Everything ScrapingBee does,
plus the automation and AI
your team needs
Browserless gives you a production-grade scraping API with built-in stealth, headless browsers, and full automation support. You're not locked into a tool that stops at the basics.
Browserless
Browser infrastructure for teams building at scale. Handles web scraping, automation, and AI agent workflows through a single API, with eight years of reliability behind it.
ScrapingBee
A straightforward scraping API that handles the basics well. Designed for web scraping and JavaScript rendering, with limited support for anything beyond data extraction from simple and moderately protected sites.
How Browserless and ScrapingBee compare
Both tools let you start scraping quickly. Here's where they differ once your requirements get more demanding.
Browserless does more than just web scraping
When your workflows grow beyond scraping, Browserless scales with them.
ScrapingBee stops here
Browserless does all three through one API
Connect Browserless with your AI agents
Browserless's MCP server gives AI agents a stateful, controllable browser, so your models can navigate, interact, and extract across multi-step workflows, not just pull raw HTML from a URL.
Browser Agent
The browserless_agent MCP tool gives your AI assistant a persistent browser session it can navigate step by step: logging in, filling forms, clicking through paginated results, and keeping state across turns.
AI-powered extraction
Go beyond raw HTML. Browserless lets AI models reason about page content and extract structured data from complex, dynamic sites where CSS selectors and XPath patterns break.
Automate web workflows end to end
Connect Browserless to any MCP-compatible framework, including Claude, LangChain, and custom agents, to build workflows that interact with the web the way a human would, but at scale.
Works with the languages and frameworks you already use
Switching to Browserless doesn't mean rewriting your stack. If you're already using Puppeteer or Playwright, you're most of the way there, no proprietary SDK to depend on.
import requests
TOKEN = "YOUR_API_TOKEN"
BASE = "https://production-sfo.browserless.io"
response = requests.post(
f"{BASE}/content?token={TOKEN}",
json={"url": "https://example.com"}
)
print(response.text)Most ScrapingBee to Browserless migrations take less than a day
ScrapingBee wraps everything in its own API. Browserless gives you a direct connection to a real browser via Puppeteer, Playwright, or a clean REST API.
Swap the endpoint
The shape of the request is similar. You're replacing the API key parameter and moving the target URL into the request body. JavaScript rendering is on by default, so there's no render_js flag to remember.
Drop in proxy rotation
If you're using ScrapingBee's proxy mode, Browserless handles rotation automatically. Residential proxies are available on relevant plans for protected sites. Sessions, cookies, and browser state persist across requests.
Test before you commit
The free plan covers enough volume to run your existing scraping logic against your actual target pages, no credit card required.
BeforeScrapingBee REST API
import requests
params = {
"api_key": "YOUR_SCRAPINGBEE_KEY",
"url": "https://example.com",
"render_js": "true"
}
response = requests.get(
"https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/",
params=params
)
print(response.text)AfterBrowserless REST API
import requests
TOKEN = "YOUR_API_TOKEN"
BASE = "https://production-sfo.browserless.io"
response = requests.post(
f"{BASE}/content?token={TOKEN}",
json={"url": "https://example.com"}
)
print(response.text)Why teams trust Browserless at scale
Works well for straightforward use cases on simple targets. The gap shows up in production: when concurrency climbs, when a target site updates its anti-bot stack, when a single failed request cascades into pipeline failures at 2 AM.
Eight years of edge cases resolved, memory leak patterns addressed, and bot detection evasion kept current, so your team is debugging scraping logic, not infrastructure.
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