Web Data Scraping
Web data scraping refers to the methodologies, and tools for programmatically extracting structured data from websites, such as DOM parsing, API interaction, and headless browser automation.
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…
eBay Scraping: Top 6 Providers Compared
We benchmarked eBay across 4 web scraping providers, totaling 1,400 requests over search and product pages of 7 eBay country sites, measuring both success rate and end-to-end completion time. You can read more about our benchmark methodology. Because only Bright Data and Apify returned structured JSON, they were the only providers whose output could be…
5 Best Google Maps Scraper APIs: Tested & Ranked
To find the best Google Maps scraper, we benchmarked the top web scraping providers, Apify, Oxylabs, Octoparse, and SerpApi by running 100 searches for each. We tested 10 categories and analyzed 4,000 business listings. Google Maps listing data was more accessible than Google Maps reviews in our reviews scraping benchmark. Top providers reached 100% success…
Top 5 Home Depot Scrapers Benchmarked & Compared
We benchmarked five web data providers on Home Depot, each fetching the same 50 product and search pages at 5 concurrent requests, for a total of 250 requests. You can read more about our benchmark methodology. Bright Data offers a dedicated scraper API for Home Depot, while Apify provides a general e-commerce actor. Because both…
Top 6 Best Real Estate Scrapers: Bright Data, Apify & Oxylabs
We benchmarked six web scraping providers across five major real estate domains, running 1,500 property listing URLs through each provider for a total of 9,000 requests. See the methodology section for more details on the testing process. Apify does not offer dedicated actors for Realtor, Rightmove, and Realestate.au, so these domains were excluded from Apify’s…
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…
Top 5 Amazon Review Scrapers Compared
To compare how web data scraping providers handle Amazon review extraction, we tested 5 web scraping providers on the same set of Amazon product review URLs, totaling 2,500 requests across all providers. Read our benchmark methodology for more detail on our testing process. Amazon was the most accessible platform in our reviews scraping benchmark. The…
Web Crawler Benchmark to Feed Websites to AI
We benchmarked four crawl APIs across three domains of varying difficulty at three max depth levels (5, 10, 20) with a 1,000-page limit, measuring crawl coverage, execution time, link discovery, markdown link quality, and title extraction accuracy. If you aim to: You can read our benchmark methodology. Firecrawl consistently crawled around 100 pages on theregister.com…
Review Scraping Benchmark: Bright Data, Oxylabs & Decodo
We tested 5 web scraping providers across 5 major review platforms for a total of 12,500 requests, and measured success rate, completion time, and metadata fields. You can read benchmark methodology section for more details on the testing process. Bright Data achieved the highest average success rate at 78% across all five review platforms and…
E-Commerce Scraper: 4 Providers Benchmarked
We benchmarked four web data providers across 100 e-commerce domains, fetching 65,000 product and search pages each at 5 to 5,000 concurrent requests. Averaged across concurrency levels, Bright Data reached the highest success rate (76%) at a 16-second median. Apify recorded the highest median response time at 46 seconds. Response time is reported as the…