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Scrapegraph Ai

ScrapeGraphAI is an AI-powered web scraping API that enables developers to extract structured data from any website using natural language prompts. Website https://scrapegraphai.com

Verdict

Scrapegraph AI turns web content into structured data your team can query. @mention it to scrape pages, crawl sites, or run AI-powered searches that return parsed results instead of raw HTML. Marketing teams pull competitor pricing, support teams extract FAQ content, researchers gather datasets from multiple sources. All jobs run async — you start a scrape, check status later, retrieve results when ready. Auth is straightforward (API key), but credit usage adds up fast on large crawls. Best for teams that need web data in a format AI can reason over, not just links.

Common use cases

  • Extract competitor pricing from product pages
  • Convert documentation sites to markdown archives
  • Scrape job listings for market research
  • Pull structured data from review sites
  • Crawl news sources for trend analysis

Integration

Vendor
Scrapegraph Ai
Category
other
Auth
API_KEY
Tools
10
Composio slug
scrapegraph_ai

Tools

  • Check SearchScraper Status

    Check the status and results of an asynchronous searchscraper job.

  • Convert Webpage to Markdown

    Tool to convert a specified webpage into clean, formatted markdown.

  • Get Credits

    Retrieve remaining and used credits for your scrapegraphai account.

  • Markdownify Status

    Check status and results of webpage-to-markdown conversion jobs.

  • Search Scraper

    Perform ai-powered web searches with structured, parsed results.

  • SmartCrawler Status

    Check status and results of smartcrawler web crawling jobs.

  • SmartScraper Status

    Check status and results of smartscraper web scraping jobs.

  • Start Smart Crawler

    Start ai-powered web crawling with structured data extraction across multiple pages.

  • Start Smart Scraper

    Start ai-powered web scraping with natural language extraction prompts.

  • Submit Feedback

    Submit feedback and ratings for completed scrapegraphai requests.

Setup

Setup guide

  1. 11. In Switchy, open your workspace settings and navigate to Integrations. 2. Search for Scrapegraph AI and click Connect. 3. You'll be prompted to enter your API key — get this from the Scrapegraph AI dashboard under Account > API Keys. 4. Paste the key into Switchy and click Authorize. 5. Switchy confirms the connection by checking your credit balance. 6. Open any Space and type '@Scrapegraph AI get credits' to verify the integration works. 7. To test a real scrape, try '@Scrapegraph AI convert this page to markdown: https://example.com' — the MCP returns a job ID, then you check status with '@Scrapegraph AI check markdownify status [job_id]'. 8. For multi-page crawls, use the SmartCrawler tool and specify a starting URL plus extraction schema. 9. Monitor your credit usage regularly — complex crawls consume credits quickly.

What teammates see: by default, memories from Scrapegraph Ai are scoped to the Space (PROJECT visibility) - you can mark any memory PRIVATE or share it ORG-wide.

Works well with

Top models

Compatibility data appears once enough Spaces have used this MCP together with a given model.

How Switchy teams use it

Not enough Spaces yet to publish anonymised usage stats (we require ≥ 50 Spaces per week).

Starter prompts

Check Remaining Credits

@Scrapegraph AI get my current credit balance and usage stats
Open in a Space →

Convert Page to Markdown

@Scrapegraph AI convert this URL to markdown: https://example.com/article. Return the job ID so I can check status.
Open in a Space →

Scrape Competitor Pricing

@Scrapegraph AI scrape https://competitor.com/pricing and extract plan names, prices, and feature lists into a structured format
Open in a Space →

AI-Powered Search Scrape

@Scrapegraph AI search for 'best project management tools 2024' and return structured results with titles, descriptions, and URLs
Open in a Space →

Crawl Documentation Site

@Scrapegraph AI start a smart crawler on https://docs.example.com with schema: extract page title, headings, and code blocks. Crawl up to 50 pages.
Open in a Space →

Example outputs

Illustrative - representative of the model's voice and quality, not literal recordings.

Prompt

@scrapegraph convert the latest TechCrunch article on AI funding to markdown and summarize the key points

Output

I've converted the article to markdown and extracted the content. The piece covers a $150M Series C round for an AI infrastructure startup, highlighting three key developments: enterprise adoption accelerating faster than consumer use cases, a shift toward specialized models over general-purpose LLMs, and increased scrutiny on energy costs for training. The markdown conversion preserved all headings, links, and formatting while stripping ads and navigation elements.

Notes

This example shows the markdownify tool paired with AI summarization. The conversion runs asynchronously — you'll need to check status if the page is large or complex. Useful for turning web content into clean, parseable text for further analysis, but note that dynamic content loaded by JavaScript may not be captured.

Prompt

@scrapegraph search for recent SEC filings mentioning 'cybersecurity incidents' and extract company names, filing dates, and incident descriptions

Output

I found 7 relevant filings from the past 30 days. Results include: Acme Corp (8-K, Jan 15) disclosed unauthorized access to customer email metadata; TechFlow Inc (10-Q, Jan 12) reported a ransomware attempt blocked by security controls; DataVault LLC (8-K, Jan 8) announced a third-party vendor breach affecting 12,000 records. Each entry includes the filing type, date, company name, and a structured summary of the incident disclosure extracted from the filing text.

Notes

This demonstrates the SearchScraper tool's ability to perform AI-powered searches with structured extraction. The tool parses results into consistent fields rather than raw HTML. Be aware this consumes credits per search query, and results depend on the search engine's index freshness — very recent filings may not appear immediately.

Prompt

@scrapegraph start a smart crawler on our competitor's documentation site and extract all API endpoint descriptions, rate limits, and authentication methods

Output

SmartCrawler job initiated (ID: scg_crawl_a8f2). The crawler will navigate up to 50 pages starting from the provided docs URL, following internal links and extracting structured data based on your schema. Estimated completion in 3-5 minutes depending on site responsiveness. I'll check the status and compile a comparison table once the crawl finishes, highlighting any endpoints we don't currently offer.

Notes

This showcases the SmartCrawler tool for multi-page data extraction. The crawl runs asynchronously and respects robots.txt by default. You define the extraction schema upfront (endpoint name, rate limit, auth type). Useful for competitive analysis or aggregating scattered documentation, but crawling large sites can consume significant credits and may trigger rate limiting on the target domain.

Use-case deep-dives

Competitive intel for product roadmap

When Scrapegraph Ai beats manual research for feature parity

A 6-person product team ships monthly and needs to track what 4-5 direct competitors launched in the last 30 days. Scrapegraph Ai's SmartCrawler is the right call here: point it at competitor changelog pages, extract structured release notes, and feed the markdown into a shared context for your next planning session. The AI-powered extraction handles varying page layouts without writing custom scrapers. The trade-off: you're burning API credits on every crawl, so this works best for weekly or bi-weekly checks, not real-time monitoring. If you need sub-hour freshness or are tracking 20-plus sites, you'll want a dedicated monitoring tool. For quarterly roadmap prep where you need clean, parseable competitor data in under an hour, Scrapegraph Ai delivers without engineering overhead.

Customer support knowledge base refresh

Why Scrapegraph Ai works for one-time doc migrations

A 3-person support team is migrating from Zendesk articles to Notion and needs 200 help docs converted to markdown in a single afternoon. Scrapegraph Ai's Convert Webpage to Markdown tool handles this in batch: feed it a list of URLs, get back clean markdown files, paste into Notion. The async job model means you're not babysitting browser tabs. The boundary: this is a migration play, not a sync strategy. If your source docs update weekly and you need ongoing two-way sync, you want a dedicated CMS connector. But for one-time lifts where you need structured output from messy HTML and don't want to write a scraper, Scrapegraph Ai gets you to done in hours instead of days. Check your credit balance first—200 pages will cost you.

Market research for fundraising deck

When Scrapegraph Ai's Search Scraper beats manual Googling

A 2-person founding team is building a Series A deck and needs 15 data points on market size, competitor funding, and pricing trends. Scrapegraph Ai's Search Scraper runs AI-powered queries and returns structured, parsed results instead of raw search snippets. You get citations, extracted facts, and markdown summaries in one API call. This beats manual research when you need defensible numbers fast and don't have an analyst on staff. The limit: search results are only as current as the web index, so if you need proprietary data or paywalled reports, this won't crack them. For public web research where you'd otherwise spend 6 hours Googling and copy-pasting into a spreadsheet, Scrapegraph Ai collapses that to 30 minutes of prompt tuning and result review.

Frequently asked

What does the Scrapegraph AI MCP do in Switchy?

It lets your team extract structured data from websites using AI-powered scraping tools. You can convert pages to markdown, crawl multiple URLs, run search queries that return parsed results, and check job status for async operations. All tools require a Scrapegraph AI API key and consume credits from your Scrapegraph account.

Do I need a paid Scrapegraph AI account to use this MCP?

Yes. The MCP authenticates with an API key tied to your Scrapegraph AI account, which operates on a credit system. You can check remaining credits via the Get Credits tool. Free-tier accounts exist but have tight rate limits; production use typically requires a paid plan.

Can this MCP scrape sites that block bots or require login?

Not reliably. Scrapegraph AI handles basic anti-bot measures better than raw requests, but sites with aggressive CAPTCHAs or authentication walls will fail. For logged-in content, you'd need to pass session cookies or tokens directly to Scrapegraph's API—something the MCP doesn't expose as a first-class feature.

How is this different from just calling Scrapegraph's API myself?

The MCP wraps Scrapegraph's REST endpoints so your AI agent can invoke scraping jobs conversationally without writing HTTP client code. You still pay Scrapegraph's per-request pricing. The trade-off: slightly higher latency and less control over retry logic compared to a custom integration.

Who on my team should connect the Scrapegraph AI MCP?

Whoever owns your Scrapegraph API key. Since all 10 tools share one key and draw from a single credit pool, treat this like a service account. If multiple people need scraping access, create separate Switchy workspaces or rotate the key carefully to avoid surprise credit depletion.

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