# ScrapingAnt Residential Proxy Scraper (vaaya.ai) > ScrapingAnt Residential Proxy Scraper (vaaya.ai) is a paid API for AI agents from vaaya.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.04/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13). Scrapes hard-to-reach web pages using a 3M+ residential proxy pool and headless Chrome to bypass Cloudflare, anti-bot walls, and geo-fencing. ## Facts - Endpoint: POST https://vaaya.ai/api/run/scrapingant/scrape_residential - Price: $0.04/call - Payment: x402 - Status: unknown - Last checked: 2026-09-13 - Activations on Zero: 0 - Tags: x402 - Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/scrapingant-residential-proxy-scraper-vaaya-ai-d436aede - Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_QvrTFB8MChGHjx2F2D1q9 Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently. ## How to call it through Zero Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`): ```sh zero fetch --capability scrapingant-residential-proxy-scraper-vaaya-ai-d436aede -d '' ``` Example prompt: The plain scrape of https://www.example.com/product/12345 failed because of Cloudflare — try again using the residential proxy pool with headless Chrome, wait for the selector '.product-price' to load, and use a US-based proxy. ## When to prefer this Use this endpoint only after a standard datacenter-based scrape has failed due to Cloudflare, anti-bot walls, or datacenter IP blocking. It is 4× the price of the datacenter tier, so it should be the escalation path, not the default. Prefer it when geo-fenced content requires a specific country's residential IP or when JavaScript rendering behind bot protection is required. ## Known failure modes - Target site uses techniques that even residential proxies cannot bypass, returning empty or error HTML - Timeout exceeded if the wait_for_selector never appears on the page - Invalid or unreachable URL returns an error response - Requested proxy_country has no available residential IPs at that moment - JS snippet execution error causes incomplete page rendering ## How this service works ScrapingAnt — Scrape a HARD page through the 3M+ residential-proxy pool + headless Chrome: Cloudflare and anti-bot walls, geo-fenced content, sites that block datacenter IPs. Same params as scrapingant/scrape (`url` + browser/wait_for_selector/js_snippet/proxy_country/timeout/cookies). Returns `{ raw: "…" }`. 4× the price of the datacenter rung — escalate here only after a plain scrape fails. ## Output Returns a JSON object with a single 'raw' field containing the full HTML source of the rendered page after bypassing anti-bot protections and fully executing JavaScript. ## Request schema (JSON Schema) ```json { "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema", "type": "object", "properties": { "input": { "type": "object", "properties": { "type": { "type": "string", "const": "http" }, "method": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "POST" ] }, "bodyType": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "json", "form-data", "text" ] }, "body": { "type": "object", "properties": { "url": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" }, "browser": { "type": "boolean" }, "return_page_source": { "type": "boolean" }, "wait_for_selector": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 }, "js_snippet": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 }, "block_resource": { "anyOf": [ { "type": "string" }, { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } } ] }, "proxy_country": { "type": "string", "minLength": 2, "maxLength": 2 }, "timeout": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 5, "maximum": 60 }, "cookies": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 } }, "required": [ "url" ], "additionalProperties": false, "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#" }, "pathParams": { "type": "object" } }, "required": [ "type", "method", "bodyType", "body" ], "additionalProperties": false }, "output": { "type": "object", "properties": { "type": { "type": "string" }, "example": { "type": "object" } }, "required": [ "type" ] } }, "required": [ "input" ] } ``` ## More - Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/scrapingant-residential-proxy-scraper-vaaya-ai-d436aede/health.json - [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt) - [Other services from vaaya.ai](https://www.zero.xyz/host/vaaya.ai/llms.txt)