# Web scraping use cases and recipes

> Web data API use cases with runnable recipes, measured credit costs and honest limits: job postings, protected sites, AI knowledge bases, leads, prices.

Source: https://docs.spicrawl.com/use-cases

Each use case starts from the data you want and ends with a runnable request, its credit cost and what does not work yet.

## Which Spicrawl use case should I start with?

- [Scrape job postings](https://docs.spicrawl.com/use-cases/job-postings.md): Job boards, infinite-scroll listings and public job APIs: 15 of 16 sources worked, with request and cost.

- [Scrape bot-protected sites](https://docs.spicrawl.com/use-cases/protected-sites.md): Cloudflare and PerimeterX cleared on your own proxy; blocked Akamai, Kasada and Imperva cost 0.

- [Turn websites into LLM-ready data](https://docs.spicrawl.com/use-cases/ai-knowledge-base.md): Clean markdown for RAG and AI agents: batch ingestion, chunking, MCP and scheduled refreshes.

- [Lead generation from the web](https://docs.spicrawl.com/use-cases/lead-generation.md): Company directories and listing sites into structured leads, exported to CSV or a CRM.

- [E-commerce price monitoring](https://docs.spicrawl.com/use-cases/price-monitoring.md): Product price, availability and rating: re-scrape fresh, batch catalogs, compare countries.

## Which Spicrawl guides do the use cases build on?

- [JavaScript rendering](https://docs.spicrawl.com/guides/javascript-rendering.md): Run a page in a real browser with `js_render` for 3 credits.

- [Browser actions](https://docs.spicrawl.com/guides/browser-actions.md): Scroll, click and fill before the page is captured.

- [Structured data](https://docs.spicrawl.com/guides/structured-data.md): Get fields as JSON with `autoparse` or selectors.

- [Batch jobs](https://docs.spicrawl.com/guides/batch.md): Fetch up to 10,000 URLs in one server-side job.

- [Proxies and geo](https://docs.spicrawl.com/guides/proxies-and-geo.md): Route through your own proxy and match the exit country.

- [Sessions and logins](https://docs.spicrawl.com/guides/sessions-and-logins.md): Log in once and reuse the cookies.

 

## Disclaimer

> **For educational purposes:** The examples on this page are for educational purposes only; the URLs are placeholders, and Spicrawl is not affiliated with any site you scrape. Check each site's terms and `robots.txt`, respect rate limits, and follow the laws that apply to you, including data-protection laws such as the GDPR and CCPA when pages contain personal data. You are responsible for how you use Spicrawl and the data you collect. This is not legal advice.