Web Scraping

• Apify

• ProxyCrawl

• Scraper API

• PhantomJsCloud

Apify

Apify Home Page

• Free tier: 5,000 Free Page Crawls Per Month

• Pros: Handles proxies, provides simple interface and url classification to make scraping easier

• Limitations: Rate limited to 1 crawler at a time, data retention of 7 days.

ProxyCrawl

ProxyCrawl Home Page

• Free tier: 1,000 Free API Calls

• Pros: Bypass blocks, captchas and allows to scrape javascript pages with a simple API without managing proxies. Supports all websites.

• Limitations: Rate limited to 20 requests per second, may be increased upon request.

Scraper API

Scraper API Home Page

• Free tier: 1,000 Free API Calls Per Month

• Pros: Handles proxies, browsers, and CAPTCHAs for you, so you can scrape any web page with a simple API call.

• Limitations: Rate limited to 5 requests per second, may be increased upon request.

PhantomJsCloud

PhantomJsCloud Home Page

• Free tier: About 500 pages/day ($0.05/day in credit)

• Pros: Browser Automation, PDF Generation, Screenshots, Full request/response details in JSON. Scales to hundreds of parallel requests.

• Limitations: Free tier blocked from using the Builtin Anonymous Proxy system.