ScraperAPI
About ScraperAPI
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ScraperAPI Pricing
Hobby: $29/user/month Startup: $99/user/month Business: $249/user/month
Starting price:
$29.00 per month
Free trial:
Available
Free version:
Available
Most Helpful Reviews for ScraperAPI
1 - 5 of 61 Reviews
Arun
Verified reviewer
Research, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2021
Using ScraperAPI in scholarly-python-package
Google has been pretty good at blocking programmatic requests even for non-commercial, self-archival purposes and ScraperAPI has been extremely effective and getting around those. While getting the requests routed through ScraperAPI has been much slower than say, routing it through one of the free proxy servers,
PROSThe ease of use and the fact that there were multiple ways of using it made this desirable. The simple API usage let me prototype and decide what element I need to look for, and used the proxy method in the software to make the integration seamless.
CONSScraperAPI does not allow for web elements to be rendered, at least not until I am on the most expensive plan. While this has not been limiting so far, the lack of this feature has led me to use ScraperAPI along with other proxy methods as opposed to using ScraperAPI exclusively.
Reason for choosing ScraperAPI
ScraperAPI had a free trial and a free plan, which let me play around and test the features before deciding to commit to this service. The alternatives did not have a free plan which did not encourage using it as much.
Vendor Response
Hi Arun, thank you for your review! You are correct, at the moment only our Business and Enterprise plans offer JS Rendering, but we are working on offering them for the lower volume plans as well. Stay tuned!
Replied November 2021
Anonymous
2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2021
Great Value to access web pages behind protection for a decent price
We are a Data Acquisition company, Due to our scale we were struggling to build and maintain inhouse solutions to avoid bot detection. The proxy service such as Luminati are impossible for us to afford and we cannot also hire a developer to work on our in-house solution. Scraper API provides us with an easy to use scraping option for tougher sites without any commitment in a fraction of cost.
PROSI love that I am able to access Amazon, g2.com, or any website with protection with even the basic package without JS. This allows to do data acquisition faster and at cheaper rates. Also, I like the pricing models(no commitments), 29 USD for 250k requests which serves our purpose perfectly. Also, Shout out to [SENSITIVE CONTENT] in support who helped to resolve a billing issue in a day.
CONSI wish they allowed the remaining credits to be rolled over to the next month. If this is implemented, it would even provide a lot of value to startups such as ours
Reason for choosing ScraperAPI
We felt like scraper API was Cheaper and had better support
Reasons for switching to ScraperAPI
Pricing
Vendor Response
Hi! Thank you for your review! Although we do not allow rolling over credits, we are currently working on a feature that will do something similar. Stay tuned!
Replied November 2021
Bryan
Marketing and Advertising, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2024
No Fuss No Muss
Easy and straightforward. Documentation is very detailed and makes it simple to get up and running.
PROSEase of use and the API functionality makes it easy for anyone on my team to use and can be quickly added to analysis projects to gather additional data or verify existing.
CONSI can't honestly think of any off the top of my head; not so much a con, but we've found better options for massive data-pulls, but I think those are somewhat out of the scope of ScraperAPI's goal.
Reason for choosing ScraperAPI
We use several types of scraping products, but in terms of quick on the fly responses to our requests, ScraperAPI was one of the best options. When we need to scrape millions of records we use other solutions, but for real-time gathering we use ScraperAPI.
Anonymous
2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
1
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
2
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
1
FUNCTIONALITY
2
Reviewed September 2022
Prices increased by 1000% and quality degraded like crazy
Back in the day it was the cheapest scraping provider, they charged by request no matter if you used JS or not.
CONSI couldn't use up my credits any more because over 80% of the requests were failing.
Vendor Response
Hello, thanks for leaving us a review. You're right in that we increased the pricing recently. The price increase was done in three ways (domain/credits based, monthly price and feature/credits) this means that users that scrape small sites still pay a cheap price while bigger and harder pages to scrape pay slightly more compensated by a higher success rates for those pages. Features are now added to more or less all plans and users get the option to use them and get charged with credits rather than paying an extra flat fee monthly for the same feature (which was our previous model). Nevertheless, ScraperAPI always was and still is one of the cheapest scraping providers (and we aim to remain one of the cheapest), especially when it comes to data extraction from major platforms, such as Google or Amazon. We are more than happy to to offer you a customised plan that would fit your needs, just get in touch via support@scraperapi.com and someone there will help you out.
Replied October 2022
Emre
Verified reviewer
Computer & Network Security, 2-10 employees
Used monthly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2023
Why pay a lot of money for manufacturer APIs when there is ScraperAPI?
If I review my ScraperAPI experience, I can come to the conclusion that it is great software for me and my company.
PROSScraperAPI's cheap price and variety of API services are my favorite features.
CONSMy least favorite feature of ScraperAPI is that some APIs are too restrictive.
Reason for choosing ScraperAPI
There were times when I preferred alternative products due to different API options.
