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 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…
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…
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…
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 Airbnb Scrapers: Bright Data, Apify & Oxylabs
We tested six web scraping providers on Airbnb, sending a total of 1,500 scrape requests across all providers. Each provider was given the same set of vacation rental listing URLs and measured on completion time, success rate, and available metadata fields per listing. You can read our benchmark methodology for more details on our testing…
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…
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…
Best Zillow Scraper APIs Compared: Performance review
We benchmarked best five web scraping providers on Zillow, one of the top real estate domains, running over 1,250 scrape requests across all providers. Each provider received an identical set of property listing URLs and was evaluated on completion time, success rate, and the number of structured data fields returned per listing. We also analyzed…
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…
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…