We benchmarked 16 web scrapers from 5 leading web data infrastructure providers to scrape top eCommerce websites like Walmart and Amazon in 7 different countries. Based on our learnings, see the leading e-commerce scrapers, detailing their functionalities and pricing models:
| Provider | Best for | |
|---|---|---|
1. | Web scraping APIs with detailed results at cost-effective prices | |
2. | Fast web scraping APIs for real-time use cases | |
3. | Fast web scraping APIs like Smartproxy's APIs | |
4. | Market-leading prices | |
5. | Web scraping APIs with a community-driven approach | |
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6. | All-in-one scraping API solution | |
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Comparing Top eCommerce Data Scrapers
We have only included vendors that provide specialized e-commerce scraping services and have excluded those offering general-purpose web scrapers from our list:
| Vendors | Localization | Results in | Free trial | Starting price/mo | PAYG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bright Data | Country | JSON | 7 days | $500 | ✅ |
| Smartproxy | Country | HTML | 3K requests for 30 days | $50 | ❌ |
| Oxylabs | Country | HTML | 7 days | $49 | ❌ |
| Zyte | Country | HTML | $5 credits for 30 days | $100 | ✅ |
| Apify | Country | HTML | 14 days | $40 | ❌ |
| Nimble | Country | HTML | 7 days | $600 | ❌ |
| SOAX | Country | HTML | ❌ | $59 | ❌ |
E-commerce web scraping API benchmark results
See the average number of fields returned by scrapers and their median response times in eCommerce websites:
There is typically an inverse relationship between the number of fields returned and the response time. For definitions, see methodology section.
Price analysis: Best E-commerce scraper APIs compared
Notes:
- These are the monthly rates. We omitted annual purchase discounts.
- The pricing table includes only data from services with a success rate exceeding 90%.
- Providers are paid based on successful results.
Bright Data
Bright Data has one of the largest selection of e-commerce APIs and is the largest company in web data infrastructure based on its
- Number of employees
- Range of products
They provide pre-built functions and code templates for major e-commerce sites, aiding developers in constructing their scraping tools and simplifying the creation of scraping scripts. Bright Data’s eCommerce scraper is tailored for large-scale data extraction projects.
Features
- Custom IDE scrapers allow users to specify the fields that they need to reduce response time.
- Built-in proxy and unblocking: The web scraping API comes pre-configured with its own proxy servers. Unblocking technology helps the API overcome barriers set up by websites like CAPTCHAs, IP bans and JavaScript challenges.
- Auto-retry mechanism: If an initial scraping request fails, auto-retry mechanism automatically initiates a data retrieval action again to make the same request.
- Parser customization: Enables users to create their parsers using cheerio and execute live previews.
- Output formats: Provides output in formats such as JSON, NDJSON, CSV, or Excel.
Pricing
- Starting price: $500/mo
- Free trial: Bright Data provides a free trial exclusively for registered businesses. The free trial is restricted based on the number of records scraped.
- Pay-As-You-Go: Available
Smartproxy
Smartproxy is a web data collection platform offers web scraping APIs, no-code scraper and proxies. Smarproxy’s e-commerce scraping API is a comprehensive 3-in-1 solution encompassing an integrated scraper, parser, and proxies.
Features
- Real-time or proxy-like: The scraping API supports real-time and proxy-like integration. In real-time integration, the API fetches data as it is updated or changed on the web page. Proxy-like integration help the scraper API route connection requests through different IP addresses, bypassing IP-based restrictions used by websites.
- Automated proxy management: Automatically allocates IP addresses to the requests made by the scraping API. These IP addresses can be from different geolocations and include a mix of proxy server types, like datacenter, mobile, and residential proxies.
- Synchronous or asynchronous requests: When you make synchronous requests, the requests are executed sequentially. The API waits for the response before moving on the next one. Asynchronous requests allow users to send multiple requests simultaneously, making it suitable for large-scale data scraping tasks.
- Output formats: The scraping API provides the extracted data in HTML or JSON formats.
Pricing
- Starting price: The basic package offers 15,000 requests at a price of $50.
- Free trial: Smartproxy offers 3K requests for one month for free.
Oxylabs
Oxylabs provides an eCommerce Scraper API and pre-prepared e-commerce product data from Amazon and Walmart.
Features
- OxyCopilot is a web scraper API feature that allows users to create a custom parser tailored to their specific parsing requirements without the need for manual coding.
Instead of manually cleaning or organizing the data, users can leverage prompt engineering to define precisely which data they need. The tool enables users to retrieve only the relevant data fields from a web scraping task, instead of extracting all the information from a webpage. Here’s an example where we selected only four data fields from a specific eCommerce URL.
- Headless browser: Oxylabs’ Scraper APIs allow users to employ the Headless Browser feature, which is capable of executing JavaScript to load additional data on a page.
- Output formats: Provides data in HTML or JSON format.
- Targeting: Offers targeting based on postal code across 195 countries.
Pricing
- Starting price: $49/mo -10 requests
- Free trial: Oxylabs offers 1 week free trial, including 5 requests.
Zyte
Zyte offers a web scraping API that is suitable for various websites, encompassing e-commerce platforms as well.
Features
- Automatic IP rotation and retries: Zyte’s scraping API rotates IP addresses from a diverse proxy pool, ensuring each request is sent from a unique IP. When a request fail, the API automatically attempt it again.
- Proxy integration: The scraping API includes support for datacenter and residential proxies, offering robust and efficient web scraping capabilities.
- Scriptable browser functionality: Allows users to emulate human-like interaction with web pages, ideal for extracting data from dynamic sites that use JavaScript.
- Automated data parsing: Automatically interpret and transform raw data into a structured and readily usable format.
- Output formats: JSON, PNG and HTML
Prices
- Price leader: Zyte had the lowest prices in our benchmark but its pricing depends on the specific domains to be scraped.
- Starting price: $100/mo
- Free trial: Upon signing up, Zyte provides a $5 free credit to test the API for a 30-day period. Each target website and request type is priced individually. Additionally, screenshots are charged at $0.002 each, and actions incur costs based on their actual CPU and network usage.
Nimbleway
Nimble provides an eCommerce scraper API that employs artificial intelligence and natural language processing algorithms to interpret and structure online data.
Features
- Built-in residential proxies: The scraping API comes with its own set of residential IPs, you don’t need to source or manage proxies separately.
- Zip code level targeting: Collects data specific to a particular zip code area.
- Supported e-commerce websites: Amazon and Walmart
- Delivery methods: Nimble offers 3 data delivery methods: real-time, cloud storage, and push/pull.
Pricing
- Starting price: $150/mo
- Free trial: 100 CPM
Apify
Apify provides an Amazon product scraper that enables users to gather information from the Amazon website by specifying a URL and country. This API retrieves various data points such as reviews, prices, descriptions, and Amazon Standard Identification Numbers (ASINs).
Features
- Large-scale data scraping: The Amazon Product Scraper is capable of delivering upwards of 100,000 results on average, although there isn’t a standard figure applicable to all scenarios. The maximum quantity of outcomes can fluctuate based on the intricacy of the provided information, geographical considerations, and additional variables.
- Integrations: The Amazon Product Scraper offers compatibility with a wide range of cloud services and web applications. It allows for seamless integration with platforms such as Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub, Google Sheets, and Google Drive.
Pricing
- Starting price: $40/month
- Free trial: Apify offers 14 days trial.
SOAX
SOAX’s eCommerce product scraper comes with support for a headless browser, allowing users to render websites that use JavaScript.
Features
- Proxy-like setup: A proxy server acts as an intermediary between a computer and the target server.
- Built-in proxies: SOAX is a provider of proxy services, offering a network that includes residential, mobile, US ISP, and datacenter proxies. Their proxy solution is compatible with eCommerce scraper APIs.
- Country or zip code targeting: The scraping API allows for customizing web scraping activities based on specific countries or ZIP codes.
- ML adaptive parser: Offers a ML adaptive parser that employs machine learning techniques to interpret and process the collected data.
- Output formats: The API delivers data in unprocessed HTML format or in parsed JSON format.
Pricing
- Starting price: $59
- Free trial: SOAX doesn’t offer a trial for the scraping API.
Methodology
1,700 URLs in total from 9 leading e-commerce web domains are tested. List of domains:
- amazon.es
- amazon.com
- amazon.ca
- amazon.co.uk
- amazon.de
- amazon.fr
- amazon.it
- walmart.com
- target.com
For each domain, we included 100 URLs from each type of page:
- Search (example from Amazon.com). However, target.com search page was left out since most providers don’t provide a web scraper API for those pages.
- Product detail page (example from Amazon.de)
For more, see our methodology for benchmarking web scraper APIs.
FAQ
Why scrape eCommerce data?
Retailers use web scraping to collect e-commerce data, which helps them identify market trends, adjust their pricing strategies based on real-time data, and optimize their product assortment.
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