Scrapfly
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Scrapfly Pricing
Free Trial Discovery Plan = $30 - 200k API Crédits Pro Plan = $100 - 1 M API Crédits Startup plan = $250 - 2.5 M API Crédits Enterprise plan = $500 - 5.5 M API Crédits
Starting price:
$30.00 per month
Free trial:
Available
Free version:
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Most Helpful Reviews for Scrapfly
1 - 5 of 86 Reviews
Diego
Verified reviewer
Computer Software, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2023
Advanced scraping features with simple interface
IP Rotation and selection of IP types are very easy to set up and very powerful in practice.
CONSSometimes it's hard to interpret documentation examples and apply them in my own code.
Reasons for switching to Scrapfly
The very advanced features for developers is what's made possible all of my scraping needs so far
Stan
Information Technology and Services, 1 employee
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2023
It just works and has low cost
It's my go-to scraping API I use for both personal and professional projects. It's just there, costs less than anything else, and it just works. It scrapes without a problem websites that fail on other scrapers. I work with JavaScript environments that are often limited in libraries, so the ScrapFly approach to API requests helps me a lot - I don't need to construct weird requests if I can't use the provided library. I just have one URL construction logic I reuse across all my projects. My only wish is a pay-to-go plan so I can recommend the service to even more clients who need to scrape less than thousands of pages a month and will be happier to pay a premium per request but still less than half of the cheapest plan. Overall, I highly recommend this for any scraping needs if you don't want to deal with headless browsers, captchas, proxies, etc.
PROSIt's the cheapest while not sacrificing quality. Works fast and easy to use API. API player and logs are good. Anti-Protection bypass is fully automatic, no need to redo the request.
CONSScreenshots are the weakest part for me - they miss some parts of the website render. Anti-scraping protection could be a little smarter and try to find proxies that incur less cost per request. I manually select countries for proxies for some websites while automatic mode is happy to use proxies from countries that lead to all the anti-bot protections and the highest cost for the request.
Reasons for switching to Scrapfly
Way too expensive and works slower. Though their screenshots are better.
Anonymous
2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed February 2024
Reliable, fast and reasonably priced
Able to bypass datadome, fast and reliable. The API response ranges from 1 to 12 seconds and is pretty cheap. I have used a lot of similar services like ScrapingBee which is way slower and more expensive or Oxylabs which has a 10% failure rate for my use case.
CONSThe npm package is a mess, it has some Cheerio types that conflict with the ones you get when installing Cheerio manually.
Anonymous
2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2024
Great value for the mony
I tried several scraping API provider and I think Scarpfly offers the best value for the money.
PROSWell documented API and good Python SDK. It was quite easy to implent the service in our processes and scripts. The scraping is effective and reilable. Log reports and dashboard are useful and easy to navigate.
CONSActually nothing to add here, I would like to have more projects available in their bacis plan (Discovery), but I understand it makes sense to keep it as a premium feature.
Jason
Information Services, 1 employee
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2024
Experience Using Scrapfly
After hitting a dead end with a data extraction project using the usual out-of-the-box Python tools, Scrapy, etc, I turned to Scrapfly. Not only can the Scrapfly SDK execute Javascript, but it can also work around common anti-scraping measures. With Scrapfly I'm able to quickly and reliably extract the data I need.
CONSThere are no real cons. Understanding the Python SDK took a bit, but once I had it up and running, it worked very similarly to other Python data extraction libraries.
Reason for choosing Scrapfly
Scrapfly easily integrates into my codebase. I don't need to configure it using web GUIs.