Geekflare

Geekflare is an API suite for web scraping, search and screenshots that returns LLM-ready Markdown, JSON or images. It handles proxies, JavaScript rendering and CAPTCHAs, offers an MCP server and SDKs, and has a free plan with 500 monthly credits.

Geekflare is a web data API platform aimed at developers and teams building AI agents, retrieval pipelines and automations. Its core products are a web scraping API, a search API and a screenshot API, backed by smaller utilities for meta tag extraction, DNS lookups and redirect tracing. The company positions it as a way to skip the work of running proxies, headless browsers and parsing rules, and receive output that can go straight into an application. In practice, a user registers for an API key, which is available immediately in the dashboard, then sends a request naming a URL and the output format wanted. The scraper can return Markdown tuned for language models, plain Markdown, HTML, JSON, a screenshot or a PDF. JavaScript rendering, CAPTCHA solving and anti-bot handling are part of the base scraping price. A proxy mode can try a direct request first and fall back to a proxy only when a site blocks it, and a country parameter lets requests appear to come from one of 194 countries, which helps with localized pricing or search results. The search API returns titles, links and snippets, with optional AI-grounded answers. A playground lets users test each endpoint before writing code, and request logs can be searched by URL, query or date. Access options cover several working styles. A remote MCP server exposes the tools to clients such as Claude, Cursor and Codex, official SDKs exist for Python and Node, and any other language can use plain REST. Workflow builders including Zapier, Make and n8n suit people who do not write code. Among alternatives, Geekflare competes with dedicated scraping and search APIs by bundling many endpoints under one credit pool with published prices. That suits teams that want a single vendor for several web data tasks, while teams needing large-scale crawling or niche extraction features should compare coverage carefully. The free tier of 500 monthly credits makes evaluation straightforward.