How I Built a Web Scraping API That Handles 100K Requests/Day for Free

I needed to scrape product prices across 50+ competitor sites. Hiring a scraping service? $500/month minimum. Building it myself on traditional infrastructure? The bandwidth costs alone would kill me. Then I discovered Cloudflare Workers. Three months later, I'm handling 100K+ requests daily—for free tier pricing. The Problem I Solved My e-commerce startup needed real-time price monitoring across competitors. Manual checks? Impossible. Existing APIs? Either overpriced or inconsistent. So I built the Degani Web Scraper API—deployed on Cloudflare Workers—and it's been running lean ever since. The wins: Extracts structured data from any webpage in milliseconds Handles 100K daily requests within Cloudflare's free tier Zero infrastructure to manage Rate limiting built-in Returns clean JSON—not HTML soup What This API Actually Does The endpoint structure is simple. You POST to: https://degani-web-scraper.deganiagency.workers.dev And it gives you clean data back. Here's what you can extract: