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J H.
Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Generally excellent and a happy customer. I can highly recommend Scraply as a scraping service providing you're comfortable with SDKs and reading API documentation.
We found Scrapfly easy to integrate and switch to (from direct scraping without a scraping service). Their API and SDKs were well documented and we were up and running within a few hours with only minor code tweaks required. The dashboard provides an excellent overview of scraping activity, tracking your credits and scraping errors. It's also, comparable to other similar services, pretty well priced.
While Scrapfly's "anti scraping protection" feature to bypass many scraping blocks works well it is significantly more expensive (30x more expensive in some cases) than normal scraping. It has massive additional cost for Scrapfly to operate so the extra cost isn't entirely unsurprising, however this feature toggling on because you enabled asp=True and using lots of your credits up without additional warning can result in unexpected costs. Finer grained controls on what ASP does relating to credit usage would be a good addition.
Stan W.
Information Technology and Services, self-employed
Used daily for less than 6 months
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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.
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Law Enforcement, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Very solid. Haven't had any issues with the proxies and it's one of the cheaper options out there.
The price, success rate and uptime. It was trivial changing over from another provider.
Compared to previous competitors, I haven't found anything to complain about.
Jason A.
Information Services, self-employed
Used daily for 6-12 months
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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.
Sascha D.
Consumer Services, self-employed
Used daily for 1-2 years
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Scrapfly was easy to set up and offers an easy and comparably stable access to website data.
While the service is very likeable, the recent and quite substantial price increase came rather surprisingly.
Thank you for taking the time to provide us with your feedback regarding your experience with Scrapfly. We are glad to hear that you found our service easy to set up and appreciate the stability of the access to website data. We understand that you were surprised by our recent and quite substantial price increase. We strive to provide our customers with the best value for their money, but sometimes we need to adjust our pricing to maintain the quality of our service. We also want to clarify that our previous $15 plan was not operationally viable. We apologize for any inconvenience this change may have caused and hope you can continue benefiting from our service. Thank you for choosing Scrapfly, and we hope to continue to provide you with a reliable and valuable service. Best regards, The Scrapfly team
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Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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The API works flawlessly - it does take some initial setup and more so than drag/drop scraper websites, but once you have set up your project it works brilliantly. The reporting is excellent and the free tier is generous too.
My only issue was the expense of the Discovery plan. Going from free plan to this when only requiring a little more in the way of monthly credits seemed a little steep. It would be nice to have a stepping stone at $10 a month or so.
MARIA P.
Consumer Goods, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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JS Scenarios are handy, GeoLocation is available for basic-tier subcriptions, Support team is very helpful.
ASP (Anti-Scraping Protection) has some problems with Cloudflare.
Sebastien R.
Computer Software, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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- The solution is reliable, scrapers are rarely detected and blocked. ASP allows to bypass websites protections with strong protection.- API is very easy to use and integrate in our solutions.- Javascript scenarios make it possible to execute advanced actions on the webpage prior to collecting the html data - Pricing is reasonable
So far, my experience has been entirely positive.
Tom S.
Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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The product is very easy to use (simply as few lines of codes) and works so far very reliably. Response times are very good and have not yet encountered any issues.
Some automatic contact extraction feature would be awesome, but other than that all fine.
Olivér P.
Computer Software, self-employed
Used daily for less than 6 months
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I have compared this service with many alternative providers and by far, it is the fastest and most efficient. Its bypass anti-bot solutions is the best I have seen, surpassing any of its competitors. The API is user-friendly and easily configurable. Additionally, the pricing is very favorable. Overall, I highly recommend this service.
The UX could perhaps be a bit more modern, but it's not bad as it is. The interface contains a lot of detailed information that I haven't seen elsewhere, which is definitely a positive aspect.
Jason C.
Wholesale, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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After transitioning to Scrapfly from another provider, we were delighted with the outcomes. The switch was seamless and swift, allowing us to get up and running in record time. Our experience with Scrapfly has been exceptionally satisfying!
Easily set up and swiftly implemented, Scrapfly's platform boasts a user-friendly dashboard that offers clear functionality. Monitor your API usage effortlessly and assess its effectiveness with ease.
No real complaints so far, the platform operates as expected and the implementation is straight forward.
Chen O.
Computer Software, 1-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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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.
Alexander L.
Computer Software, self-employed
Used daily for less than 6 months
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- 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 :-)
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Music, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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I tried several scraping API provider and I think Scarpfly offers the best value for the money.
Well 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.
Actually 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.
Ricky S.
Computer Software, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Solid experience. Would prefer an api call limit to stop our programs from calling the api successfully once we reach the limit. Had an experience where a module was incorrectly configured and it was calling the api indefinitely causing a huge jump in overuse and a large bill at the end.
I specifically appreciate the ability to get past bot blockers and rerouted of Ips.
Limited abilities to access web pages that require Javascript to load certain data points. When a page is not loaded, the api returns a success in certain instances. Our program needs to run redundancies to handle pages that don't load properly.
Bob D.
Telecommunications, self-employed
Used daily for less than 6 months
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highly highly recommended! I just wish more concurrency
fast and cheap. This is much faster than firecrawl and spider.io.
concurrency limit is too low, I wish that we can have a concurrency limit raisable to 20. I meant, the credit is very high, I have a surplus of credits, but the concurrency limit is too low to be completely satisfactory
Zafer C.
Computer Software, 1-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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The built-in proxy management and anti-bot features make it reliable for complex sites, while the real-time dashboards are helpful for monitoring performance.
Robust web scraping with anti-bot protection, retries, throttling, flexible API for custom headers, cookies, proxies and real-time monitoring.
The free tier may not be enough to test API comprehensively.
Valentine O.
Information Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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A very valuable tool that doesn't add any overheard in complexity for the integration of maintenance of its use
Does exactly what i need and more, its an all in one scraping api, bar none. Shields my bots from the varied nature of websites across the internet
There could be more concurrent request allotted to the cheaper subscriptions
Michael N.
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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- Effective at reliably collecting data from websites that otherwise prove difficult or impossible, saving many hours or days of work.- Easy-to-use API.- Affordable cost/pricing.- Helpful customer support during several interactions, always ending with a positive resolution/outcome for whatever the issue was.
- Details of pricing are not always clear -- some scrapes may include charges that are not clearly documented on the pricing page. However, the pricing is reasonable overall so it is not a huge issue.- Not everything in the API may be fully documented, although this wasn't a hindrance to getting started.- Sometimes there is a lag to initial response from support. Most likely this is due to timezone differences and team size, and it hasn't been much of an issue since they've always successfully resolved any issue.
Brent P.
Real Estate, self-employed
Used monthly for less than 6 months
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Good, but although I have an IT background , I'm by no means an expert programmer so it has been a struggle to get up and running
Very effective. I am able to scrape thousands or Real Estate sites without being blocked
Fairly steep learning curve. It's a complicated subject and I used AI to write my program but still took me a while to get the hang of it. One thing that i happened was that I did not realize there was such a dramatic difference in the api credit usage depending on which proxy pool was used. The first month I used Scrapfly, my calls were almost all 6 credits per page scraped. I have a list of about 30,000 links to visit each month and that first month I was able to scrape all of them within my 200,000 limit. The next time I ran the program, it ran overnight and should only have been about half done but when I checked my dashboard I had hit my limit and still had half my urls unscraped. This happened because for some reason, this time it was using the "residential" proxy almost exclusively which is 30 api credits per call. I had no idea. Fixed the problem in my program by specifying to use the "datacenter" proxy (at 6 credits per hit) and just loop through my list a few times to retry any that come back with no results. There is no charge if no result. Now I just have to wait another month before I can run my program again which is frustrating because I've created a new program that uses ScrapFly but only needs a hundred or so credits each time I run it - which might be a few dozen times per month. I'm totally out of credits :(
Carmelo R.
Real Estate, 1-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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When i started using it it, it was a bit dificult for me because of my unexperience but once you got it, it is so easy to use and configure.
Its easy to use, and it allways works as expected.
It could be cheaper, but just to say something because it is a really good product , so it is worth it.
Philip W.
Information Services, 1-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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Scraping algorithm is the best among the different platforms we’ve tested. The company is also very helpful in reaching out to us on technical trouble we’ve encountered.
Pricing is slightly on the premium side. Wish it could be a bit cheaper!
Vladislav I.
Real Estate, self-employed
Used daily for less than 6 months
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It worked with websites where few other scrappers that I tried didn't.
It's an easy-to-use product. With the provided library, I could integrate and use Scrapfly into my NodeJS project in minutes.
There are no cons from my experience of the usage.
Diego R.
Computer Software, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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IP Rotation and selection of IP types are very easy to set up and very powerful in practice.
Sometimes it's hard to interpret documentation examples and apply them in my own code.
Rafael P.
Computer Software, 1-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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I extract data using SCRAPFLY and the antibot system of the site I need to extract does not identify that it is a bot. Before scrapfly I couldn't do it
The execution time for the Javascript Scenario is a maximum of 30 seconds
Hello, Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with SCRAPFLY on Capterra. We appreciate your positive feedback on the anti-bot system's effectiveness and ability to extract data successfully with SCRAPFLY. However, regarding your comment on the execution time for the Javascript Scenario, we would like to clarify that SCRAPFLY actually supports a maximum execution time of 120 seconds, not 30 seconds, as you mentioned in your review. If you want to know more about timeout: https://scrapfly.io/docs/scrape-api/understand-timeout We hope this clarifies any confusion, and we thank you again for choosing SCRAPFLY for your data extraction needs. Best regards,