ScraperAPI Reviews

Ease 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.

I 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.

It's cheap. If you want to prototype a new concept, use ScraperAPI.

ScraperAPI is temperamental. For a day you'll have no issue running links through the platform. The next day, a large portion of your scrape requests will timeout with no explanation. Given that we are building a prototype, it is OK. Though once we move to the next stage of development, it is likely we'll use a consistent alternative.

ScraperAPI's cheap price and variety of API services are my favorite features.

My least favorite feature of ScraperAPI is that some APIs are too restrictive.

Back in the day it was the cheapest scraping provider, they charged by request no matter if you used JS or not.

I couldn't use up my credits any more because over 80% of the requests were failing.

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...

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Easy to use and very fast. Fetching huge amount of webpages from Google without any problems.

does not support scraping Facebook and Instagram

Hi James, thanks for taking the time to leave us a review! Hopefully Facebook and Instagram scraping is something we can offer in the future, but at the moment I'm afraid we don't support it.

We use this tool to scrape publically available profiles on Instagram and it has worked wonderfully for most of the time. The price is also cheaper than other scrapers I've found and/or use. There are times when the success drops, but they never charge for failures and always work on a fix. Unfortunately, right now is one of the times with a low success rate, but it still works whereas the other scraper I tried didn't work at all (to be fair I didn't contact them about it, so as to give them an opportunity to fix it). Thank you for always working on this, and I hope to be able to use this tool for as long as we require this data for our product. :)

The thing I like the least is the low success times (we only have this issue with Instagram).

Hi Michael, thanks for the review! At the moment we don't scrape Instagram unfortunately so that is the reason for the low success rates. Otherwise, you're good to scrape pretty much any other page out there.

It is very cost friendly and high scalable

it should have a post api support. It should support he more thread at a time.

Hi Vishal, thank you for your review! We do support concurrent threads. Our plans have an optimal number of concurrent threads based on the number of API credits but you can always add more.

Ease of setup, integration with their well written documentation and efficient API

headers of the response are not included when calling API, contacted support but did not get answer so far (sent 1 week ago) not always easy to get actual endpoint response data when non 200 status

Hi Nicolas, thank you for your review! Unfortunately, at the time of your email, our Support team was hit by a bout of illness so response times were unusual.

Ease of set up and usage is what I like the most. Also, if you want to upgrade to add another feature it is as simple as just a click. Amazing how things are managed at the back end. We also like the data provided in terms of health of the connection including failed requests etc.

Did not find anything which would make me write in this section

Hi Ravi, thank you for your great review!

I have been using ScraperAPI for last 2 years ro so. They were not flawless in the beginning, but they were always willing to work based on the clients feedback and tweak their infrastructure to fix the issue. The thing I liked the most: 1. Auto Proxy Rotation 2. Auto CAPTCHA Handling 3. JS Rendering 4. Geo Location Targeting Moreover, then don't charge extra for scpraing the data from the premium site like Amazon, Google etc. where the competitors do so.

To be honest I have always been a big fan of theirs so couldn't say anything negative on them. But the monthly commitment is what I don't like that much. Its because, sometimes I might need their service, sometimes not. So pay per go plan with a reasonable price will be the best option. Or a monthly commitment with rollover credit will work too.

Hi Shekhor, thank you for your great review!

This is one of the best I've tried. They have a ton of IP addresses you can use to make API requests. Easy to set up and use.

The only con I can think of is sometimes requests do timeout but it's rare.

Hi Steven, thank you for your review!

It just works very consistently without having to fuss around with proxies.

Requests can vary in speed. Sometimes they're slower sometimes faster.

Hello Hayk, thank you for your review!

Its able to function easily and easy to implement for a developer

Multi national support is on a very priced pla. I am not able to use it for client level purpose

Hello Rohit, thank you for your review! We are currently working on a different pricing plan to address some limitations such as the one you mentioned. Stay tuned!

I try a lot of scraper software, but this is the best value for money. It works, which is what really matters.

It would be great to have more auto extractors of information like they do with Amazon.

Hi Eusebio, thank you for your review and for your suggestion!

It simple and just works. On top of that, you can ask support to implement filtering of some responses that should not be considered valid parsed responses.

Sometimes pages with errors and captchas are returned as successful results. However, this can be fixed if you ask the support.

Hi Alexey, thank you for your review!

I like most the surpassing of captures and redirection. We use it to scrape data from social media platforms like Instagram and they are pretty strict.

Sometimes the request take quite long, but that can be due to instagram as it depends on the request url.

Hi Florenz, thank you for your reply! We prioritize success rates over speed, so sometimes some requests might take a little longer.

What I like most about ScraperAPI is its ease of use. The documentation gets me up and running in no time and the sample code is highly illustrative. I also feel like they offer the best value as I had to do a lot of web scraping in a short amount of time, and the pricing scheme is flexible enough to accommodate my changing need for the service. I did shop around and while other providers offer comparable prices (or perhaps even a little bit cheaper), I just stick with ScraperAPI as I got used to its interface. I have had good results in highly readable format most of the time. The customer support team is also quick in replying my emails.

Even with the Business subscription, I don't always get the data I needed. But I'm sure this is a challenge to which there's no quick-and-easy solution just yet. JSON auto parsing is a really nice feature but currently is offered on a limited number of websites. I also think residential proxy is a little bit pricy relative to its value, because even with residential proxy activated, I still got blocked sometimes.

Hi Thien, thank you for your review! We are constantly actively refreshing our proxy pools to ensure this happens as little as possible.

High quality and reasonable prices. We recommend it.

There is nothing in particular that we dislike from this software.

Hi Germán, thank you for your review! It's great to know you are happy with ScraperAPI. We are continuously working to improve it and we're working on some cool new features.

Easy to scale process with concurrent threads in the Cloud

As our needs expand, we’ll need to continue customizing our plan. It would be helpful to have the ability to scale the plan’s calls, threads, etc. in the tool itself as needs evolve.

Hi Kevin, Thank you for your review! We are actually working on a self-service way to increase or decrease the number of calls and threads. Stay tuned!

The product is super easy to use as the documentation provided is quite handy and easy to implement. We have been able to integrate this with our internal tool with less support.

So far we haven't had any bad experience with the software.

Hello Suman, thank you for your review!

Easy to use. Quite fast. Handling most of website good.

Amazon in Europe is just bad. You need get it to a higher success rate. Even if it cost more.

Hi Yedidyah, thank you for your reply! We are always working on improving success rates, and Amazon is one of our top priorities.

ScraperAPI removes a lot of the head aches from performing requests. No more managing and debugging proxies. All the annoying work is done for you and you can focus on building the features you need to.

I'd love to be able to take advantage of the premium proxies and the javascript scraping however unfortunately those features are a bit pricy for me and out of budget.

Hi Ian, thank you for your review! Can you please reach out to support@scraperapi.com inquiring about discounts? Depending on the volume of requests you need, we might be able to work something out.

The 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.

ScraperAPI 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.

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!

I 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.

I 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

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!

- The URL encoding is fairly straightforward to implement and maintain - The support team is quick to respond and support on any issues that come up - The pricing is very reasonable and they give a lot of queries vs other providers - was able to upgrade, downgrade, or pause subscription without any issues

- there are a few websites where it didn't work for me, e.g Tesco.com - the IP locations were not always accurate, e.g set to USA, and still see China, or Malaysia etc appearing as the location on Amazon.com

Hi, thank you for your review! Regarding the IP locations not being accurate, we regularly curate our IP databases, but given the dynamic nature of proxies, this is an issue that can, sometimes, occur. If this happens, please reach out to support@scraperapi.com and let us know. As an alternative, we also offer Premium proxies where this is less likely to occur.