ScrapingAnt compatible

The call, before and after

# Before
curl -G https://api.scrapingant.com/v2/general \
  -H "x-api-key: $SCRAPINGANT_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping"

# After
curl -G https://api.specstream.ai/scrapingant/v2/general \
  -H "x-api-key: $SPECSTREAM_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping"

With ScrapingAnt's Python client, scrapingant-client 2.1.0, the change is one line before you build the client: scrapingant_client.client.SCRAPINGANT_API_BASE_URL = "https://api.specstream.ai/scrapingant/v2". Then ScrapingAntClient(token=SPECSTREAM_KEY), general_request() and markdown_request() run as before.

What the route reads, and what it refuses

Read and applied: url on /v2/general, /v2/extended and /v2/markdown, and the key in the x-api-key header the client sends or as the x-api-key parameter of the documented curl. A page the site does not have comes back with its own 404 in status_code.

Refused, in ScrapingAnt's {"detail"} form: a site that cannot be reached gets 404, a wrong key 403 and a missing key 422, as the client expects them. An account with no credit left gets 403, as on ScrapingAnt. Every parameter was measured on production on Nov 10, 2026, and the full pass table lists each one and its result.

What comes back

/v2/general returns the page's HTML. /v2/extended, which the Python client's general_request() reads, returns html, text and status_code, the page's own status, with cookies as an empty string. /v2/markdown returns url and markdown.

/v2/extended has no headers, xhrs or iframes, and the Ant-page-status-code and Ant-credits-cost response headers are not sent.

One price a page, no credits to count

On ScrapingAnt a page with the default browser takes 10 credits and a simple request 1. On SpecStream every page costs $0.0008, a failed page costs nothing, there is no plan to renew, and credit you buy never expires. A busy call gets 409, ScrapingAnt's status for too many requests at once, with Retry-After, and charges nothing.

Measured on the official benchmarks

The Extract API that reads each page scores 0.908 F1 on WCXB. Each call is one Extract API read of the page.

On SimpleQA Verified the SpecStream Search API scores 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 official questions, 978 of them correct. On WideSearch it scores 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on all 200 official tasks. The Extract API scores 0.908 F1 on WCXB. Every score and its method is on the benchmarks page.

You decide what is kept, on each key

Create the key with zero_retention and the pages it reads are not kept: the Extract API keeps the pages it returned for 7 days in the request log, and keeps none for a zero-retention key. spend_cap_cents is the most the key can spend.

curl -X POST https://api.specstream.ai/v1/account/keys \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPECSTREAM_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "production", "scopes": ["account:read", "finds:spend"], "spend_cap_cents": 500000, "zero_retention": true}'

Search, pages and rows on one key

The same key calls GET /v1/web-search, which returns up to 100 results for one search, at $5 per 1,000 searches of up to 10 results. Deep Search returns every match for a request in plain words as structured rows, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, with a source URL on every value. The most a run can cost is approved before it starts.

Scrape.do

A scraping API sold by monthly credits: Hobby is $29 for 250,000, and a rendered page takes 5 credits. SpecStream answers Scrape.do's own ?token=&url= call at /scrapedo, at $0.0008 a page with no plan.

ScrapingBee

A scraping API sold by monthly credits: Hobby is $19 for 75,000, and a request with JavaScript rendering costs 5 credits. SpecStream charges $0.0008 a page, and its credit never expires.

ScraperAPI

A scraping API on monthly plans: Hobby is $49 a month for 100,000 credits, and a standard page costs 1 credit. SpecStream charges $0.80 per 1,000 pages from a balance, and a failed page costs nothing.