Scrapeowl Overview
Scrapeowl launched in late 2020 with goal of providing a simpela dn powerful web data extraction API.
ScrapeOwl is a simple and powerful web scraping API that manages proxies, headless browsers, and HTML parsing. We develop the best tooling for you to get what you need by removing the complexity. Simply specify the website and the element you want.
Overall Scrapeowl performs relatively well with Scrapeway's benchmarks showing it to be able to bypass anti-bot measures and offer good value across the board. Scrapeowl offers core web scraping API features like proxy support, geolocation, and Javascript rendering.
- Low entry point of $29.
- No charge for failed scrape requests.
- Web UI player for testing and experimenting.
- Above average performance and price value for supported targets.
- No integration SDKs.
- Below average concurrency.
- Limited feature set and headless browser support.
- Some targets are not supported (see benchmarks).
- Credits do not carry over month-to-month.
- Credits are charged for blocked requests of status code 200.
How Scrapeowl compares against other web scraping APIs in success rate, speed and cost.
Scrapeowl Pricing
Scrapeowl is a credit-based service where each scrape request can cost 1-25 credits depending on the used features and proxy level.
| Plan | Price | Credits | Concurrency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bootstrap | 29 | 250,000 | 10 |
| Startup | 99 | 1,000,000 | 25 |
| Business | 249 | 3,000,000 | 50 |
| Custom | — | — | — |
Overall Scrapeowl offers a good entry value of $29 for 250,000 credits which based on benchmarks can get you quite far for easier targets making it a good choice for smaller projects.
Scrapeowl Features
Overall, Scrapeowl offers a wide range of features matching the industry average. It offers the standard feature set for all plans:
| Feature | Availability |
|---|---|
| Integrations | No |
| Proxy support | Datacenter default, Residential optional |
| Geolocation | 15 countries |
| Webhook support | No |
| Javascreipt rendering | Yes, at extra cost |
| Custom JS evaluation | Yes |
| Browser control | No |
| Screenshots | Yes, full page only |
| Sessions | Yes, persistent IP |
To add, Scrapeowl offers some unique features at no extra cost included with every plan:
- HTML parsing through provided XPath or CSS selectors.