POST/v1/scrape/ai-extract

AI Scraping API

AI-powered data extraction from any page using natural language. No CSS selectors or XPath needed — just describe the data you want. From $0.03/call.

Tell the AI what data you want in plain English, and it extracts it from the page as structured JSON. No CSS selectors, no XPath, no fragile scraping scripts. Just describe what you need.

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POST/v1/scrape/ai-extractscrape-ai-extract$0.03/call

Response

Example response — hit "Send Request" to see a live result

{
  "ok": true,
  "data": {
    "url": "https://example.com/product/123",
    "extracted": {
      "productName": "Wireless Headphones Pro",
      "price": 149.99,
      "currency": "USD",
      "description": "Premium noise-cancelling wireless headphones with 30-hour battery life"
    }
  }
}

Features

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Natural language data extraction

Describe the data you want in plain English — "extract the product name, price, and description" — and the AI finds and returns it. No selectors, no markup knowledge, no scraping scripts to write.

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No CSS selectors or XPath needed

The model reads and understands the page directly, so you never write or maintain selectors. Sites can redesign their layout and your prompt keeps working as long as the content is still there.

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Returns structured JSON automatically

Output comes back as clean, structured JSON inferred from your prompt, with sensible field names and typed values like numbers and strings. The response is ready to store or process immediately.

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Optional JSON Schema for typed output

Supply a JSON Schema to lock the output into an exact shape with defined field names and types. Use it when downstream code needs a guaranteed structure rather than inferred fields.

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Handles complex, unstructured pages

The AI extracts from messy, inconsistent, or one-off pages where no reliable selector exists, pulling facts, quotes, and data points that rule-based scrapers can't reach.

Use cases

Product Data Pipelines

Extract product details from any e-commerce page by describing what you need — no per-site selector maintenance.

Lead Generation

Pull contact info, company details, and social links from business websites without writing site-specific scrapers.

Content Intelligence

Extract key facts, quotes, and data points from articles and reports using natural language queries.

Competitive Analysis

Gather pricing, features, and positioning data from competitor websites without brittle CSS selectors.

Research Automation

Turn any webpage into structured data by simply describing the information you need.

Quick start

Copy this snippet and start making calls.

const res = await fetch('https://api.yepapi.com/v1/scrape/ai-extract', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com",
    "prompt": "Extract the top 5 story titles and their URLs"
  }),
});
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

AI Scraping API — extract data with natural language

The YepAPI AI Scraping API extracts structured data from any webpage using plain-English instructions. Instead of writing CSS selectors or XPath, you describe what you want — "the product name, price, and availability" — and an LLM reads the page and returns clean JSON. There are no selectors to write, debug, or maintain, and no per-site scraping scripts.

This is the right endpoint for messy, varied, or frequently changing pages where rule-based scraping is fragile, and for jobs that span many different sites. For stable pages with predictable structure, the selector-based Data Extraction API is cheaper and faster; AI extraction trades a higher per-call price for the flexibility of never touching a selector again.

What is an AI web scraper?

An AI web scraper uses a large language model to read a webpage and pull out the data you describe in natural language, returning it as structured JSON. Traditional scrapers depend on CSS selectors or XPath that pinpoint exact elements — and break the moment a site changes its markup. An AI scraper understands the page semantically instead: you tell it what information you want, and it locates and structures that data regardless of the underlying HTML. This eliminates the most fragile and maintenance-heavy part of scraping. AI web scrapers shine on unstructured content, pages that vary site to site, and projects where you can't write a selector for every layout you'll encounter.

Build your own AI scraper

Send a URL and a prompt, and get back typed JSON — no scraping code at all. Build a product-data pipeline that works across any storefront without per-site selectors, a lead-gen tool that pulls contact and company details from arbitrary business sites, or a research agent that turns any article into structured facts. Add an optional JSON Schema when downstream code needs a guaranteed shape with fixed field names and types. Because the model understands content rather than markup, your extraction keeps working even after target sites redesign their pages.

AI Scraping API pricing — from $0.03 per call

AI-powered extraction costs $0.03 per call with no monthly minimum and no subscription. Firecrawl's AI extraction runs about $0.04 per call on a $19/month plan, and Clay starts at $149/month. With YepAPI you pay per request only — no plan to commit to — so you can run a handful of AI extractions for cents or scale to thousands while paying strictly for what you use.

When AI extraction beats selectors

Choose AI extraction when you're scraping many different sites, when target pages change layout often, or when the data is buried in unstructured prose that no clean selector can capture — like facts and quotes inside an article. The model adapts where rules can't. When pages are uniform and stable, the Data Extraction API delivers the same structured JSON faster and at a third of the price, so match the tool to how messy and variable your targets really are.

Try the AI Scraping API free

Get $5 in free credit at signup — no credit card needed — covering over 160 AI extraction calls. Try a few natural-language prompts against your own target pages and see the structured JSON before you pay.

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What developers say

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Frequently asked questions

Tell the AI what data you want in plain English, and it extracts it from the page as structured JSON. No CSS selectors, no XPath, no fragile scraping scripts. Just describe what you need.

Each API call costs $0.03. No monthly minimums or subscriptions — you only pay for what you use.

Sign up for a free API key, then send a POST request to /v1/scrape/ai-extract. Check the code example above for a ready-to-use snippet in JavaScript, cURL, or Python.

YepAPI bundles SEO, AI, and web scraping APIs under one key with no monthly minimums. You get lower per-call pricing, a unified dashboard, and one billing account instead of managing multiple providers.