Raw HTML scraping gives you the entire page source that still needs parsing. ScrapingAnt's AI extraction accepts a natural language description of what data you want, like 'product title, price, description', and returns only those fields in structured format. No CSS selectors or post-processing required. The AI handles layout interpretation.

Yes. The agent can specify a wait_for_selector parameter with a CSS selector like '#product-list'. ScrapingAnt's Chrome instance waits until that element appears in the DOM before capturing the page. This is essential for React, Vue, and Angular apps where content loads asynchronously after the initial page render.

ScrapingAnt offers both datacenter and residential proxies across multiple countries. Datacenter proxies are faster and more cost-effective for standard sites. Residential proxies provide higher success rates against strict anti-bot measures. The agent selects the proxy type based on the target site's protection level.

No. All scraping and extraction happens in real-time during conversations. Page content, extracted fields, and Markdown output are used solely to generate the agent's response. Tars does not maintain a persistent database of scraped content. Each request is independent and ephemeral.

Yes. The agent passes a Base64-encoded JavaScript snippet to ScrapingAnt. The script executes in the Chrome instance after the page loads, enabling actions like clicking 'Load More' buttons, dismissing popups, or scrolling to trigger lazy-loaded content before the page state is captured.

ScrapingAnt's Markdown endpoint intelligently strips navigation bars, sidebars, advertisements, and footer boilerplate. It preserves the main content body with proper heading hierarchy, links, and formatting. The result is clean text optimized for LLM consumption and retrieval-augmented generation systems.

ScrapingAnt is primarily a scraping infrastructure provider with Chrome rendering, proxy rotation, and anti-bot bypass. ScrapeGraphAI focuses on AI-first extraction using LLMs for semantic understanding. ScrapingAnt also offers AI extraction but excels at reliability and raw page fetching at scale.

Yes. The agent passes cookie strings to ScrapingAnt in the format 'session_id=123; user_id=abc'. These cookies are included in the Chrome request, maintaining session state for authenticated pages. This enables scraping behind login walls when you provide valid session credentials.