ScrapingBee
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$49 for 100k API credits / 1 concurrency $99 for 1M API credits / 10 concurrency $249 for 2M5 API credits / 40 concurrency Custom plan on demand
Starting price:
$49.00 per month
Free trial:
Available
Free version:
Available
Most Helpful Reviews for ScrapingBee
1 - 5 of 101 Reviews
Mike
Verified reviewer
Consumer Goods, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2023
It's too easy
Fantastic! Zero problems thus far
PROSI'm not even using the full features of ScrapingBee, but with their API Builder, Code Exporter, and Dashboarding, it was easy to get started.I see the features of ScrapingBee being huge for me in the near future, but I know that as I scale, they're pricing is competitive and their service is reliable. I haven't had this success rate, and this isn't my first webscraping vendor. I'm never going anywhere else.
CONSI would love a bit more documentation in the errors. I know that with scraping, it can be obscure, but I lost a bit of time on fine tuning the parameters of my request before it worked, but that it panned out faster than any other service I've worked with because of their built in Request Builder
Reasons for switching to ScrapingBee
Constant failures without explanations
Anonymous
2-10 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 2022
Simply great.
Overall I am quite happy with ScrapingBee
PROSWe've used ScrapingBee for almost two months now and the speed and success rate of their proxies have been great, we scrape a variety of Ecommerce stores, including ASOS, Nike and Zalando that do heavy bot throttling and prevention, and with the premium proxies we se great success rate, and the standard proxies are decent and fast for the sitres that don't require very stealthy proxies. I really like that you can use this service with "proxy mode", instead of having to integrate the hTTP api, this made it really easy to "drop in" to our existing application with minimal configuration. The support is quite responsive and they fixed a simple Dashboard UI fix a few minutes after being made aware of it.
CONSThe concurrency limit is 10 for the lowest paid plan, and 40 for the "business" plan, this might be a bit low for our use case, and limits throughput a bit, but I hear from the grapevines that there will be higher or more customisable plans in the future, however, if you need very high concurrency, this might not fit the bill for you.
Reason for choosing ScrapingBee
ScrapingBee had better documentation, friendlier pricing models and frankly a "fresher" design.
Reasons for switching to ScrapingBee
The pricing, the speed of the proxies and the successrate for harder-to-scrape websites made us switch from Crawlera and ScrapeStack
Álvaro
Government Administration, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2024
Good option for scraping
Good UI Simplicity I like the company vision and approach Good documentation Transparency in comms Product works
CONSWe haven't had a major problem, nor we miss anything specific
Eelco
Internet, 1 employee
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2024
High quality scraper
It works exactly as advertised. Pricing is reasonable compared to competitors and customer support reacts to questions quickly.
PROS- Easy setup - Good customer support - Low number of failed scraping attempts - Easy API
CONS- Credits don't roll over to the next month - Pricing for premium proxies is a bit high - No automatic price extraction for big stores like Amazon
Reasons for switching to ScrapingBee
- Better pricing plans - Better customer support
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2021
An easy to use tool that allows you to scale you web crawling project
I'm very happy with our decision to work with ScrapingBee and would still recommend this as a competitive option that can scale in a pretty nice way.
PROSThe API is easy to use and documented in detail. It also proved to be very similar to other tools in the market which I consider an advantage as it reduces vendor lock-in. It comes with a shallow learning curve and all the tools you need to monitor your progress, especially if you are familiar with how APIs work. It also offers a lot of useful & flexible options that allow you to customize how you used the tool and the burn rate of your credits. Also responses proved to be very quick from websites. The pricing is absolutely competitive after comparing it with other similar options. Before using ScrapingBee I didn't think it would be possible to scale our web crawling operations in such an easy way.
CONSThe only disadvantage I could find is that a few websites still manage to block crawling attempts or recognize ScrapingBee's default US servers as Canadian IP addresses which can complicate our web crawling attempts. I have also found that you need some trial and error to decode the error codes returned by the tool and understand the root cause of any issues we come across.
Reason for choosing ScrapingBee
Pricing, demo availability, Simple UI, Good documentation, Fast support