Welcome to BitFetcher

BitFetcher gets you data from the web without the infrastructure that usually comes with it. Websites block scrapers by their IP address, their browser fingerprint or their lack of JavaScript; we run the proxies and the browsers so that your requests look like a real visitor's, and you only write the part that matters to you: what to fetch and what to keep.

There are two ways to use it. Both share your API key and credits, the same proxy pools, and the same browser for pages that need JavaScript.

Scraping APIOne HTTP request per page. Send a URL, get back the HTML, a screenshot or extracted data. JavaScript rendering, browser actions, proxies and anti-bot handling are options of the same request.Hosted Browser BetaA browser you control over CDP. Connect Puppeteer or Playwright and click, type and navigate as you would locally, with a real device identity, the proxy you pick and matching geolocation.

Which one should I use?

	Scraping API	Hosted Browser (Beta)
You send	A URL, and options	Puppeteer or Playwright commands, over CDP
You get	The page: HTML, JSON, a screenshot or extracted data	A live browser session
Best for	Fetching many pages; adding scraping to any language with an HTTP client	Logins, multi-step flows, existing Puppeteer or Playwright code
Page interaction	A JavaScript Scenario: a list of actions in the request	Anything your script does
Billing	Per request	Per MB of traffic

Getting started

Sign up and copy your API key from the dashboard. Then make a first call with either product.

Scraping API

curl -G "https://api.bitfetcher.io/v1/" \
  -d api_key=YOUR_API_KEY \
  -d url=https://httpbin.io/anything

Hosted Browser (Puppeteer)

import puppeteer from 'puppeteer-core';

const res = await fetch('https://api.bitfetcher.io/v1/browsers?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' },
  body: JSON.stringify({ proxy: 'premium' }),
});
const { connect_url } = await res.json();

const browser = await puppeteer.connect({ browserWSEndpoint: connect_url, defaultViewport: null });
const [page] = await browser.pages();
await page.goto('https://httpbin.io/anything');
console.log(await page.content());
await browser.close();

Next: the Scraping API introduction, or the Hosted Browser quick start.