# ScrapingCow — Web scraping on your schedule

> ScrapingCow is a web scraping API and dashboard for developers who need direct HTML fetching, asynchronous jobs, and recurring requests.

Fetch HTML, track asynchronous jobs, and schedule repeat requests with one API. The dashboard manages jobs, interval and cron schedules, expiring API keys, workspace memberships, and account passwords.

- [Sign up for access](https://dash.scrapingcow.com/signup): Request a workspace; accounts are created after operator review.
- [Log in](https://dash.scrapingcow.com/): Open an existing workspace.
- [Developer guide](https://scrapingcow.com/developers/index.md): Authentication and request examples.
- [OpenAPI specification](https://api.scrapingcow.com/openapi.json): Published API contract.

## Available workflows

Fetch a page with GET /api/v1 and render_js=false. Queue a durable job with POST /platform/v1/jobs, inspect its status and attempts, then download the result. Create recurring jobs with interval or cron schedules through POST /platform/v1/schedules.

## Questions

### What is ScrapingCow?

ScrapingCow is a web scraping API and dashboard for developers. Fetch HTML over HTTP, queue asynchronous jobs, and run recurring requests on an interval or cron schedule.

### How do I get an API key?

Request access using Sign up. Once an operator creates your workspace, log in to the dashboard. Workspace owners can create an expiring key under API keys; members and viewers should ask an owner. Send the key in the Authorization header of API requests.

### Can I schedule recurring scraping jobs?

Yes. Create interval or cron schedules in the dashboard, including timezone, overlap and misfire policies, jitter, concurrency and catch-up limits, run and result retention, and webhook delivery selection. You can also pause, resume, trigger a run, and inspect recent runs. The API exposes the same schedule operations.

### Does ScrapingCow render JavaScript?

Browser rendering is not available in this release. Use direct HTTP fetching for pages that provide their content in the HTML response, with render_js=false.

### Is ScrapingCow a drop-in ScrapingBee replacement?

No. Some endpoint paths follow the ScrapingBee API contract, but full behavioral compatibility is incomplete. Check the documentation before migrating an integration.

### What does ScrapingCow cost?

Monthly plans start at $19 for 75,000 API credits. [Compare plans](https://scrapingcow.com/pricing/) and review billing from your dashboard. New workspaces receive 1,000 free credits; accounts require operator review. Paid Stripe checkout is currently disabled/unconfigured and must be activated by the workspace operator.