Scraping Tools
Web scraping tools enable the automated extraction of structured data from websites. While some tools use AI to scrape data from many websites, others are more specialized and focus on a page type in a domain. We benchmarked the most popular tools across performance, scalability, and ease of use to help users choose the right solution for their needs.
Top 6 LLM Scrapers: ChatGPT, Perplexity & Gemini
Scraping ToolsBenchmarkNov 6We benchmarked how the top LLM scraper providers, including Bright Data, Oxylabs, and Apify, perform at extracting outputs from LLM platforms such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode. To ensure reliable results, we ran 1,000 tests per provider, repeating each prompt 10 times for consistency. The top-performing provider is detailed below. Providers missing…
- Scraping ToolsBenchmarkNov 4
Best Apify Alternatives: Pricing, Features Compared
Apify runs web scrapers called Actors and offers a marketplace with thousands of prebuilt Actors for sites like Amazon, Google Maps, and Instagram. We tested its alternatives in our scraping benchmarks and compared their features and pricing. We calculated each scraper’s effective cost, the price per successful request, from the success rates in our e-commerce…
- Scraping ToolsOpen World EvaluationNov 2
Top 11 Open Source Web Crawlers for LLM & AI
Recent advances in generative AI have reshaped what developers need from web crawlers. Agentic crawlers now use natural-language prompts to select links rather than fixed rules, and produce token-efficient markdown natively. At the same time, the classic frameworks for large-scale batch crawling remain irreplaceable for enterprise and research use. Language: Python | License: Apache 2.0…
- Scraping ToolsBenchmarkNov 2
5 Best Google Maps Scraper APIs: Tested & Ranked
To find the best Google Maps scraper, we benchmarked five web scraping providers, Apify, SerpApi, Oxylabs, Zyte and Nimble, by requesting the same 1,000 businesses from each. The businesses span 10 categories across 10 US cities, for 5,000 requests in total. Since all providers exceeded 90% success, we compared completion time: Only SerpApi and Apify…
- Scraping ToolsBenchmarkNov 2
We Tested the Best SERP Scraper APIs
We benchmarked 5 SERP providers using 7,000 live requests across Google, Bing, and Yandex. See which providers came out ahead on success rate and speed: Read the full methodology. We also run live requests every 15 min, with caching disabled, a 60s timeout, and 250+ queries across Google, Bing, and Yandex in the United States.…
- Scraping ToolsBenchmarkOct 23
5 Best Scraping Browsers
Scraping browsers come in two forms: remote browsers that plug into existing Playwright, Puppeteer, or Selenium scripts, and API-based solutions where you define browser actions in the request. We benchmarked the top scraping browsers on sites with login walls, infinite scroll, and strict anti-bot rules. Ideal for enterprise-scale projects with high traffic needs. Bright Data…
- Scraping ToolsBenchmarkOct 22
Best Glassdoor Scrapers: Bright Data, Oxylabs & Decodo
To compare how well different tools handle Glassdoor‘s CAPTCHAs, login overlays, and frequent layout changes, we tested 5 leading web data scrapers across 2,500 requests and tracked each provider’s success rate, completion time, and metadata coverage. You can read our benchmark methodology for more details on our testing process. Bright Data was the only provider…
- Scraping ToolsBenchmarkOct 22
Web Scraping Craigslist: Best Craigslist Scrapers
Craigslist’s page structure has stayed largely unchanged for years, simple, mostly static HTML with minimal JavaScript and few anti-bot defenses. To see how well scrapers handle that simplicity, we ran 500 Craigslist job postings through 5 providers, totaling 2,500 requests, and measured each one’s success rate and completion time. Since all five providers reached %100…