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Zyte

by Zyte Group Ltd · Platform · also known as Scrapinghub, Zyte API, Scrapy Cloud

Web-data company behind Scrapy offering Zyte API for ban-resistant fetching, browser rendering and automatic extraction, plus Scrapy Cloud for hosting spiders

ProprietaryUsage-basedPaidEnterpriseCloud
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Overview

Zyte, the company formerly known as Scrapinghub and long associated with the Scrapy framework, sells hosted web-data services. Zyte API is its main product: a single endpoint that fetches a page while handling bans and proxies, optionally renders it in a browser with scripted actions over CDP, and can return automatically extracted structured data (products, articles, job postings and other schemas) with custom attributes. It also offers a proxy mode, a search API with geo-targeting, screenshots through browser mode, and a web IDE for building and debugging requests and browser scripts. Scrapy Cloud hosts and schedules Scrapy spiders with logs, items and an API; legacy Smart Proxy Manager customers are pointed to Zyte API.

Pricing is pay-as-you-go per successful response, tiered by the difficulty of the target site and by whether a browser was used, with a free trial, optional monthly commitments for lower rates and enterprise discounts. Newer offerings include coding-agent add-ons and an MCP server.

Zyte suits teams already invested in Scrapy and organizations that want a managed extraction layer. It is proprietary (apart from Scrapy and related open-source libraries), the tiered pricing requires estimation per site, and automatic extraction quality varies by page type.

Editorial note on uncertainty. The Scrapinghub-to-Zyte rename is well documented historically but was not restated on the pages checked today.

Capabilities

  • Ban handling and proxy management in one API call
  • Browser rendering with scripted actions and screenshots
  • Automatic structured extraction for common page types
  • Search API with geo-targeting
  • Scrapy Cloud hosting and scheduling for spiders
  • Web IDE for building and debugging requests

Typical workflows

  1. Route a Scrapy spider through Zyte API for blocked sites
  2. Extract product data without writing parsers
  3. Host and schedule spiders on Scrapy Cloud

Strengths

  • Deep Scrapy integration
  • Pay per successful response
  • Automatic extraction reduces parser maintenance

Limitations

  • Proprietary beyond the open-source libraries
  • Tiered per-site pricing needs estimation
  • Automatic extraction quality varies

Prerequisites

  • Zyte account and API key

Who it is for

  • Scrapy users needing unblocking and hosting
  • Data teams wanting managed extraction

Alternatives & comparison

  • Apify

    Cloud platform and marketplace for running web-scraping and automation programs (Actors), with storages, proxies, scheduling, an API and an MCP server for agents

    MixedFreemium
  • Bright Data

    Web data platform combining residential, datacenter and ISP proxy networks with unblocking, SERP and scraper APIs, remote browsers, ready-made datasets and an MCP server

    ProprietaryFreemium
  • Scrapfly

    Web scraping API with anti-bot bypass, JavaScript rendering, cloud browsers, screenshots, AI extraction and a crawler, billed in credits per request

    ProprietaryFreemium
  • Scrapy

    Mature open-source Python framework for writing crawlers (spiders) that fetch pages asynchronously, extract structured items and export them through pipelines

    Open sourceOpen source
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Sources & verification

Primary sources consulted for this record. Claims are tied to the fields each source supports; the automated link checker re-verifies every URL on a schedule.

  • Official documentation
    Zyte API – Get started

    https://docs.zyte.com/zyte-api/get-started.html

    Supports: capabilities, description

    checked Nov 1, 2026
  • Official site
    Zyte

    https://www.zyte.com/

    Supports: name, summary

    checked Nov 1, 2026
  • Pricing page
    Zyte pricing

    https://www.zyte.com/pricing

    Supports: pricing_model

    checked Nov 1, 2026
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