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  1. CSS selectors in, JSON out: the extract parameter explained with examples

    Name fields as CSS selectors and /v1/scrape returns them as JSON: attributes, lists, inner HTML, absolute links, up to 50 fields, no parsing code.

    · 2 min read

  2. Read Open Graph, Twitter card and JSON-LD metadata from any URL with one request

    /v1/metadata returns title, description, canonical, favicon, language, Open Graph and Twitter tags and every JSON-LD block from the head alone. One credit.

    · 2 min read

  3. Web scraping API vs writing your own scraper: which one for a side project, an agent, or a data pipeline

    Fetching pages yourself versus calling a scraping API: headers, JavaScript rendering, blocked sites, parsing, cost, and the cases where each one wins.

    · 3 min read