// fetch api Alpha

The world's cheapest Fetch API

Any public web page as Markdown, HTML, plain text or a full-page screenshot. Each request renders the page in a fresh browser behind a managed proxy, so pages built with JavaScript come back complete.

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$0.15 / 1K requestsPay as you go10 free calls, no card

// live playground

Fetch a page from your browser

The key below is created for this browser with 10 free calls and works on every Litescrape endpoint. Results are drawn the way the source shows them, with the JSON one click away.

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URL url

More options

Page

Render a public page in a fresh browser and return its content.

Format respond_withScreenshots return a base64 PNG.

Extraction

Target selector target_selectorCSS selector to extract, up to 2,048 characters. Falls back to the full page when nothing matches.Remove selector remove_selectorCSS selector removed before extraction, up to 2,048 characters.Links with_linksHow Markdown writes links.Images with_imagesHow Markdown writes images.Iframes with_iframeInclude direct child frames before extraction.Shadow DOM with_shadow_domExpand open shadow roots before extraction.

Browser

Wait until wait_untilNavigation event to wait for.Wait for selector wait_for_selectorCSS selector to wait for after navigation, up to 2,048 characters.Page timeout page_timeoutSeconds from 1 through 180 for browser operations.Locale localeBrowser locale, such as en-US.User agent user_agentOptional User-Agent, up to 1,024 characters.

# pip install httpx
import httpx

response = httpx.get(
    "https://api.litescrape.com/api/web/fetch",
    params={
        "url": "https://litescrape.com",
    },
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer ls_live_your_key"},
    timeout=120,
)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.json()["content"])

Ready

Run the request to draw its results here. This endpoint returns:

url
title
content
status_code

// what you get

What the Fetch API returns

Four output formats

respond_with takes markdown, html, text or screenshot. Screenshots arrive as a base64 PNG.

Keep or drop parts of the page

target_selector extracts one element and remove_selector strips navigation and footers before extraction.

Wait for the content you need

wait_until picks the navigation event and wait_for_selector holds until an element appears.

Markdown ready for a prompt

with_links and with_images set how links and images are written, from inline to dropped.

The origin status in every response

status_code reports what the site returned, so a rendered 404 page is easy to spot.

A fresh browser for every request

Cookies, storage and scripts are never shared between requests, and captures are not stored.

// use cases

What teams build with it

01
Page content for LLM context
Turn a URL your agent found into clean Markdown before it goes into the prompt.
02
Search, then read
Send the links from a Google Search call to Fetch and read the full pages with the same key.
03
Screenshots for monitoring
Capture a full-page PNG of a pricing or status page on a schedule and compare it over time.
04
Articles for a research pipeline
Extract the article body with target_selector and store the Markdown with its title and URL.

// why it's the cheapest

Fetch API pricing, per 1,000 requests

Public list prices for 100,000 requests a month, read on September 17, 2026. Litescrape's rate is flat at every volume.

Month-to-month list prices in USD. A provider that bills per record or per queued task shows how it bills instead of a per-request price.
Provider	Plan modeled	Per 1,000 requests	Monthly cost
Litescrape	Flat prepaid rate	$0.15	$15.00
ScrapingBee	Startup, 1,000,000 credits at 5 per JavaScript request	$0.50	$49.50
Firecrawl	Standard, 100,000 credits, billed yearly	$0.83	$83.00

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