No infrastructure needed – Zyte’s managed remote browser engine renders dynamic content, handles CAPTCHAs and pacifies bot blockers with just one API call.
Zyte’s managed browser renders JavaScript and returns full HTML – no libraries, no infrastructure, just one parameter.
Don’t be a puppet master. Scroll, click, type, screenshot and more using pre-built actions or custom scripts.
Zyte’s smart anti-block engine automatically escalates complex scraping jobs to a remote browser session – no intervention needed.
Our headless browser power is easy to control using a simple API call.
1from base64 import b64decode
2
3import requests
4
5api_response = requests.post(
6 "https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract",
7 auth=("YOUR_ZYTE_API_KEY", ""),
8 json={
9 "url": "https://toscrape.com",
10 "httpResponseBody": True,
11 },
12)
13body: bytes = b64decode(api_response.json()["httpResponseBody"])Our browser features sit on Zyte's best-in-class web scraping API.
No more managing sessions, proxies, or retries. Zyte API handles anti-bot defenses on the fly, so you can focus on the data, not the plumbing.
Read moreNo more parsing page data manually. Zyte API can identify and return complex data without having to specify on-page selectors.
Read moreStop painful setup and maintenance.
Zyte API´s remote managed browsers remove the hard stuff while retaining power.
Built for scraping from the ground up, our browsers are virtually undetectable, especially when combined with our patented proxy technologies and infrastructure.
When you want to 100x your requests, there is nothing to it. Simply send the requests and let us worry about the browser instances and compute.
No more libraries or backend queries. Get fully-rendered dynamic HTML on command with one simple parameter.
Proxy geo-location got you in a spin? Unlock country-specific content by showing target sites browser-based signals.
When you need a browser to handle a request, we have unlimited instances available on-demand, so you need not waste a second.
We host the latest browser, on servers optimized for web scraping, handling everything from rotating fingerprints to optimizing for response time and success rates.
Tricky sites screen-out plain HTTP requests. Silently gain access by effortlessly showing the credentials only a browser can.
Take the code out of on-page clicks and form submissions. Zyte´s actions abstract browser automation with simplicity.
No more cookie management misery – handle sessions and blockages caused by missing, misused or unpersisted cookies using simple ´get´ and ´set´ requests.
How Zyte API’s browser features compare.
| Self-hosted headless | Other hosted browsers | Zyte API | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built solely for scraping | ❌ Built for General Use (eg: QA). | ❌ Built for General Use (eg: QA). | ✅ 100% built, integrated and optimised for scraping performance. |
| Setup and maintenance | ❌ Difficult DIY. | ❌ Configuration needed. | ✅ Zero - Available on demand at any scale 24/7. |
| Scalability and cost control | ❌ High total cost of ownership. | ❌ Pricing models not designed for scraping at scale. | ✅ Auto scales and gets cheaper with higher volume - lowest cost of ownership. |
| Anti-ban handling | ✅ Can help with some sites with a lot of effort. | ✅ Can help but requires a lot of integration. | ✅ Highest success rates out of the box. |
| JS rendering | ✅ Yes. | ✅ Yes. | ✅ Yes. |
| Specialist skills needed | ❌ Yes. | ❌ Yes. | ✅ No. Just set BrowserHTML = true |
The results are in: Zyte customers love our products. Check out these views and reviews on independent sites.
Zyte was able to offer the most simple and effective rotating proxy solution for us. It just works.
Collaboration with Zyte has been easy and support was always there throughout our journey.
It was literally 5 lines of code to get started with Smart Proxy Manager and see crawling success.
Without Zyte Smart Proxy Manager our business is not successful.
Zyte API uses a browser only when it detects a block — not for every request. Fewer browser sessions means lower costs for you.
Simple sites are cheaper. Heavily protected ones cost more. You’re only charged based on the work actually required.
Every scraping project is different. We don’t lock you into rigid packages — you only pay for what your project actually needs.
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