Social Media Scraping
Social media scrapers enable the extraction of user-generated content, follower metrics, and engagement data from platforms like Instagram, LinkedIn, and X. We benchmarked tools for public data collection based on platform compatibility and data accuracy.
Best Twitter (X) Scrapers: Benchmarked
Social Media ScrapingBenchmarkNov 3Five web scraping APIs each received the same 1,000 X URLs, 500 profiles and 500 posts, for 5,000 requests in total. We recorded the success rate, completion time and number of parsed metadata fields of every response. See our benchmark methodology for more details. structured JSON, HTML only, not supported. When scraping X, you get…
- Social Media ScrapingOpen World EvaluationNov 3
Best Instagram Scrapers to Scrape Instagram Data
We tested seven web scraping APIs on 1,500 Instagram profiles, posts and reels, 9,500 requests in total, measuring success rate, completion time and the number of parsed metadata fields for each. See our benchmark methodology for more detail on testing process. Bright Data, Apify and Nimble returned JSON for all three Instagram page types, and…
- Social Media ScrapingBenchmarkNov 3
Best Social Media Scrapers: 37K Requests Tested
We sent 37,000 test requests to 7 scraping APIs across 6,500 Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok and X pages to find the most reliable social media scraper. Average metadata fields shows how many structured data fields a provider returns per successful page, such as follower count, post date or caption. JSON providers deliver these fields ready…
- Social Media ScrapingInsightNov 3
Best Facebook Scrapers: Apify, Oxylabs & Decodo
We benchmarked seven web scraping APIs with 9,000 Facebook requests on 1,500 URLs: 500 profiles, 500 posts and 500 reels. For every request we measured success rate, completion time, and the number of parsed metadata fields returned. Bright Data returned JSON for every Facebook page type. Apify returned JSON for profiles and posts, SerpApi and…
- Social Media ScrapingBenchmarkNov 3
Best TikTok Scrapers: Scrape Video Data
A TikTok scraper collects public data from TikTok, including video metadata, profile details, engagement metrics, and comments, without using TikTok’s official API. We benchmarked six web scraping APIs with 6,000 TikTok requests, sending each provider the same 1,000 URLs: 500 profiles and 500 posts. For every request we measured success rate, completion time, and the…
- Social Media ScrapingBenchmarkNov 3
The Best LinkedIn Scrapers
We benchmarked four scraping APIs with 6,000 LinkedIn requests, sending each provider the same 1,500 URLs: 500 profiles, 500 company pages and 500 posts. For every request we measured success rate, completion time, and the number of parsed metadata fields returned. Read our methodology for details about the LinkedIn benchmark. Bright Data was the only…
- Social Media ScrapingBenchmarkOct 22
Top 7 Video Scrapers: Tested & Ranked
We tested the top 7 video scraping providers to see how they handle video metadata on the top video platform, totaling 6,000 requests, and measured their success rate, response time, and metadata fields. To see how we calculated these metrics, read video scraping benchmark methodology. Different providers return different amounts of metadata for the same…