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24 alternatives to ScrapingBee (formerly ScrapingNinja)

The easiest web scraping API on the web

ScrapingBee is a web scraping API designed to simplify data extraction from websites. It handles the technical complexities of scraping at scale, allowing developers to focus on retrieving the specific data they need… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. ScrapingBee (formerly ScrapingNinja) launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Turn any website into an API in just a few seconds.

    2019 · simplescraper.io · its alternatives →

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    Swiss army knife for high-performance web scraping

    2023 · scrapeninja.net · its alternatives →

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    Crawly▲606

    Never write another web scraper

    2016 · crawly.diffbot.com · its alternatives →

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    Scrape the web at scale without getting blocked

    2021 · datashake.com · its alternatives →

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    ScrapeOwl▲389

    Simple and powerful web scraping API

    2020 · scrapeowl.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, This is Jan, founder of Apify, a web scraping and automation platform. Drawing on our team's years of experience, today we're launching Crawlee [1], the web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js that's designed for the fastest development and maximum reliability in production. For details, see the short video [2] or read the announcement blog post [3]. Main features: - Supports headless browsers with Playwright or Puppeteer - Supports raw HTTP crawling with Cheerio or JSDOM - Automated parallelization and scaling of crawlers for best performance - Avoids blocking using…

    2022 · crawlee.dev · its alternatives →

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    Web scraping made simple — extract data with our free Chrome extension and powerful cloud platform. Turn websites into structured data at scale, via dashboard or API.

    2019 · simplescraper.io · its alternatives →

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    ScrapeIN'▲128

    Effortless data extraction from any website

    2022 · soax.com · its alternatives →

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    Effortless web scraping toolkit for businesses & developers

    2025 · scrapeless.com · its alternatives →

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    Crawlee▲229

    Build reliable web scrapers and robots, fast!

    2022 · crawlee.dev · its alternatives →

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    The API you need for efficient scraping!

    2019 · scraping-bot.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey all! I'm building these collection of APIs to help query SERP, PDP and Reviews data from Ecommerce sites solo since the past few years. I have hundreds of customers and revenue. ScrapingBee (a popular scraping API service) has started copying me now so I thought of doing a Show HN finally. Please butcher my product. I'd really appreciate your feedback. Do reach out via email if you'd like extra free credits, will add them to your account if your email address doesn't look like spam.

    2024 · docs.unwrangle.com · its alternatives →

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    A complete and versatile web scraper. Contribute to ruipgil/scraperjs development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Cloud hosted data extraction tool

    2016 · datascraping.co · its alternatives →

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    The easiest way to scrape the internet.

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    I'd like to invite everyone to try out DontBeEvil.rip, an experimental search engine for developers. tl;dr $ alias rip="curl -G -H 'Accept: text/plain' --url https://dontbeevil.rip/search --data-urlencode " $ rip 'q=Heartbleed bug' DontBeEvil.rip is a year long experiment to see if a small team can build a developer-focused search engine that is self-sustaining on $10 monthly subscriptions. It works by only indexing high-quality resources that are relevant to developers. You won't get useless listicles because we'll never crawl them. Relevant urls are harvested from HN,…

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Turn websites into APIs

    2025 · scrapegraphai.com · its alternatives →

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    scrape-it▲186

    A Node.js scraper for humans.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Scrape the web at scale without getting blocked

    2023 · datashake.com · its alternatives →

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    Easy to use no-code web scraping and data extraction tool

    2023 · browserhub.io · its alternatives →

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    Two months ago, I started building this side-project in the morning, before my full-time job. A visual and easy-to-use web scraping app. Please, roast it a bit so I can work on improving it. Thanks.

    2023 · mrscraper.com · its alternatives →

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    Performs analysis of a webpage to figure out the best way how to scrape its data. Provide a URL and data points to find and get back a detailed dashboar...

    2018 · apify.com · its alternatives →

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    Automate website data extraction in a few clicks

    2020 · scraper.ai · its alternatives →

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