Frequently Asked Questions

UltraWebScrapingAPI is a web scraping API that defeats advanced anti-bot protections like Akamai Bot Manager, Cloudflare Turnstile, and PerimeterX. Unlike generic scraping services, we manually analyze each target site and build custom bypass strategies, guaranteeing 90%+ success rate on sites where services like Bright Data and ScraperAPI fail.

Bright Data, ScraperAPI, and Oxylabs use generic proxy rotation — the same approach for every site. When advanced anti-bot systems like Akamai detect their patterns, they block all requests. UltraWebScrapingAPI takes a fundamentally different approach: we reverse-engineer each target site's specific anti-bot implementation and build a tailored bypass. That's why we succeed where they fail.

For every site we custom-analyze, we guarantee at least 90% of your scrape requests will succeed. This is a conservative floor — most sites achieve 99%+ success. We set the bar at 90% because the URLs you bring us are typically the hardest: the ones that already failed on Bright Data, ScraperAPI, and every other service. In practice, you'll see much higher success rates.

We charge $0.05 per request with no plans or subscriptions — just top up credits and scrape. Credits never expire. While our per-request price is higher than Bright Data's Web Unlocker ($0.001), Bright Data fails on anti-bot protected sites. On Akamai/DataDome sites, Bright Data's Scraping Browser costs ~$0.10/request with ~50% success (effective cost: ~$0.20/page). We cost $0.05 with 99.9% success — 4x cheaper in practice.

Yes. Site analysis is free — no extra fees. When you purchase credits, our team will reverse-engineer your target sites' anti-bot protections and build tailored bypass strategies. Once analyzed, these sites will achieve 99%+ success rate for all your API requests.

Yes! Our free playground lets you test any URL with our base scraping engine — no purchase required, just sign up. The playground uses our default engine without per-site customization, so success rates may be lower than what you'd get after purchasing. Even so, our base engine outperforms Bright Data and ScraperAPI on tough anti-bot sites.

UltraWebScrapingAPI can bypass Akamai Bot Manager, Cloudflare Bot Management, Cloudflare Turnstile, PerimeterX (HUMAN), DataDome, Kasada, Shape Security, and most other commercial anti-bot solutions. If there's a specific system you need bypassed, try our playground or contact us.

Yes. All scraping runs through real Chrome browsers (not headless), so JavaScript renders fully, cookies persist, and browser fingerprints match real users. You get the complete rendered HTML including dynamically loaded content.

In async mode, you submit up to 100 URLs at once and receive a subscription ID. You can poll the subscription endpoint for status, or register a webhook to get notified automatically when scraping completes. This is ideal for batch scraping large numbers of pages.

Failed scrapes are automatically retried up to 2 times. If they still fail, your credits are refunded automatically. You only pay for successful scrapes.