Data Solutions &amp; Practices

A web archive holds pages that were collected before you asked for them, so you can pull them without crawling the sites yourself. What each provider stores, and how much of it they will hand over, varies a lot. We tested 4 of them with sample queries to see how they work and what they…

Proxy Use Cases

Best LinkedIn Proxies: Automation & Scraping

We benchmarked different proxy types for LinkedIn scraping and account management. A proxy alone won’t keep a LinkedIn account safe. Success comes from slow, human-like actions, one high-quality residential or mobile proxy per account, and avoiding aggressive automation. The providers below are compared for general proxy capabilities and lawful, authorized use cases. Bright Data offers…

Web Datasets

Feature Comparison

LinkedIn Datasets: Profile & Company Data

LinkedIn datasets can be categorized into profile data and company data: It’s important to know the different types of LinkedIn data available when buying from a verified provider or seeking a specific company dataset. Common fields across all providers: The following fields are present in all three providers and were removed from the tables above…

Web Data Scraping

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. Vendors are ranked by the number of structured metadata fields…

Proxy Types

IPv6 Proxy Providers: Pricing & Performance

An IPv6 proxy routes traffic through an IPv6 exit address, but IPv6 support does not mean the same thing across proxy providers. A vendor may support IPv6 on its residential network, expose both IPv4 and IPv6 through a mixed pool, or allow users to request IPv6 addresses. This benchmark measures residential proxy performance. Use it…

Scraping Tools

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…

Scraping Tools

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…

Social Media Scraping

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…

E-commerce Scraping

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…

Proxy Types