Web Scraping

Web scraping, also known as web harvesting or data extraction, is a technique used to extract data from websites. It involves fetching a web page, which is the downloading of a page (similar to what a browser does when a user views a page), and extracting information from it. The content of a page may be parsed, searched, reformatted, and its data copied into a spreadsheet or loaded into a database. Web scraping is typically automated and implemented using a bot or web crawler.
It's used in a variety of applications, including web indexing, data mining, price change monitoring, product review scraping, gathering real estate listings, and more

Web pages are built using text-based markup languages (HTML and XHTML), and often contain useful data in text form. However, most web pages are designed for human end-users and not for automated use. Therefore, specialized tools and software have been developed to facilitate web scraping. Newer forms of web scraping involve monitoring data feeds from web servers. For instance, JSON is commonly used as a transport mechanism between the client and the web server. There are methods some websites use to prevent web scraping, such as detecting and disallowing bots from crawling their pages. In response, web scraping systems use techniques in DOM parsing, computer vision, and natural language processing to simulate human browsing, allowing the gathering of web page content for offline parsing.

Web Scraping Services

Here are some details about various web scraping services:

ScrapingBee

• ScrapingBee uses a credit system for its operations. Premium proxies, which are more reliable and less likely to be blocked by websites, cost 10 credits per use. This means that if you are using premium proxies for your requests, the number of requests you can make will be reduced because each request will consume more credits

• The company offers a plan for 2.5 million API credits at a cost of $249 per month. If you use premium proxies for all your requests, this number would be reduced to 250,000 successful requests because each request would use 10 credits

ScraperAPI

• Does not charge any additional credits for geo targeting
• 3M credits plan costs $299/month, which allows for full 3M successful requests with geo targeting.

Oxylabs

• Includes geo targeting in every plan
• Business plan provides 399k successful requests for $399/month.

Bright Data

• Offers a "web unlocker" for $1000/month (year plan) for 476,190 successful requests
• Additional charges for failed requests that used headers or browser automation Bandwidth.
• When choosing a web scraping service, it's important to consider your specific needs, such as whether you need a general-purpose tool or a specialized tool for certain sites. Some other factors to consider include proxy management, additional features like geo targeting or premium proxies, and the cost of the service.

Google SERPs Scraping

Here's a brief comparison of the Google SERPs scraping features offered by different services:

ScrapingBee's Google Search API (Enterprise)

• 500k searches
• 12.5M API credits
• Each successful request costs 25 API credits
• Total of 500k successful requests
• Costs $999/month
• Only supports Google search
  Returns data in JSON format.

Oxylabs' SERP scraper API (Corporate)

• 526k Pages, equivalent to successful requests
• Costs 999 or 1.99/1000 successful requests
• Works with Google, Baidu, Bing, and Yandex
• Returns data in JSON format.

Bright Data's SERP API (Advance)

• 476,190 successful requests
• Costs 1000/month or 2.40/CPM
• Supports Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, and Baidu
• Returns data in JSON and HTML format.

ScraperAPI's Google search auto parse (Professional)

• No search limits
• 14M API credits
• Each successful request costs 25 API credits
• Total of 560k successful requests
• Costs $999/month
• Supports Google search and Google shopping
• Returns data in JSON format.

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