Scraping API
ScrapeUnblocker vs Zyte
Zyte is the company behind Scrapy, with Scrapy Cloud for hosting spiders and the Zyte API for unblocking. It is powerful and deeply Scrapy-native. We can speak to it from experience: we ran our own production spiders on Zyte Scrapy Cloud and migrated them to our own spider cloud in 2026. ScrapeUnblocker is the unblocking half of that story - a plain HTTP scraping API that returns the rendered page, framework-agnostic, with pay-per-success billing.
Zyte is built around Scrapy: if your whole pipeline lives in Scrapy and you want a managed place to run and schedule spiders, that integration is the point. ScrapeUnblocker does not assume a framework - it is one endpoint you call from Scrapy, requests, a cron job or an SDK, and it hands back HTML or parsed JSON. That is the difference between adopting a platform and adding a capability.
On the unblocking itself, we render through our own browser build and rotate exits by reputation, and we bill for successful requests with anti-bot soft-blocks returned free. If you only need "get me past the wall and give me the page", that is the whole product, with a 500-request free tier to compare on your own targets first.
Side by side
| Capability | ScrapeUnblocker | Zyte |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A framework-agnostic scraping API | Scrapy Cloud (hosting) + Zyte API (unblocking) |
| Best fit | Any stack - one HTTP call | Teams standardized on Scrapy |
| Rendering engine | Our own browser build + warm profile pool | Zyte API smart browser / proxies |
| Pricing model | Pay per successful request, soft-blocks free | Per request / subscription tiers |
| Structured data | Plugin endpoints return parsed JSON | Automatic extraction / Scrapy parsers |
| Free tier | 500 requests on signup, no card | Free trial |
When ScrapeUnblocker is the better pick
- You are not on Scrapy and do not want to adopt a whole platform.
- You want one unblocking endpoint you can call from anything.
- You want to pay for delivered pages, not blocked ones.
- You want structured JSON for popular sites without writing parsers.
Where they still make sense
- Your whole pipeline is Scrapy and you want managed hosting + scheduling for it.
- You want Zyte-native automatic extraction tied into Scrapy items.
Try it on your own targets
500 requests free on signup. No card, no sales call.