Web Data Scraping

We scraped more than 30 million web pages using 50+ products from six web data infrastructure companies. We benchmarked these tools to see how well they handle enterprise web data use cases: Notes on the benchmark table: * Represents the percentage of page types where a scraping API was available with a 90% or higher…

Open World Evaluation

Compared the Best Web Scraping Tools in 2026

We cover 13+ of the top web scraping tools, split into two categories: For the API-based tools, we ran 12,500 real requests across 3,000+ URLs, covering e-commerce, SERP, and social media, to measure success rates and response times. See the full benchmark These are managed “send a URL, get data back” services. You don’t manage…

Web Data Scraping

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Best AI Web Scraping Tools in 2026 (Free & Paid)

AI web scrapers extract data by interpreting a page’s content rather than relying on fixed CSS selectors, so they keep working when a site changes layout. Compare the top tools on type, free tier, and pricing model. We included tools that use AI, such as LLMs, NLP, or vision models, to interpret page structure without…

E-commerce Scraping

Open World Evaluation

Best Google Shopping APIs in 2026

Selecting the best Google Shopping API depends on whether a business needs to manage its own Merchant Center data or collect public Google Shopping results for market intelligence. Google’s official Merchant API is designed to manage Merchant Center and product data programmatically, while third-party APIs such as SerpApi are used to scrape public Google Shopping…

Social Media Scraping

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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…

Social Media Scraping

Best LinkedIn Scrapers: Bright Data, Apify & PhantomBuster

We benchmarked the best LinkedIn scraper tools using 9,000 requests across posts, profiles, and job listings. This guide covers two main areas: This chart compares the daily success rates of LinkedIn scraper APIs based on live tests conducted every 15 minutes: Proxy-based LinkedIn scrapers use their own proxy infrastructure, including IP addresses and servers, to…

Benchmarked the Best Web Scraping APIs

We benchmarked the best web scraping APIs using 12,500 requests across 3,000+ real-world URLs in e-commerce, search engines (SERP), and social media. See the performance of tools: price per request, response time, success rate, and how much data each API actually returns. The two charts below plot median response time against the average number of…

Tested the Best SERP Scraper APIs in 2026

We benchmarked the leading SERP providers using 18,000 live requests across Google, Bing, and Yandex. See the top 6 providers outperforming in our speed and data richness tests: Compare providers’ median response time and the average number of fields that they returned in our benchmark: 1,200 queries were used in this benchmark, including a total…

Social Media Scraping

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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…

Web Data Scraping

Large-Scale Web Scraping: Techniques & Challenges

We benchmarked leading web scraper APIs with 12,500 requests to e-commerce platforms and search engines. Then, we tested the reliability of the underlying services (i.e. residential proxies) with 5,000 and 100,000 parallel requests. Based on these experiences, we outline how to efficiently and ethically scrape large-scale data. Explore the top vendors, challenges of large-scale data…