Scrapfly

Scrapfly is a web scraping API that aims to simplify the process of extracting data from websites. According to the vendor, this solution caters to the needs of data engineers, analysts, digital marketers, growth hackers, e-commerce companies, and finance companies. It offers a range of features that can empower businesses across various industries to automate data collection tasks and gain valuable insights.

Key Features

Automatic Proxy Rotation: According to the vendor, Scrapfly provides automatic proxy rotation, which is said to help users bypass anti-bot solutions and potentially increase their success rate in web scraping.

Managed Headless Browsers: Scrapfly offers managed headless browsers, which the vendor claims can simplify the web scraping process and enable users to handle increased workloads without worrying about infrastructure.

Anti-Scraping Protection: The vendor states that Scrapfly's solution includes an ASP (Anti-Scraping Protection) feature that aims to shield users' scraping activities. They claim that regular updates ensure the effectiveness of this feature against major anti-scraping protection measures.

Screenshot: Scrapfly allows users to capture screenshots of webpages. Users have the option to take full-page screenshots or focus on specific elements, according to the vendor.

Ban Detection: Scrapfly's solution includes intelligent IP failover and cooling, utilizing a statistical model to detect and prevent bans while scraping, as claimed by the vendor.

Real-Time Dashboard: The vendor states that Scrapfly provides a real-time dashboard for users to monitor, analyze, introspect, debug, screenshot, and replay scraping activities. Users can access logs and resolve issues promptly, according to the vendor.

Proxies: Scrapfly offers a pool of datacenter and residential proxies. The vendor claims that the solution automatically upgrades the proxy network type to bypass anti-bot measures.

Persistent Sessions: According to the vendor, users can persist sessions on demand with Scrapfly, allowing them to maintain the same context across multiple requests.

Javascript Rendering: Scrapfly supports scraping with a real browser, enabling users to execute their own JavaScript code during the scraping process, as claimed by the vendor.

Caching System: The vendor states that Scrapfly provides an on-demand caching system, allowing users to rebuild datasets faster without overwhelming the target website.