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Scrape Websites Without a Subscription

Extract content, prices, and structured data with Firecrawl, Diffbot, and Exa pay-per-request — no $49+/month scraper plan.

How do I scrape a website without a paid plan?

Short answer: send the URL to a scraping endpoint through Locus and pay per page from one balance. Scraper plans start around $49/month whether you need 100 pages or 100,000. If you extract a few hundred pages a month — competitor prices, listings, docs — paying per page costs a few dollars total.

What web data can I get pay-per-use?

Page extraction

Turn any URL into clean markdown or structured JSON with Firecrawl — content, tables, and metadata without writing a parser.

Structured products and articles

Use Diffbot to extract products, prices, articles, and discussions into consistent fields across sites.

Search plus crawl

Find pages with Exa or Brave search, then crawl them — discovery and extraction in one workflow, one balance.

AI-ready research

Feed extracted pages into Parallel or an LLM step for summaries, comparisons, and monitoring alerts.

Why scraping fits pay-per-request

  • •Project-based work — Scraping comes in projects: a competitor audit, a dataset build, a migration. Plans charge through the idle months between them.
  • •Agent research loops — AI agents that look up a page mid-task need extraction as a utility call, not a platform seat.
  • •No infra to run — No proxies, headless browsers, or CAPTCHA handling — the provider deals with rendering and blocking.
  • •Mix and match sources — Search with Brave, extract with Firecrawl, structure with Diffbot, summarize with an LLM — all from the same balance.

A cheap price-monitoring setup

A typical low-cost flow: crawl a list of competitor product pages weekly with Firecrawl, extract prices into structured fields, compare against your own with a code-execution step, and alert on changes. A few hundred page crawls a month costs far less than any monitoring platform seat — and the catalog shows the per-page price before you run.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I scrape a website without writing a crawler?

Send URLs to Firecrawl or Diffbot through Locus and get back clean markdown or structured JSON — no proxies, browsers, or parsers to run.

How much does web scraping cost?

Per-page prices are published in the catalog. A few hundred pages a month typically costs a few dollars total.

Can I monitor competitor prices automatically?

Yes. Crawl product pages on a schedule, extract prices into structured fields, diff them with a code step, and alert on changes.

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