ScrapingAnt vs Panther: What are the differences?

ScrapingAnt: Extract data from websites and turn them to API. Extract data from websites and turn them to API We will handle all the rotating proxies and Chrome rendering for you.

Many specialists have to handle Javascript rendering, headless browser update and maintenance, proxies diversity and rotation. It is a simple API that does all the above for you.; Panther: A browser testing and web crawling library for PHP and Symfony. It is a convenient standalone library to scrape websites and to run end-to-end tests using real browsers.

ScrapingAnt can be classified as a tool in the "Web Scraping API" category, while Panther is grouped under "Browser Testing".

Some of the features offered by ScrapingAnt are:

• Web Scraping
• Web Harvesting
• Captcha Avoiding

On the other hand, Panther provides the following key features:

• Executes the JavaScript code contained in webpages
• Supports everything that Chrome (or Firefox) implements
• Allows screenshots taking

Panther is an open source tool with 2.01K GitHub stars and 126 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Panther's open source repository on GitHub.