scraperapi-agent-onboardinglisted

# ScraperAPI — Agent Onboarding ScraperAPI gives agents and apps reliable access to web data: any URL returned as clean HTML or markdown (with proxy rotation, CAPTCHA bypass, and JS rendering handled automatically), structured JSON from 20+ supported platforms (Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Redfin, Google SERP), and a crawler for multi-page extraction. This skill is the entry point. Read it once, pick a path, then hand off to the narrower skill that owns that path. ## Getting an API key All paths require a ScraperAPI key. If you don't have one: 1. Sign up at https://www.scraperapi.com/ — free trial includes 5,000 credits 2. Copy your key from https://dashboard.scraperapi.com/ 3. Set it in your environment — never hardcode it in code or configs: ```bash # macOS / Linux export SCRAPERAPI_API_KEY=<your-key> # Windows PowerShell $env:SCRAPERAPI_API_KEY = "<your-key>" # .env file SCRAPERAPI_API_KEY=... ``` Verify the key works before doing real work: ```bash curl "https://api.scraperapi.com/?api_key=$SCRAPERAPI_API_KEY&url=https://httpbin.org/ip" ``` A JSON response with an `origin` IP confirms the key is valid. A `401` means the key is wrong or inactive — do not retry with the same key, surface the error. --- ## Choose your path | Situation | Path | |-----------|------| | LLM agent needs web data **during this session** | **Path A** — MCP Server | | **Adding ScraperAPI to app code** | **Path B** — SDK / REST integration | | Quick request, or environment without Node/Python