How to Scrape Any Website with the Scrapling Agent

Arise · 2026-03-13 · 6 min read

Web Scraping in 2026 Is Broken — Until Now

Websites fight scrapers harder than ever. Cloudflare Turnstile, JavaScript-rendered SPAs, dynamic CSS selectors that change every deploy, anti-bot fingerprinting — a scraper that works today is broken next week.

Scrapling is an AI-powered web scraping agent that handles all of this automatically. You describe what you want extracted. It handles the rest — stealth mode, browser automation, adaptive selectors, session management.

What Scrapling Can Do

• Bypass Cloudflare and other bot detection systems automatically
• Scrape JavaScript-rendered SPAs (React, Vue, Angular) with full browser automation
• Adaptive selectors that survive website redesigns without breaking
• Session management for authenticated scraping behind login walls
• Multiple output formats — JSON, CSV, Markdown, plain text
• Scheduled scraping — run on a cron schedule, get results delivered
• Batch scraping — scrape hundreds of URLs in one command

Installation

Install the AgentPlace CLI, then install Scrapling:

curl -fsSL https://api.agentplace.sh/cli/install | bash
agentplace install scrapling

Basic Usage

Scrape a page and get the full content as Markdown:

agentplace run scrapling --url "https://example.com" --output markdown

Extract structured data with a CSS selector:

agentplace run scrapling \
  --url "https://news.ycombinator.com" \
  --selector ".titleline > a" \
  --output json

Handling Cloudflare-Protected Sites

For sites protected by Cloudflare, Turnstile, or similar systems, enable stealth mode:

agentplace run scrapling \
  --url "https://protected-site.com" \
  --stealth \
  --dynamic \
  --output json

The --stealth flag activates advanced fingerprint spoofing and browser automation. The --dynamic flag waits for JavaScript to fully render before extracting.

Authenticated Scraping

For sites that require login, Scrapling handles session management:

config = {
    "url": "https://app.example.com/dashboard",
    "session": {
        "login_url": "https://app.example.com/login",
        "credentials": {
            "username": "[email protected]",
            "password": "your-password"
        }
    },
    "selector": ".data-table",
    "output": "json"
}

agentplace run scrapling --config config.json

Adaptive Selectors

The most powerful feature of Scrapling. On first run, save the element fingerprint:

agentplace run scrapling \
  --url "https://shop.example.com/products" \
  --selector ".product-price" \
  --adaptive-save \
  --output json

Next time the website redesigns and the selector breaks, Scrapling automatically relocates the element using its saved fingerprint. No more broken scrapers after site updates.

Scheduled Scraping

Set up automatic scraping on a schedule:

agentplace run scrapling \
  --url "https://competitor.com/pricing" \
  --selector ".price-table" \
  --output json \
  --schedule "0 9 * * 1" \
  --notify email

This runs every Monday at 9am and emails you the extracted data — perfect for competitor price monitoring.

Output Formats

Scrapling vs Manual Scraping

Tips for Best Results

• Start with --dynamic for any modern website — most use JavaScript rendering
• Use --adaptive-save on first run of any recurring scrape to protect against redesigns
• Test selectors in Chrome DevTools before passing to Scrapling
• Use JSON output when piping data into other tools or databases
• Rate limit with --delay 2 to avoid triggering aggressive bot detection

Conclusion

Web scraping should not require hours of debugging anti-bot systems. Scrapling handles the infrastructure so you can focus on what to extract and what to do with the data.

Get Scrapling on AgentPlace