What is batch web scraping?

Instead of making a separate API call for every URL, you send a list all at once. The service handles parallel processing, manages rate limiting across requests, and returns unified results in one response.

Factor

Sequential

Batch

API calls

One per URL

One total

Speed

Sum of all scrapes

Parallel

Error handling

Per-request

Unified

Common use cases

• E-commerce catalog scraping
• Competitive price monitoring
• Content aggregation from multiple sources

Olostep's batch endpoint processes URL arrays in parallel with per-URL status tracking.

Key Takeaways

Batch scraping processes multiple URLs in a single request, enabling faster and simpler large-scale data extraction.