Web Scraping Tools & Scraping Proxies

Scrapy

9.1/10

Crawling framework · Zyte / open source

The mature asynchronous Python crawling framework — middlewares, pipelines, AutoThrottle and a proxy layer that scales to millions of pages.

Price from

Free

Platforms

Python 3.9+ · Linux · macOS · Windows

Best for

Large structured crawls on stable HTML

Proxies

HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 via downloader middleware; rotating gateways work out of the box

• + Twisted async engine with per-domain concurrency
• + AutoThrottle, retry and robots middleware
• + Item pipelines to any store
• + Huge middleware ecosystem

Crawlee

9.0/10

Crawling framework · Apify

Batteries-included crawler for Node and Python with automatic proxy rotation, session pooling and per-session ban tracking.

Price from

Free

Platforms

Node.js · Python

Best for

Production crawlers built fast, with ban handling included

Proxies

First-class ProxyConfiguration with rotation, tiers and automatic retirement of banned sessions

• + SessionPool with automatic ban detection
• + Tiered proxy configuration (cheap first, expensive on retry)
• + Unified request queue across HTTP and browser crawlers
• + Adaptive crawler picks HTTP vs browser per page

Playwright

9.3/10

Headless browser · Microsoft

Headless Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with per-context proxies — the default engine for JavaScript-rendered scraping targets.

Price from

Free

Platforms

Node · Python · .NET · Java

Best for

Dynamic, JS-rendered and login-gated pages

Proxies

Per-browser and per-context HTTP/SOCKS5 proxies with username auth

• + Per-context proxy rotation
• + Network interception and request blocking
• + Auto-wait removes flaky sleeps
• + Codegen and trace viewer for debugging

Puppeteer

8.5/10

Headless browser · Chrome DevTools team

Chrome DevTools Protocol automation for Node, with the largest stealth-plugin ecosystem in scraping.

Price from

Free

Platforms

Node.js (Chrome & Firefox)

Best for

Chrome-only automation and stealth-plugin workflows

Proxies

Per-browser proxy via --proxy-server; per-request rotation via a proxy-chain bridge

• + puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth
• + Raw CDP access for deep control
• + proxy-chain for authenticated rotation
• + Enormous community and snippet base

Selenium

7.8/10

Headless browser · Selenium project (SeleniumHQ)

The WebDriver standard — every language binding, every browser, and Grid for horizontal scale.

Price from

Free

Platforms

Java · Python · C# · Ruby · JS

Best for

Legacy stacks, cross-browser and antidetect-browser control

Proxies

Per-driver HTTP/SOCKS5 proxy via Options or a Selenium Wire interceptor

• + W3C WebDriver standard
• + Grid for distributed sessions
• + First-class antidetect browser support
• + Selenium Wire for request-level proxying

Bright Data Web Unlocker

8.9/10

Unlocker / scraping API · Bright Data

A single proxy endpoint that solves challenges, rotates fingerprints and retries until it returns clean HTML — billed per successful request.

Price from

≈ $1.50 / 1k successful requests

Platforms

Any HTTP client · Playwright/Puppeteer via Scraping Browser

Best for

Hardened anti-bot targets where success rate matters more than unit cost

Proxies

Is the proxy — 150M+ residential IPs behind an automated unlock layer

• + Automatic CAPTCHA and challenge handling
• + Fingerprint and header rotation managed for you
• + Pay only for successful responses
• + Country, state and city targeting

Zyte API

8.6/10

Unlocker / scraping API · Zyte (creators of Scrapy)

Rendering, ban handling and automatic extraction as one API from the team that maintains Scrapy.

Price from

from ≈ $0.20 / 1k requests

Platforms

HTTP API · scrapy-zyte-api · Python/Node SDKs

Best for

Scrapy-native stacks that need ban handling without changing framework

Proxies

Managed proxy selection with automatic escalation from datacenter to residential

• + Automatic ban detection and proxy escalation
• + Browser rendering toggled per request
• + AI extraction for products, articles and job posts
• + Native scrapy-zyte-api integration

ScraperAPI

8.2/10

Unlocker / scraping API · ScraperAPI

Simple per-credit scraping API with proxy rotation, rendering and structured endpoints for Amazon, Google and Walmart.

Price from

$49 / mo (100k credits)

Platforms

HTTP API · proxy port · SDKs

Best for

Small and mid-size teams that want one endpoint and no infrastructure

Proxies

40M+ IP pool with automatic rotation; premium residential behind a credit multiplier

• + Proxy-port mode — no code change needed
• + Structured endpoints for Amazon, Google, Walmart
• + Async batch job endpoint
• + Geotargeting on paid plans

Oxylabs Web Scraper API

8.8/10

Unlocker / scraping API · Oxylabs

Enterprise scraper APIs with AI parsing over a 175M+ IP pool, returning structured JSON for SERP, e-commerce and real estate.

Price from

from $49 / mo

Platforms

HTTP API (realtime, push-pull, proxy endpoint)

Best for

Structured commercial data at enterprise volume

Proxies

Managed 175M+ residential and datacenter pool with country/city targeting

• + AI-powered adaptive parser
• + Dedicated parsers for Amazon, Google, Walmart, Best Buy
• + Push-pull mode for very large batches
• + Localised results down to city level

Apify

8.7/10

Managed platform · Apify Technologies

Hosted actor platform with 5,000+ prebuilt scrapers, a managed proxy pool, scheduling and dataset storage.

Price from

$0 (free tier) · from $49/mo

Platforms

Cloud · Node/Python SDK · REST API

Best for

Buy-don't-build scraping and scheduled data feeds

Proxies

Built-in datacenter and residential pools plus bring-your-own proxy URLs

• + 5,000+ ready actors in the store
• + Managed residential and datacenter proxies
• + Cron scheduling and webhooks
• + Datasets, key-value stores and API export

Browserbase & Stagehand

8.3/10

Managed platform · Browserbase

Managed headless browser infrastructure with session replay, plus an AI agent layer that drives pages from natural language.

Price from

free tier · from $39 / mo

Platforms

Cloud · Playwright/Puppeteer CDP · Stagehand SDK

Best for

AI browser agents and teams that refuse to run a browser fleet

Proxies

Built-in residential proxies per session, or bring your own

• + Connect existing Playwright code over CDP
• + Live view and session replay for debugging
• + Stagehand act/extract/observe primitives
• + Captcha solving and stealth mode built in

Firecrawl

8.7/10

AI scraper · Firecrawl (Mendable)

Turns any site into clean, LLM-ready markdown with crawl, scrape, map and extract endpoints.

Price from

free tier · from $16 / mo

Platforms

HTTP API · Python/Node SDK · LangChain & LlamaIndex integrations

Best for

RAG ingestion and LLM pipelines

Proxies

Managed proxies with a stealth mode tier for protected pages

• + Markdown output tuned for LLM context windows
• + /map returns every URL on a domain in seconds
• + Schema-based /extract with JSON output
• + Self-hostable open-source core

Crawl4AI

8.4/10

AI scraper · Open source (unclecode)

Fast asynchronous open-source crawler built to feed retrieval pipelines with chunked, cleaned, LLM-ready content.

Price from

Free

Platforms

Python 3.10+ · Docker

Best for

Self-hosted RAG ingestion with your own proxies

Proxies

Per-run proxy config plus a rotating proxy strategy, HTTP and SOCKS5

• + Fit-markdown filtering removes boilerplate
• + Built-in chunking strategies for embeddings
• + LLM and CSS extraction strategies side by side
• + Docker API server with a job queue

ScrapeGraphAI

8.0/10

AI scraper · ScrapeGraphAI

Prompt-defined extraction — describe the data you want and an LLM builds the scraping graph instead of you writing selectors.

Price from

Free (OSS) · API from $20 / mo

Platforms

Python · Node SDK · HTTP API

Best for

Long-tail sites where maintaining selectors is not worth it

Proxies

Proxy settings per graph config; works with rotating residential gateways

• + SmartScraperGraph from a plain-language prompt
• + Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini or local Ollama
• + Search-and-scrape graph combines SERP with extraction
• + Schema output via Pydantic models

Diffbot

8.0/10

AI scraper · Diffbot

Computer-vision page extraction plus a knowledge graph of billions of entities — no rules, no selectors, no maintenance.

Price from

from $299 / mo

Platforms

HTTP API · Crawlbot · KG query language

Best for

Enterprise entity data and zero-maintenance extraction

Proxies

Fully managed — no proxy configuration exposed

• + Automatic page-type classification
• + Article, product, discussion and image APIs
• + Knowledge Graph with billions of entities
• + Crawlbot for whole-domain jobs