# Web Scraping

* [Apify](#apify)
* [ProxyCrawl](#proxycrawl)
* [Scraper API](#scraper-api)
* [PhantomJsCloud](#phantomjscloud)

## Apify

[Apify Home Page](https://www.apify.com/)

* *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](https://proxycrawl.com)

* *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](https://www.scraperapi.com/)

* *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](https://phantomjscloud.com/)

* *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.