Web Scraping Copilot FAQ

These are some frequently asked questions about Web Scraping Copilot:

How much does Web Scraping Copilot cost?

Web Scraping Copilot in itself is free.

To use code generation, you do need a GitHub Copilot plan. The Free plan is not recommended because you would spend your requests rather quickly.

To use Scrapy Cloud features, you need a Scrapy Cloud account. The free plan is fine, though.

Does the extension use AI from Zyte?

No — your GitHub Copilot AIs are used.

The extension provides instructions and prompts, and the MCP server tools use MCP sampling to start separate chats in the background to handle the different steps of code generation.

To control which models can be used by the MCP server, open the Command Palette (Ctrl + Shift + P) and select MPC: List Servers → Web Scraping Copilot → Configure Model Access.

Is my code sent to Zyte?

The code generation workflow that the extension facilitates does not send any code to Zyte, only to GitHub Copilot.

Scrapy Cloud deployment, if used, does upload your code to Scrapy Cloud.

Which model is best for code generation?

The model you use in the main chat should be somewhat smart, since workflow management can be hard for smaller models. We recommend something like GPT‑5, although GPT‑5 mini has shown good results in our tests.

The MCP web scraping tools, to generate expectations and code, are designed to work well enough with models for which GitHub Copilot paid plans (Pro or better) allow unlimited requests, like GPT‑5 mini. Given the number of requests that those tools can generate, it could be very costly to use a smarter model.