My overall experience with Scrapfly has been very positive, marked by satisfaction with its features and services.

The most impressive aspects of Scrapfly include its competitive pricing, intuitive user interface, comprehensive logging features, and straightforward API.

No significant downsides have been observed with Scrapfly to date.

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.

It'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.

Screenshots 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.

Overall good

It is useful to collect data and use the data

It is a bit difficult to use but can be used easily

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.

There 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.

- Only service that reliably circumvents cloudflare detection - Easy and intuitive API - Transparent pricing model - Ability to replace multiple services I've used before to a single one, that can do it all

- Sadly the cost (a bit more expensive than other scraping services). In the end you pay for the quality, but it's worth it :-)