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 Facebook Scrapers: Apify, Bright Data & Decodo
Using Python and a managed Facebook scraping API lets you collect public posts, comments, likes, and shares. This tutorial demonstrates how to scrape Facebook posts by keyword and retrieve their URLs via Google search. Then it explains how to extract detailed post data using the API, along with tips for scaling the process with tools…
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…
Best Instagram Scrapers to Scrape Instagram Data
Instagram remains one of the most aggressive platforms for blocking automated scraping due to advanced anti-bot measures like TLS fingerprinting and IP reputation checks. Whether you need a high-performance scraper API or a custom Python script, this guide evaluates the top tools, including Apify Instagram Scraper and Bright Data Instagram Scraper. The vendors with links…
Best Twitter (X) Scrapers: Benchmarked
We benchmarked the top Twitter (X) scrapers across 1000 URLs, for a total of 5000 requests. To help you choose the right tool for your Twitter scraping projects, we have categorized the top performers below. Since all providers reached 100% success rate, we compared their completion time. See our benchmark methodology for more details. When…
Best TikTok Scrapers: Scrape Video & Profile 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 tested Bright Data, Apify, and Decodo by running 500 unique TikTok video URLs per provider. We measured two dimensions: validation success rate and the breadth of available metadata fields. See our methodology…
Best Social Media Scrapers: 75K Requests Tested
We executed 75,000+ test requests across X, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook to find the most reliable social media scraping API. Whether you need social media data scraping for business information extraction or a high-scale social media scraping solution, our benchmark reveals the top performers. Use the tool below to estimate your monthly budget based on…