Scrapingdog Overview

2024-06-05

Scrapingdog was founded in 2018 with the goal of revolutionizing the world of web data extraction, making it blockage-free and hassle-free.

Our mission is guided by Manthan's vision: to simplify and streamline the web scraping process for everyone. We understand the challenges faced by businesses and individuals in their quest to extract valuable data from the web.

Overall Scrapingdog performs very well on Scrapeway's benchmarks supporting most web scraping targets and bypassing most anti-bot measures.

Scrapingdog offers core web scraping API features like headless browser scraping, anti-bot bypass and proxy support though uniquely it provides special APIs for specific web scraping targets.

screengrab of scrapingdog web dashboard
dashboard home
screengrab of scrapingdog scraping logs dashboard
scrape logs
screengrab of scrapingdog dedicated scraper page
dedicated scraper
screengrab of scrapingdog docs
docs

Pros

  • Low entry point of $40.
  • Above average performance and price value for supported targets.
  • Autoparse can output structured JSON for some targets.
  • High concurrency for higher plans.
  • Dedicated APIs for Google Search, Amazon, Linkedin, Twitter and Indeed scraping.
  • No charge for blocked scrape requests.

Cons

  • No integration SDKs.
  • Basic web interface.
  • Limited feature set and headless browser support.
  • Some targets are not supported (see benchmarks).
  • Credits do not carry over month-to-month.

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Scrapingdog vs Other Services

Here's how Scrapingdog compares against other web scraping APIs in terms of success rate, speed and cost.

# Service Success % Speed Cost $/1000
1 Scrapfly
94%
11.1s
$3.69
2 WebScrapingAPI
81%
22.8s
$2.42
3 Scraperapi
72%
8.2s
$5.17
4 Zenrows
70%
6.6s
$4.05
5 Scrapingbee
66%
3.5s
$3.12
6 Scrapingdog
51%
5.1s
$1.75
7 Scrapingant
46%
13.7s
$1.99
Data range Nov 29 - Dec 06

This data is based on the averages of Scrapeway's weekly benchmarks covering 12 most popular web scraping targets and overall:

  • Scrapingdog has a below-average success rate of 50.6% compared to industry average of 68.4%
  • Scrapingdog has an above-average scraping speed of 5.1s compared to industry average of 10.1s
  • Scrapingdog has a below-average price of $1.8/1000 scrapes compared to industry average of $3.2

Scrapingdog Benchmarks

Scrapeway runs weekly benchmarks for Scrapingdog for the most popular web scraping targets.

Target Success % Speed Cost $/1000
51%
5.1s
$1.75
100%
6.3s
$2.2
100%
6.8s
$2.2
100%
7.2s
$2.2
71%
4.9s
$2.13
56%
1.3s
-
46%
1.9s
$2.2
16%
6.0s
$2.2
16%
10.0s
$2.2
1%
6.1s
$2.2
0%
-
-
0%
6.7s
$40.0
Data range Nov 29 - Dec 06

Scrapingdog Pricing

Scrapingdog is a credit-based service where each scrape request can cost 1-25 credits depending on the used features and required anti-bot bypass.

Plan Price Credits Concurrency
Lite $40 200,000 5
Standard $90 1,000,000 50
Pro $200 3,000,000 100
Enterprise $500 8,000,000 200
Custom - - -

Overall Scrapingdog pricing is inline with other web scraping APIs, with a slightly lower than average entry-point of $40 and above average concurrency rates.

Scrapingdog Features

Overall, Scrapingdog focuses on core features and distinct web scraping target. It offers the standard feature set of for all plans:

Feature Availability
Integrations No
Proxy support Datacenter, Residential extra cost
Geolocation 15 countries
Webhook support Yes
Javascreipt rendering Yes, at extra cost
Custom JS evaluation No
Browser control No
Screenshots Yes, full page only
Sessions Yes, persistent IP

To add, Scrapingdog offers some unique features at no extra cost included with every plan:

  • Autoparse for select targets that outputs structured JSON.

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