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.
Top 5 Website Unblockers & Free Trials in 2026
Web unblockers can access pages that proxies fail to retrieve. We benchmarked the best web unblocker solutions with ~40,000 requests on real-world high-security websites (i.e., Amazon) and 6 lab tests: Price comparison of the website unblockers The following providers offer a limited volume of free credits for small-scale scraping projects, with no upfront payment required:…
How to Bypass CAPTCHA in 2026 (reCAPTCHA & hCaptcha)
Modern CAPTCHA and human-verification systems use a mix of challenge-response tests, browser signals, server-side token validation, and adaptive challenges. Attempting to bypass CAPTCHA on third-party websites can violate the terms of service or trigger account or IP blocks. The better approach is to use official APIs, reduce request rates, or implement a modern bot-management solution…
Top 10 E-Commerce Scrapers in 2026: Benchmarked & Tested
Many e-commerce sites today are JavaScript-rendered, have anti-bot protections, and use regional versions (different domains, currencies). We benchmarked the leading scrapers across 1,700 URLs (including Amazon & Walmart) to measure speed, data accuracy, and cost. Below is the summary of our winners based on real performance data: Best e-commerce price scrapers for real-time competitor monitoring…
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. Best TikTok scrapers:…
Top 10 Alternative Data Use Cases for Investment
Investors are always seeking new sources of data to gain an edge in their investment strategies. Alternative data can provide unique, non-public insights into companies, industries, and markets. Explore why alternative data is important for investment, the top 10 alternative data use cases, and more: Alternative data use cases for investment Social media data 1.…
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 Twitter (X) Scrapers in 2026: 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. Twitter (X) scrapers benchmark Since all providers reached 100% success rate, we compared their completion time. See our benchmark…
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 AI Web Scraping Tools: Bright Data, Oxylabs & Apify
Sites change their layout and the fields you need from a page shift over time. These changes break manually-coded scrapers. AI scrapers can be updated with simple prompts and are able to self heal to provide consistent results. We benchmarked top AI web scraping tools across the top 10 e-commerce domains to see their performance,…
Web Scraping for Recruiters: Top Tools & Techniques
Recruiters rely on web data to build talent pools, monitor hiring demand, and benchmark compensation. But how you collect that data matters. Many automation tools use cookie/session-based scraping (higher risk of bans), while proxy-based scraping APIs and managed scrapers are built for scale and reliability. Ways to collect recruiting data from the web 1) Dedicated…