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Scrapy vs ScrapingAnt: What are the differences?
What is Scrapy? A fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python. It is the most popular web scraping framework in Python. An open source and collaborative framework for extracting the data you need from websites. In a fast, simple, yet extensible way.
What is 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..
Scrapy and ScrapingAnt can be primarily classified as "Web Scraping API" tools.
Scrapy is an open source tool with 36.9K GitHub stars and 8.54K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Scrapy's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of ScrapingAnt
- Free plan with no payment info4
- Easy integration3
- Complex websites2
- Affordable price2
- Cloudflare avoidance1
- Etsy scraping1