POST/v1/scrape/stealth

Stealth Scraping API

Scrape protected sites with residential proxies and anti-bot bypass. Handle Cloudflare, Akamai, and rate limiters from $0.03/call.

Bypass anti-bot protections using residential proxies and advanced browser fingerprinting. For sites that block standard scrapers — Cloudflare, Akamai, and aggressive rate limiters.

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Try it live

Fill in the fields and hit Run to see a real response.

POST/v1/scrape/stealthscrape-stealth$0.03/call

Response

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

{
  "ok": true,
  "data": {
    "url": "https://protected-site.com/pricing",
    "statusCode": 200,
    "content": "# Pricing\n\n## Starter Plan\n$29/month...",
    "format": "markdown"
  }
}

Features

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Residential proxy network with geo-targeting

Requests route through a pool of residential IPs that look like real home users, not datacenter ranges sites routinely block. Choose the exit country to access geo-restricted content and region-specific pricing.

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Advanced browser fingerprint rotation

Each request rotates browser fingerprints — user agent, headers, and TLS signatures — so automated traffic blends in with organic visitors. This defeats the fingerprinting checks that flag and block ordinary scrapers.

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Bypasses Cloudflare, Akamai, and similar protections

The stealth stack is tuned to clear the anti-bot challenges and JavaScript checks used by Cloudflare, Akamai, and comparable services, so you reach content that returns 403s to standard scrapers.

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Full JS rendering included

Pages are rendered in a real browser as part of the stealth flow, so JavaScript-built content is captured automatically — no separate render step needed. You get both anti-bot evasion and SPA support in one call.

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Country-level proxy selection

Set the proxy country (US, UK, Germany, France) to view a site exactly as a local visitor would. Useful for localized prices, language variants, and geo-gated catalogs.

Use cases

Protected Site Scraping

Access content behind Cloudflare, Akamai, and other anti-bot systems that block standard scrapers.

Price Intelligence

Monitor competitor pricing on protected e-commerce sites that actively fight automated access.

Travel & Airline Data

Scrape flight prices and hotel rates from travel sites with aggressive anti-scraping measures.

Financial Data Collection

Gather publicly available financial data from sites with strict access controls.

Market Research at Scale

Collect data from sites that rate-limit or block datacenter IPs using rotating residential proxies.

Quick start

Copy this snippet and start making calls.

const res = await fetch('https://api.yepapi.com/v1/scrape/stealth', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com",
    "format": "markdown",
    "country": "us"
  }),
});
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

Stealth Scraping API to bypass anti-bot protection

The YepAPI Stealth Scraping API is built for sites that actively block automated traffic. It combines a residential proxy network, rotating browser fingerprints, and full JavaScript rendering to make your requests indistinguishable from a real user — clearing the anti-bot defenses that return 403s and CAPTCHAs to ordinary scrapers.

Reach for this endpoint when a target sits behind Cloudflare, Akamai, or an aggressive rate limiter, or when datacenter IPs get banned on sight. If a site doesn't fight back, the standard Web Scraping API or JavaScript Scraping API will do the job for a fraction of the price. Stealth is the heavy-duty option for the hardest targets.

What is an anti-bot bypass scraping API?

An anti-bot bypass scraping API is a service that retrieves pages from sites protected by systems like Cloudflare and Akamai, which are designed to detect and block automated requests. These defenses inspect IP reputation, browser fingerprints, TLS handshakes, and JavaScript challenges to tell bots from humans. A stealth scraping API answers each of those checks: it routes traffic through residential IPs that look like home connections, rotates realistic browser fingerprints, and renders the page in a real browser to pass JavaScript challenges. The result is access to publicly available content that simple HTTP scrapers can't reach because they get blocked before the page ever loads.

Build your own resilient scraper

Stealth scraping powers data collection on the toughest targets: competitor prices on protected e-commerce sites, flight and hotel rates on travel platforms with aggressive defenses, and public financial data behind strict access controls. Set the proxy country to see localized pricing, and let the residential network and fingerprint rotation handle the evasion. You get clean markdown back without building or maintaining your own proxy pool, browser farm, and fingerprinting logic — the parts of scraping that break most often and cost the most to run.

Stealth Scraping API pricing — from $0.03 per call

Stealth scraping costs $0.03 per call with no monthly minimum. That undercuts the enterprise vendors most teams turn to for this: ScrapingBee charges roughly $0.075 per call behind a $49/month minimum, Bright Data requires a $500/month minimum, and Oxylabs starts at $300/month. With YepAPI there's no contract and no floor — pay per request and access protected sites without a five-figure annual commitment.

Residential proxies versus datacenter IPs

Datacenter proxies are cheap but easy to spot — sites maintain blocklists of known datacenter ranges and ban them in bulk. Residential proxies route through real consumer ISP connections, so your requests carry the same IP reputation as ordinary visitors and pass checks datacenter traffic fails. Combined with fingerprint rotation, that's what lets this endpoint clear defenses the standard scrape endpoints can't, which is exactly why it's priced for the hardest jobs rather than everyday pages.

Try the Stealth Scraping API free

Get $5 in free credit at signup with no credit card — enough for over 160 stealth calls. Point it at the protected site that's been blocking you and confirm it gets through before you pay anything.

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Frequently asked questions

Bypass anti-bot protections using residential proxies and advanced browser fingerprinting. For sites that block standard scrapers — Cloudflare, Akamai, and aggressive rate limiters.

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/stealth. 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.