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Scraping publicly available data is generally legal, but you must respect each site's terms of service, robots.txt, copyright, and privacy laws like GDPR/CCPA. Pry ships compliance tooling — consent recording, deletion requests, retention policies and audit logs — so you can build responsibly. Use it for legitimate purposes, keep rate limits civil, and don't hoover up personal data.

x402 is the HTTP 402 Payment Required standard, native to crypto. When a client hits a gated endpoint, Pry replies 402 with a price and the assets it accepts — USDC on Base, Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism and Polygon, and SOL/USDC/USDT on Solana. The client pays on-chain, a facilitator (Coinbase, PayAI or Cloudflare) verifies and settles the payment, and Pry returns your data. No signup, no KYC — the payment itself is the credential. High-volume users can instead buy a bulk scrape pack to skip the per-call round-trip and get discounted credits.

Self-host if you want full control, zero cost, and data that never leaves your infrastructure. Choose the hosted subscription if you'd rather not operate FlareSolverr, browsers, and proxies yourself — we run managed stealth, a residential proxy pool, dashboards and an SLA. The x402 pay-per-call lane sits in the middle: your code, our per-call billing.

Pry uses a 15-tier adaptive fallback ladder — direct HTTP with smart headers, TLS fingerprint randomization, cloudscraper, FlareSolverr, undetected Chrome, Camoufox stealth Firefox, Playwright, Googlebot mimicry, cookie pre-warming, behavioral biometrics, Tor, premium proxies, archive.org, Google Cache and a text-only fallback. It works on a large share of protected sites, but no scraper bypasses everything forever; specific sites and detection changes vary. The ladder is designed to try cheaper tiers first and only escalate when blocked.

The core engine is MIT open source and free to self-host, forever, with unlimited requests. The stealth/anti-detection module is source-available under BSL 1.1 — free for personal use, non-commercial open source, and 90-day evaluation, with a commercial license for production. Hosted tiers are optional. No dark patterns: the free tier is genuinely free.

Natively. Pry ships a spec-compliant MCP server over stdio, streamable HTTP and SSE — the hosted endpoint is https://api.pryscraper.com/mcp/ (streamable HTTP; SSE also served at /mcp/sse), so Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP client can scrape directly. Add your API key for the hosted API; every paid endpoint also speaks x402, so agents can pay per call without an account. There's also an mcp-config endpoint that emits ready-made client configuration.

Bulk scrape packs are prepaid credit packs for high-volume and scheduled work. A single crypto top-up buys a block of credits at a discounted effective per-call rate, and every request draws down the pack instead of paying per call via x402 — no per-request payment round-trip, and no KYC. Pick a pack when you're running cron monitors, agents or batch jobs, and hold onto credits across months.

Pricing starts at $0.003 per call for standard scrapes, with heavier operations (screenshots, crawls, OCR) priced individually in /v1/x402/pricing. You only pay for successful gates — health, docs, job management, and the payment flow itself are always free. Fail-closed guarantees mean a mispriced endpoint refuses traffic rather than silently leaking it free.

Sites requiring logins are out of scope for the core API (session persistence exists for cookie reuse, but credential auth isn't included). Aggressively geo-fenced content and hard CAPTCHA walls may need the premium-proxy tier. Everything else — JS-rendered SPAs, WAF-protected storefronts, document repositories — is what the ladder was built for.

Yes — Pry ships as Apify Actors generated from our open Actor Factory: universal scraping, site crawling, screenshots, change monitoring, LLM corpus building, SEO audits and more. Each runs on Apify's infrastructure with pay-per-event billing, so you can use them without self-hosting anything.

Python SDK (async + sync clients), MCP for AI agents, OpenAPI spec for generating clients in any language, webhooks with HMAC signing, n8n/Zapier via webhooks, and first-class Docker Compose deployment. The REST API is uniform across all 80+ endpoints.

Payments settle via x402 through a facilitator. Pry accepts ERC-20 USDC and USDT on EVM chains, USDC/USDT and SOL on Solana, and USDT on Tron. Each gated endpoint quotes the exact assets it accepts, so you always see what is payable before you pay. No signup, no KYC — the payment itself is the credential.

Create one from the Pry dashboard. API keys carry a prepaid balance with a transparent ledger of every credit and debit, and they unlock the hosted HTTP API. If you would rather not hold an account at all, the same endpoints also speak x402 — pay per call and the payment is your credential. Health, docs and job-management endpoints are always free.

Two different ways to pay. Pay-as-you-go bulk scrape packs are prepaid credit packs bought with a single crypto top-up and drawn down per request at a discounted effective rate — ideal for cron monitors, agents and batch jobs. The hosted-pry subscription is a monthly cloud plan where we run the browsers, stealth and proxies behind an SLA, with dashboards and managed infrastructure. Same engine; you only buy one lane.

Fail-closed. If the x402 payment does not settle — wrong asset, network issue, or a replayed transaction — Pry rejects the request and returns the 402 with the exact expected asset and price. Settlement-success gating means your data is released only after the facilitator confirms the payment. A failed payment never burns credits and never returns partial data.

Pricing is published per endpoint in /v1/x402/pricing and scales across tiers, from standard scrapes up to heavier operations like screenshots, crawls and OCR. Rate limits are tier-based, enforced server-side, and the ladder walks you up as your demand grows.

Yes. The core engine is MIT open source and free to self-host with unlimited requests; the stealth/anti-detection module is source-available under BSL 1.1 (free for personal and non-commercial use, with a commercial license for production). Source lives on Codeberg (codeberg.org/RugMunchMedia/pryscraper) and GitLab (gitlab.com/cryptorugmuncher/pryscraper).

Pry sticks to publicly available data. You are responsible for respecting each site's terms of service, robots.txt and copyright, plus privacy law like GDPR/CCPA. The engine ships compliance tooling — consent recording, deletion and retention controls, and audit logs — so you can build responsibly without hoovering up personal data.

A 402 body always says what it wants: the expected asset, network and price — the most common cause is paying in the wrong asset or chain. If a payment is not credited, confirm it landed on the correct treasury address for that network and that it is mainnet; testnet transactions are rejected by design. Replayed or unsettled transactions are refused to prevent double-spends.