Scrapingant is unclear instead of plowing ahead.

  4. Enterprise grade security

    • Fine grained access so you control which agents and people can reach Scrapingant.
    • Least privilege by default, read scopes first and only the writes a workflow needs.
    • A full audit trail of every Scrapingant action to support review and sign off.

Supported tools

Every action Ceven's agents can run on Scrapingant, and when to use it.

Extract Markdown
Use this when you need to pull page content and convert it to markdown for an LLM prompt or a RAG knowledge base.
Extract Data with AI
Pull specific structured data from a URL by providing a natural language query describing the fields you need.
Scrape Web Page
Fetch the raw HTML of a specified URL. Use this for custom parsing or when you need full page source code.
Get Extended JSON
Pull a richer JSON response including metadata and HTML from the v2 extended endpoint for deep page analysis.
Check API Credits
Pull the current credit usage and remaining balance for the account to prevent workflow interruptions.
Render JavaScript
Force a headless browser to execute JS before scraping. Use this for single page apps or dynamic content.
Rotate Proxies
Trigger a request using a different proxy IP to avoid rate limits or regional blocks on target sites.
Bypass CAPTCHA
Enable automated CAPTCHA solving for a specific scraping request to access protected content.
Set Wait Time
Tell the browser to wait a specific number of milliseconds before extracting data to ensure elements load.
Custom User Agent
Set a specific browser identity for the request to mimic different devices or browsers.
Extract Meta Tags
Pull only the meta tags and header information from a page for SEO audits or social preview checks.
Get Page Screenshots
Capture a visual image of the rendered page to verify that the scrape is seeing the correct content.
Extract Content as Markdown
This tool extracts content from a given url and converts it into markdown format. it is particularly useful for preparing text for language learning models (llms) and retrieval augmented generation (rag) systems. it supports get, post, put,
Get API Credits Usage
This tool retrieves the current api credit usage status for the authenticated scrapingant account. it enables users to monitor their consumption of api credits, check their current usage against the subscription limits, and manage their api
Scrape with Extended JSON Output
This tool scrapes a target url and returns an extended json response. it utilizes scrapingant's /v2/extended endpoint, providing richer information than the standard scraping tool, including page html, cookies, headers, and additional detai

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Frequently asked questions

ScrapingAnt uses a combination of rotating residential proxies and headless Chrome browsers to mimic real human behavior. When a request is made through Ceven, ScrapingAnt manages the IP rotation and handles the TLS fingerprints that most bot detectors look for. If a site uses Cloudflare or other advanced shields, the service employs automated CAPTCHA solving and browser spoofing to get through. This means your workflows do not break when a site updates its security settings because the proxy management happens at the API level rather than inside your specific agent logic.
A standard scrape returns the raw HTML or markdown of the page, leaving the parsing to your own logic or an LLM. AI extraction allows you to send a prompt along with the URL, such as extract the price and SKU of the main product. ScrapingAnt then processes the page and returns a clean JSON object with only those fields. This is significantly more efficient for large scale workflows because it reduces the number of tokens you send to your own LLM and ensures the data is structured for database entry.
Yes. Many modern websites are built as single page applications that do not load content until JavaScript runs in the browser. ScrapingAnt provides a headless Chrome environment that fully renders the page before the data is extracted. Within Ceven, you can specify the wait time to ensure that asynchronous API calls on the target page finish loading before the agent captures the HTML. This ensures that you get the actual content the user sees rather than a blank loading screen or a script tag.
Limits are based on your ScrapingAnt credit balance rather than a hard request count. Different actions cost different amounts of credits. For example, a simple HTML scrape is cheap, but using a headless browser or AI extraction consumes more credits because those tasks require more compute resources on their end. You can use the Get API Credits Usage action in Ceven to monitor your balance. If you run out of credits, the API will return a 402 error and your workflow will pause until the account is topped up.
Raw HTML is full of noise like script tags, style blocks, and nested divs that waste LLM tokens and confuse the model. ScrapingAnt converts the page into clean markdown, which preserves the structural hierarchy like headings and lists while removing the junk. This allows Ceven agents to process much longer pages within the context window and improves the accuracy of the agent when it needs to summarize a page or answer questions based on the web content.
Yes, ScrapingAnt supports proxy rotation across different regions. This is critical for workflows that need to check localized pricing or content that changes based on the visitor location. By configuring the proxy settings through the API, you can instruct the service to route the request through specific countries. This ensures that the data returned to your Ceven workflow reflects the local version of the site as seen by a user in that specific territory.
If you are using traditional CSS selectors, your scrape will likely fail or return empty data. However, if you use the AI extraction tool, the agent is much more resilient. Because the AI looks for the meaning of the data rather than the exact HTML path, it can usually find the price or product name even if the developer moved the element to a different div. This reduces the maintenance burden on your workflows and prevents your data pipelines from breaking during routine site updates.
While there is no strict character limit, extremely large pages can lead to timeouts or exceed the context window of the LLM you are using to process the data. ScrapingAnt handles the extraction, but the resulting payload must fit within the API response limits. For exceptionally large pages, it is recommended to use the AI extraction tool to filter for only the necessary data points on the server side, which prevents the Ceven agent from being overwhelmed by a massive HTML blob.

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