# ScraperAPI Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is ScraperAPI the right Data Extraction solution for you? Explore 62 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/238595/Scraper-API/reviews --- ScraperAPI 4.6 (62) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/238595/Scraper-API/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated August 24th, 2025 # Reviews of ScraperAPI Ease of use 4.9 Customer Service 4.6 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews Emre K Security Software EngineerComputer & Network Security, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “If I review my ScraperAPI experience, I can come to the conclusion that it is great software for me and my company.“ August 18, 2023 JS John S FounderComputer Software, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “Breakdown of credit costs can be confusing, especially as you use premium parameters.“ February 25, 2025 BH Bryan H Director of Technical OperationsMarketing and Advertising, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “Documentation is very detailed and makes it simple to get up and running.“ March 5, 2024 Jack W Co-founderResearch, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “Wouldn't recommend to a friend unless you're trialling a concept.“ September 16, 2023 DS Diego S Software Engineer and Co founderComputer Software, 11 - 50 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “Thanks to scraperapi we can focus on extracting data and forget about ip rotations, captchas, headers, etc.“ November 24, 2021 Michael W Full Stack DeveloperInformation Technology and Services, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “The thing I like the least is the low success times (we only have this issue with Instagram).“ May 29, 2022 GT Gerlando T Web Content ManagerHigher Education, 1,001 - 5,000 employeesUsed the software for: I used a free trial. “Our bot was having issues retrieving data from various online research websites, and ScraperAPI unlocked its full potential in minutes.“ December 8, 2021 IS Ian S Software EngineerEducation Management, Self-employedUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “I'd love to be able to take advantage of the premium proxies and the javascript scraping however unfortunately those features are a bit pricy for me and out of budget. “ November 14, 2021 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 62 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Arun K. Associate Research Scholar Research Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Using ScraperAPI in scholarly-python-package" November 14, 2021 5.0 Google has been pretty good at blocking programmatic requests even for non-commercial, self-archival purposes and ScraperAPI has been extremely effective and getting around those. While getting the requests routed through ScraperAPI has been much slower than say, routing it through one of the free proxy servers, Pros The ease of use and the fact that there were multiple ways of using it made this desirable. The simple API usage let me prototype and decide what element I need to look for, and used the proxy method in the software to make the integration seamless. Cons ScraperAPI does not allow for web elements to be rendered, at least not until I am on the most expensive plan. While this has not been limiting so far, the lack of this feature has led me to use ScraperAPI along with other proxy methods as opposed to using ScraperAPI exclusively. Alternatives considered [Bright Data](https://www.capterra.com/p/208755/Bright-Data/) Reason for choosing ScraperAPI ScraperAPI had a free trial and a free plan, which let me play around and test the features before deciding to commit to this service. The alternatives did not have a free plan which did not encourage using it as much. Review Source Response from ScraperAPI November 17, 2021 Hi Arun, thank you for your review! You are correct, at the moment only our Business and Enterprise plans offer JS Rendering, but we are working on offering them for the lower volume plans as well. Stay tuned! VR Verified Reviewer Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great Value to access web pages behind protection for a decent price" November 13, 2021 5.0 We are a Data Acquisition company, Due to our scale we were struggling to build and maintain inhouse solutions to avoid bot detection. The proxy service such as Luminati are impossible for us to afford and we cannot also hire a developer to work on our in-house solution. Scraper API provides us with an easy to use scraping option for tougher sites without any commitment in a fraction of cost. Pros I love that I am able to access Amazon, g2.com, or any website with protection with even the basic package without JS. This allows to do data acquisition faster and at cheaper rates. Also, I like the pricing models(no commitments), 29 USD for 250k requests which serves our purpose perfectly. Also, Shout out to \[SENSITIVE CONTENT\] in support who helped to resolve a billing issue in a day. Cons I wish they allowed the remaining credits to be rolled over to the next month. If this is implemented, it would even provide a lot of value to startups such as ours Alternatives considered [ScrapingBee](https://www.capterra.com/p/195060/ScrapingBee/) Reason for choosing ScraperAPI We felt like scraper API was Cheaper and had better support Review Source Response from ScraperAPI November 16, 2021 Hi! Thank you for your review! Although we do not allow rolling over credits, we are currently working on a feature that will do something similar. Stay tuned! VR Verified Reviewer CTO Online Media Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Prices increased by 1000% and quality degraded like crazy" September 27, 2022 1.0 Pros Back in the day it was the cheapest scraping provider, they charged by request no matter if you used JS or not. Cons I couldn't use up my credits any more because over 80% of the requests were failing. Review Source Response from ScraperAPI October 10, 2022 Hello, thanks for leaving us a review. You're right in that we increased the pricing recently. The price increase was done in three ways (domain/credits based, monthly price and feature/credits) this means that users that scrape small sites still pay a cheap price while bigger and harder pages to scrape pay slightly more compensated by a higher success rates for those pages. Features are now added to more or less all plans and users get the option to use them and get charged with credits rather than paying an extra flat fee monthly for the same feature (which was our previous model). Nevertheless, ScraperAPI always was and still is one of the cheapest scraping providers (and we aim to remain one of the cheapest), especially when it comes to data extraction from major platforms, such as Google or Amazon. We are more than happy to to offer you a customised plan that would fit your needs, just get in touch via support@scraperapi.com and someone there will help you out. Emre K. Security Software Engineer Computer & Network Security Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Why pay a lot of money for manufacturer APIs when there is ScraperAPI?" August 18, 2023 5.0 If I review my ScraperAPI experience, I can come to the conclusion that it is great software for me and my company. Pros ScraperAPI's cheap price and variety of API services are my favorite features. Cons My least favorite feature of ScraperAPI is that some APIs are too restrictive. Alternatives considered [Apify](https://www.capterra.com/p/150854/Apify/) Reason for choosing ScraperAPI There were times when I preferred alternative products due to different API options. Review Source Michael W. Full Stack Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Essential Tool for Scraping." May 29, 2022 5.0 Pros We use this tool to scrape publically available profiles on Instagram and it has worked wonderfully for most of the time. The price is also cheaper than other scrapers I've found and/or use. There are times when the success drops, but they never charge for failures and always work on a fix. Unfortunately, right now is one of the times with a low success rate, but it still works whereas the other scraper I tried didn't work at all (to be fair I didn't contact them about it, so as to give them an opportunity to fix it). Thank you for always working on this, and I hope to be able to use this tool for as long as we require this data for our product. :) Cons The thing I like the least is the low success times (we only have this issue with Instagram). Review Source Response from ScraperAPI October 10, 2022 Hi Michael, thanks for the review! At the moment we don't scrape Instagram unfortunately so that is the reason for the low success rates. Otherwise, you're good to scrape pretty much any other page out there. Amin M. CTO Automotive Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Goodbye to manual data gathering" December 24, 2021 5.0 It allowed us to access lots of information that are related to our business and helped us with the categorization of these information Pros The documentations are very simple and crystal clear. The ability to rotate IP's from using multiple jeo locations. The ability to render javascript which makes is feasible with SPAs ( single page applications ) Notification once the usage reaches to 50% of the package quota Cons Only the ability to bypass the captacha tokens or any anti-scraping mechanism Review Source Response from ScraperAPI March 3, 2022 Hi Amin, thank you for your review! Eusebio B. CEO Internet Used the software for: 2+ years ### "My API for Amazon, Booking and others" November 19, 2021 5.0 I use it daily on various projects and it has never failed. Customer service is attentive and fast. Pros I try a lot of scraper software, but this is the best value for money. It works, which is what really matters. Cons It would be great to have more auto extractors of information like they do with Amazon. Review Source Response from ScraperAPI November 26, 2021 Hi Eusebio, thank you for your review and for your suggestion! Rohit G. CEO Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Best scrapper api" November 21, 2021 5.0 its good but pricing is high Pros Its able to function easily and easy to implement for a developer Cons Multi national support is on a very priced pla. I am not able to use it for client level purpose Reason for choosing ScraperAPI Ip rotation Review Source Response from ScraperAPI December 8, 2021 Hello Rohit, thank you for your review! We are currently working on a different pricing plan to address some limitations such as the one you mentioned. Stay tuned! Adeyeye G. CEO Computer Software Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Manomite Review" November 15, 2021 5.0 Honestly I love ScraperAPI. It makes my world easy. I have been wanting to build a search engine for years but was discouraged when my traditional crawlers were blocked. I saw Scrapper and the whole story changed. Pros I love the IP rotation features because it gives my crawlers great power to crawl any data without having the fear of being blocked. Cons Some web pages do contains honey pots. ScraperAPI cannot detect honey pot links which is not very satisfactory. If honey pot links could be detected... It will be a very great deal. Reason for choosing ScraperAPI I chose scrapperAPI because it's affordable and easy to use Review Source Response from ScraperAPI December 8, 2021 Hello Adeyeye, thank you for your review and your suggestion! Shekhor B. Founder & CEO Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best Proxy Solution! in the market right now" December 14, 2021 5.0 Pros I have been using ScraperAPI for last 2 years ro so. They were not flawless in the beginning, but they were always willing to work based on the clients feedback and tweak their infrastructure to fix the issue. The thing I liked the most: 1. Auto Proxy Rotation 2. Auto CAPTCHA Handling 3. JS Rendering 4. Geo Location Targeting Moreover, then don't charge extra for scpraing the data from the premium site like Amazon, Google etc. where the competitors do so. Cons To be honest I have always been a big fan of theirs so couldn't say anything negative on them. But the monthly commitment is what I don't like that much. Its because, sometimes I might need their service, sometimes not. So pay per go plan with a reasonable price will be the best option. Or a monthly commitment with rollover credit will work too. Review Source Response from ScraperAPI March 3, 2022 Hi Shekhor, thank you for your great review! AL Alexey L. Founder Real Estate Used the software for: 1-2 years ### " Value for money, does its job well " November 18, 2021 5.0 Pros It simple and just works. On top of that, you can ask support to implement filtering of some responses that should not be considered valid parsed responses. Cons Sometimes pages with errors and captchas are returned as successful results. However, this can be fixed if you ask the support. Review Source Response from ScraperAPI December 8, 2021 Hi Alexey, thank you for your review! GS Greg S. Programmer Retail Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Very simple to use and works perfectly" December 9, 2021 5.0 We are able to focus on our business objectives without being distracted by all the intricacies that go along with scraping. ScraperAPI just does it. Pros I loved how many features are bundled "behind the scenes" to ensure that my web scraping works without interruption. I don't need to worry about IP rotation and captcha and user agents - they handle it all. Cons Haven't really run into any problems at this point. It worked exactly as I hoped. Reason for choosing ScraperAPI I selected ScraperAPI because they had a free trial and their pricing is flexible enough to grow as we grow. Review Source Response from ScraperAPI March 3, 2022 Hi Greg, thank you for your great review! SN Suraj N. Head of Technical Operations Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great Product for Scraping!" December 23, 2021 5.0 Overall experience is good and I would definitely refer it as a great web scraping solution. The free tier itself grants you quite large number of requests, the paid version will do wonders! Pros Very easy implementation. Works very similar to the existing requests library of Python. Works exactly as it has been advertised and was successfully able to surpass various security/bot protection programs. Customer support is quick and efficient and they work to resolve your issues. Cons No cons that I have come across as of now. They provide the exact features that are advertised so there's no misleading the users. Review Source Response from ScraperAPI March 3, 2022 Hi Suraj, thank you for your great review! GS Gary S. Commercial Manager Retail Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Brilliant! Would recommend to all" November 19, 2021 5.0 A brilliant service which is simple and efficient allowing us to improve business. Pros I love the simplicity of the API, it is very easy retreive data quickly Cons Occasional failures but nothing that hinders our usage Review Source Response from ScraperAPI November 26, 2021 Hi Gary, thank you for your review! SM Sankalp M. Student Entertainment Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Nice experience" December 11, 2021 5.0 Pretty good. I was using it to scrape amazon website. Pros Ease of use and clear documentation was very nice. Cons A buggy slightly bad authentication system and overall broken css on the website. It's not too big of an issue. Review Source Response from ScraperAPI March 3, 2022 Hi Sankalp, thank you for your review! We are aware of the issues you mentioned and they are on our roadmap. GT Gerlando T. Web Content Manager Higher Education Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "It makes it easy to automate your workflows" December 8, 2021 5.0 It was very easy to implement. Our bot was having issues retrieving data from various online research websites, and ScraperAPI unlocked its full potential in minutes. Pros Ease of use: it takes just a few minutes to add it to your solution. Cons Nothing so far. We are happy with the product and have been able to retrieve thousands of pages very quickly and effortlessly. Review Source Response from ScraperAPI March 3, 2022 Hi Gerlando, thank you for your great review! AM Ashfaq M. CEO Computer Software Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Loved it" December 17, 2021 5.0 Pros I loved the API feature a lot. I had a really great experience with the product. Cons Nothing. There is nothing I could find that was bad about this product. Review Source Response from ScraperAPI March 3, 2022 Hi Ashfaq, thank you for your great review! GG Gabriel G. Data Specialist Internet Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Go and buy it!" November 18, 2021 5.0 Good customer service, great API docs no big problems until now. Pros Fast costumer service. About the product itself: the API is super super easy, documentation is good and you can set up the hole think in like 2 minutes. Cons The time you need to wait between requests can be "long" sometimes (let's say 20 - 40 seconds) but the API allows concurrency so it's fixed. Reason for choosing ScraperAPI Low price and the free trial. Review Source Response from ScraperAPI November 26, 2021 Hi Gabriel, thank you for your review! LK Laxmi K. Studenr E-Learning Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Scrape " November 17, 2021 4.0 It's easy and fun to scrap data from scraperAPI Pros We can scrape the data very fastly and relevantly of web that we targeted. Cons In my laptop it's difficult to use i mean data what I want to scrape that didn't scrape. Review Source Response from ScraperAPI November 22, 2021 Hi Laxmi, thank you for your review! Did you reach out to Support regarding the unsuccessful requests? If you experience this again, please reach out to support@scraperapi.com so we can take a look. DD Dan D. Data Analyst Law Practice Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Great Support" November 22, 2021 4.0 Overall great. \[SENSITIVE CONTENT\] helped out a lot and for that I will be leaving this review Pros Although the setup might feel overwelming, the examples helped out a lot. The support on any issues is excellent Cons The dashboard is not responsive to the centre of the screen, graphs etc is difficult to read. Reason for choosing ScraperAPI Recommendation from \[SENSITIVE CONTENT\] on youtube with a tutorial on Scraping.\[SENSITIVE CONTENT\] Review Source Response from ScraperAPI November 26, 2021 Hi Dan, thank you for your review and for pointing out the issue with the Dashboard. We'll look into it! MP Mihai P. Software Engineer Accounting Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Requests Review" November 23, 2021 5.0 Pros I like that the using process was straight-forward, needing only an API key. It was easy to integrate with my already-existing application and the features were enough for me. Cons I could use faster requests sometimes. On the websites I scraped, a request took about 5-6 seconds. Review Source Response from ScraperAPI November 26, 2021 Hello Mihai, thank you for your review! JS John S. Founder Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "ScraperAPI Delivers Exceptionally Value" February 25, 2025 5.0 Great communication, ease of dashboard use, and great communication of product launches/releases. Pros The ease of use, simplicity, and reliability of the service is top notch. Highly recommend for all scraping needs. Cons Breakdown of credit costs can be confusing, especially as you use premium parameters. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Head of Advisory Consumer Goods Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Reliable rotating IP service with low price and responsive and helpful support team" November 11, 2021 5.0 Overall very positive experience with ScraperAPI and have been a customer for 2 years +. Always pleased with my interactions with the support team and their response time and their efforts to help. Pros \- The URL encoding is fairly straightforward to implement and maintain - The support team is quick to respond and support on any issues that come up - The pricing is very reasonable and they give a lot of queries vs other providers - was able to upgrade, downgrade, or pause subscription without any issues Cons \- there are a few websites where it didn't work for me, e.g Tesco.com - the IP locations were not always accurate, e.g set to USA, and still see China, or Malaysia etc appearing as the location on Amazon.com Alternatives considered [Zyte](https://www.capterra.com/p/180165/Zyte/)[ScrapingBee](https://www.capterra.com/p/195060/ScrapingBee/) Reason for choosing ScraperAPI Cheaper and more queries Review Source Response from ScraperAPI November 16, 2021 Hi, thank you for your review! Regarding the IP locations not being accurate, we regularly curate our IP databases, but given the dynamic nature of proxies, this is an issue that can, sometimes, occur. If this happens, please reach out to support@scraperapi.com and let us know. As an alternative, we also offer Premium proxies where this is less likely to occur. TD Thien D. Doctoral Candidate Management Consulting Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great API service with good value" November 17, 2021 4.0 Overall, I would still say my experience with ScraperAPI is positive. I've been able to save a lot of time collecting data, and the auto parsing feature has been a great help. I didn't get a 100% success rate, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to get it anywhere else any way. Pros What I like most about ScraperAPI is its ease of use. The documentation gets me up and running in no time and the sample code is highly illustrative. I also feel like they offer the best value as I had to do a lot of web scraping in a short amount of time, and the pricing scheme is flexible enough to accommodate my changing need for the service. I did shop around and while other providers offer comparable prices (or perhaps even a little bit cheaper), I just stick with ScraperAPI as I got used to its interface. I have had good results in highly readable format most of the time. The customer support team is also quick in replying my emails. Cons Even with the Business subscription, I don't always get the data I needed. But I'm sure this is a challenge to which there's no quick-and-easy solution just yet. JSON auto parsing is a really nice feature but currently is offered on a limited number of websites. I also think residential proxy is a little bit pricy relative to its value, because even with residential proxy activated, I still got blocked sometimes. Review Source Response from ScraperAPI November 22, 2021 Hi Thien, thank you for your review! We are constantly actively refreshing our proxy pools to ensure this happens as little as possible. VR Verified Reviewer Freelancer Computer Software Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "ScrapperAPI for begginner" November 14, 2021 5.0 Easy to use and doesn't charge for failed requests, that's really helpful. Pros This software is very easy to use and covers all the popular programming languages. So we don't have to adapt our program to languages that are only available at service providers. And scraperAPI is widely used by YouTubers tutors for Computer Science as the provider chosen for practice, making it easier to use. Cons Sometimes there are errors in testing the API Testing Daily Summary without a detailed explanation of the problem. Review Source Response from ScraperAPI November 17, 2021 Hi, thank you for your review! Can you please let me know what you mean by "API Testing Daily Summary"? It would be very helpful to understand what we could improve on our end. 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