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 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: Perceptions of social media have been shown to influence stock…
Large-Scale Web Scraping: 7 Providers Benchmarked
We ran two benchmarks against live websites, from 5 to 5,000 concurrent requests. The first sent 260,000 requests through four web unblockers across the Tranco top 10,000 domains, plus a markdown extraction test on 10,000 URLs. The second fetched 65,000 product and search pages from each of five scraping providers across 100 e-commerce domains. Metrics…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
Best Glassdoor Datasets in 2026
Glassdoor datasets offer useful insights into job listings, employer reviews, and salaries, but they are not the exclusive source of labor-market or employer-brand data. We review the four top providers of Glassdoor datasets: Bright Data, Coresignal, Oxylabs, and Actowiz. Our evaluation covers each provider’s dataset structure, extraction techniques, update schedules, delivery options, and pricing models.…
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…
Top 4 Google Play Scraping Providers Compared
We benchmarked four web scraping providers across Google Play product page URLs, sending 4,000 requests in total. For each request, we measured how reliably the provider returned data, how long it took from submission to final response, and how many metadata fields the response contained. Only providers with a success rate above 90% were included…