About Scrapfly
Scrapfly is a web data platform that offers multiple APIs for accessing public web data. It includes a Web Scraping API, Cloud Browser API, Crawler API, Data Extraction API, and Screenshot API.
The platform provides managed Chromium over CDP, residential proxies, and AI extraction. It is designed for developers and AI agents needing reliable access to public web content.
Key features
- Web Scraping API returns rendered, structured pages with one HTTP call
- Cloud Browser API provides remote managed Chromium driven over CDP
- Crawler API supports full-site crawls with BFS/DFS depth control and webhook streaming
- Data Extraction API converts raw HTML into structured JSON using pre-trained models or custom rules
- Screenshot API captures full-page or viewport images in PNG, JPEG, WebP with diff monitoring
- AI Browser Agent allows natural language goal description for browser automation
Good fit for
- Scraping public web pages at scale
- Remote browser sessions for testing or automation
- Structured data extraction from product, article, review, or job pages
Scrapfly: questions and answers
- What is Scrapfly used for?
- Scrapfly provides APIs for web scraping, cloud browser sessions, crawling, data extraction, and screenshots. It is a good fit for scraping public web pages at scale; remote browser sessions for testing or automation; and structured data extraction from product, article, review, or job pages.
- Is Scrapfly open source?
- No. Scrapfly is proprietary (closed-source) software. In the Developer Tools category, open-source options include GoogleScraper, Coder and SonarQube.
- What are some alternatives to Scrapfly?
- Scrapfly competes with Diffbot.
Open-source alternatives to Scrapfly
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A Python module to scrape several search engines (like Google, Yandex, Bing, Duckduckgo, .
Apache-2.0vs SerpApi★ 2.9k
Coder
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MITvs Sublime Text★ 194k
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MITvs Unity★ 118k
Neovim
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Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
OSSvs Sublime Text★ 103k
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