By Kate Gross 21 days ago, Apps and Software
Scrapingdog
Verdict: This detailed Scrapingdog review will be useful for those who are currently looking for a reliable web scraper and web crawler tool. The advantage of this resource is that it will suit both a professional developer and a beginner.
It automatically collects data from websites, even when you need to process a large amount of it. Now you can forget about the inevitable mistakes in manual data collection while getting accurate results quickly and effortlessly.
Fitted with a high-speed web scraping extension, premium proxy servers, JavaScript rendering, and a CAPTCHA checker, Scrapingdog brings a seamless user experience to developers of all levels. Their huge proxy pool contains several millions of proxies available for scraping data from sites with speed-limiting walls at any scale.
I find the Scrapingdog toolbar to be user-friendly and straightforward, making it a great choice even for developers with little experience. Even if you have never done web scraping before, you will quickly master the service and be able to start collecting and extracting data without much effort.
All you need to start the processing is to specify the URL of the desired site, the required tags, attributes, and geolocation. You can also take advantage of JavaScript rendering and proxy in a separate drop-down menu if necessary.
After completing all the preliminary operations, just start the process with one click and wait a bit until the scraping is completed and all the necessary data is collected.
Scrapindog makes web scraping free and secure by rotating IPs with every request from a huge list of proxy servers and bypassing every CAPTCHA it encounters, even complex ones created with cutting-edge CAPTCHA sources so that nothing stops you from collecting all the necessary information.
Thanks to rotating proxy servers, block-free scraping becomes a breeze whether from static or dynamic web pages. This is very handy, as you no longer need to use any code editors to change code and collect required data.
If you have ever done web scraping, you must have come across sites that load the target data after the HTML code is loaded. In this case, its JavaScript code makes some API calls that return data in JSON or XML format and then displays the data on the screen. The trouble is that such sites are not subject to scraping with a simple HTTP GET request using HTML editors.
However, Scrapingdog knows how to get around these limitations by using a real instance of Google Chrome to fully download and scrape the website data. The platform also comes with a wait feature, which comes in handy when it takes additional time to load a website. This way you will be able to load sites in Chrome before scraping results are returned.
With Scrapingdog you can benefit from Datacenter and Residential proxies with which you can check ads, monitor SEO, collect data, and apply for private browsing. Best of all, it frees you from installing various SEO software and web analysis tools, since everything is available here.
Many developers choose this service because it offers not only general web scraping APIs, but also specialized ones for LinkedIn, Google Search, and Zillow Scraper. This makes it easy to create custom scripts to collect data from any website.
Another highlight of the platform is its smooth data pipeline from any website, achieved by backing the infrastructure with a bunch of rotating proxy servers and headless Chrome.
On the dashboard, you can find the “Log Activity” page designed for tracking progress on the selected domain. This chip, which allows you to make timely decisions, elevates it above modern counterparts that miss such an opportunity.
In addition to 1000 free API calls with a maximum of 5 concurrent requests, Scrapingdog is available for free for 30 days with no feature limitations so you can try it.
There are four plans for purchase. The Lite plan is $30/mo. It comes with 5 concurrent requests, 200000 requests credits, Javascript rendering, datacenter & residential proxies, LinkedIn & Google Search API, geotargeting, etc.
The Standard plan is $90/mo. It offers up to 50 concurrent requests1000000 requests credits, priority email support, and all of the above from the Lite plan.
The Pro plan is $200/mo. It grants access to 3000000 request credits + 100 concurrent requests max.
The Enterprise is $500+/mo. In return, you get 200+ concurrent requests, 8000000+ requests credits, and all of the above from previous plans.
