Zyte Reviews

Our team being in limited number, setting up multiple tools for data extraction was a pain. We contacted an agency which quoted us a huge bill and that's when we found the Zyte. Few days spent in dev, no pain of servers, proxy rotation or anything and we got our job done.

We're happy with the product and do not find any issues yet.

Their cloud proxy service, combined with scrapy is still a just-works, with ip rotation from different geolocations.

Their other offers are expensive, even with the increasing competition. It needs a lot of work for many sites using cloud flare protection.

- Reliable & consistent (highest uptime) - Lowest latency - Lowest resolution errors - Excellent customer support

- Pricing can be improved - IP availability in non-US locations can be improved

We love everything about Zyte. The only flaw is that the "back end" is very closed and debugging can be difficult.

Not easy to "get to details". The back end of the processing is very closed.

Ease of installation and integration with API

They don't respect what they communicate in the service.

No pros - its a library full of bugs

*** NEVER USE THIS CRAP LIBRARY *** We had a paid plan, and this Splash is full of bugs Proxies for HTTPS urls do not work at all, the splash page just hangs forever There is no real-time UI that you can look whats happening inside Splash We created few tickets about the errors we were getting, they respond after 10+ days for a single ticket When taking screenshots, it generates white blank screenshots even the page is loaded perfectly When clicking on elements, it sometimes works, but sometimes just makes that element 'active' but does not click When selecting an element, it sometimes finds element, but sometimes does not, even though the source-code of page has that element when I print that in logs

I like scalability. Sometimes we need to submit millions of requests immediately and with Scrapinghub we can really put the pedal to the metal. We rarely have downtime, and it's really allowed us to grow our company and thrive. Easy to integrate into scrapy and other python tools.

Their billing support can be moody, but the product is fantastic!!

The best out there for any kind of scraping need. They new AI based scraping api is a game changer

Nothing bad about it. Beats the competition out of the water

We're only using Crawlera for our data scraping needs and it has worked seamlessly since we started using it in 2016. When we had to upgrade to a higher limit, the transition was fast, and no dev time was wasted updating our existing codebase.

Pricing can be a bit tricky especially if your need is right in between the plans.

I have been using Scrapy and Scrapinghub's services since 2013 and I'm so far very satisfied with their services. Crawlera, their proxy service, works very well! I don't have to setup a proxy farm anymore or configure my scrapers to point to thousands of proxy services as they do all the grunt work for you (it's all automated).

Minor hiccups from time to time on the dashboard. It only affects me when I want to see historical stats but this problem doesn't affect functionality.

I use the crawlera proxy system from Scarpinghub. It is very straightforward to use and results are great.

No cons until now. Once in a while a server/IP gets banned but they have a big pool of IPs to serve you.

Your reliability an trust about proxy ip list.

You payment method just accept international credit cards. I used it from Brazil.

We are very happy with Crawlera. It works like a charm with our Scrapy projects, just adding a few lines of code we completely forgot about proxies that ended up failing anyway.

Some requests end up being very slow, but good news is most of them end up going through.

It really saves my time as a web scraping specialists. I always need rotated proxies for my client needs. I keep creating a new project and it is a lot of hassle of I have to buy proxies, renew proxies, and create proxy rotation on my own. I am glad I don't even need to think about it. It just works!

Well, it's just doesn't have enough advanced documentation on Scrapy Splash combined with Crawlera. Their development team in Github is very responsive though.

A full integrated platform for a framework well done for it purpose. Easy to use, based on others frameworks structure, so if you are used to web development in python then it's a piece of cake to create spiders. The integration (scrapy + scrapinghub) its really good, from a simple deployment through a library or a docker makes it suitable for any need. Good support and constant improvement on the platform. A lot of plugins and, open to any feature needed.

So far there is nothing I dislike about it.

The software delivers the exactly promised result. It has a friendly interface and an efficient support.

You need a roadmap of new features and the pricing of third-party services.

Thank you for the review. All new features will be announced in our Support Center.(https://support.scrapinghub.com/support/home) We also have an Ideas Forum (https://support.scrapinghub.com/support/discussions/forums/22000200101) where we would love your input on ideas or new features you would like to see. We appreciate all input from our Customers to continue to help us improve our products.

Open source, well documented and very efficient.

Splash needs to be migrated to another tool IMO. I don't find LUA easy to work with as a developer; not because of the language but debugging and maintaining code is really hard. If you use scrapy-splash there is a black box that cannot interact with. I think going mainstream with javascript or python whilst unifying browser scrapping and scrapy itself would be an amazing decision. So, overall I would love to see a merge between scrapy and a browser scraper.

This software allows me to access 97% of the web resources I need. Other proxy servers I have used gave me 75% maximum.

That its a time based subscription. I would prefer being able to buy a certain number of requests and renew when those run out.

Thanks you for your review and input on our pricing model - we appreciate all customer feedback and have fed this into our product team for review.

Scrapinghub is so easy to use. With few setups you're ready to build your first spider. The integration with github and other addons (such as crawlera) makes things even easier to manage code deploy and proxy network management. Support for Python 3 is also a great improvement

I'm still in early days with scrapinghub and at the moment did not see any big issues to take into account. One things that comes in my mind to be improved is the documentation.

Thank you for your review we appreciate all customer feedback and are constantly looking to have better documentation with continuous improvements underway. If you see any issues in our current documentation we would love to hear from you. Please submit via our Support Center.(https://support.scrapinghub.com/support/home)

it helps a lot to avoid the self-hosted spiders, this is the primary reason I like it. and I know it is developing to make it more ease to use, like github integration, however I have set up the CI tools to publish the spider automatically for every code change, so I don't use it.

however it is always a pain that it is more difficult to bypass the bot detection, especially for big website, like amazon, and the other websites protected by Distil. I know this is not the fault of scrapinghub, but it is a big pain. and I know you have a service Crawlera for this purpose, but it is quite expensive.

Thank you for your review we appreciate all customer feedback. We agree and antibot research is something we are also focused on to help our customers.

As a business once you hit a certain size it makes sense outsourcing webscraping. Scrapinghub has the required specialism to do a good job.

Still needs involved work from the client side to ensure data quality and consistency.

Thank you for your review we appreciate all customer feedback. We agree and data quality is very important to us as well. We are constantly looking to improving our QA framework and working with our customers to ensure consistent data quality.

- Original and flexible technology - No vendor-lock - Easy to use for professionals - Pretty convenient API system for integration with third-party solutions

- Not so easy to use by non-professional IT person that still wants to use data scraping - Lack of ability to create some kind of simple and clear user interface for such a persons - No simple solution for distributed/high-volume crawling - Lack of monitoring and alerting, non convenient logging system - Overpriced Crawlera

Thank you for your review we appreciate all customer feedback. We do have a managed service offering for non IT professional who want access to the Data without having any scraping skills.

- Works perfectly as long as you do not need Portia - Fast - Many available features in one place - It fulfills my scraping needs well - EXCELLENT technical support

- Portia (beta) is almost unusable. I got a couple very basic programs out of it before I taught myself how to use Scrapy. Still, if you are looking for a value and have time to deal with the lag/hiccups in Portia, it is by far the best value for a simple point and click scrapying platform that I found. You can make it work, you will just want to put your head through the screen before you are done...

Scrapy is amazing, python api is easy to use, job dashboard is easy to understand, good documentation and code.

Dynamic pages sometimes hard to scrape, nothing wrong with lua (for splash) as a language, but can be minor barrier to entry for python/javascript users.

I use the Python scrapy module to write crawlers to monitor competitors prices. The integration with Github makes it real easy to deploy code to the hub. The dashboards are very useful to monitor progress and schedule jobs. Really happy with this offering.

In the beginning it was somewhat cumbersome to automate data extraction. Once I started using Python scrapinghub module life became easy. So also a pro!