Apifier vs import.io: What are the differences?

Developers describe Apifier as "Hosted web crawler for developers". Apifier is a hosted web crawler for developers that enables them to extract data from any website using a few simple lines of JavaScript and rapidly build new apps on top of existing third-party web apps and data sources. On the other hand, import.io is detailed as "Extract data from the web". import.io is a free web-based platform that puts the power of the machine readable web in your hands. Using our tools you can create an API or crawl an entire website in a fraction of the time of traditional methods, no coding required.

Apifier and import.io can be primarily classified as "Web Scraping API" tools.

Some of the features offered by Apifier are:

• Tell the crawler what to do using a few simple lines of Javascript with jQuery, Underscore.js or any other client-side library
• Crawl and extract data from websites that employ AJAX, complex pagination or infinite scroll using the same tools you already use for your front-end development
• No need to install browser plugins, download any tools, setup cron jobs, databases or proxy servers

On the other hand, import.io provides the following key features:

• Real-time data extraction
• website automation
• Automatic webpage conversion into data (Magic)