About bestscraperapi.com

I'm Marcus Reed. I started scraping to feed a price-tracking side project, broke it against every anti-bot wall there is, and ended up spending years building data pipelines that pull product listings, search results, and public records at scale. bestscraperapi.com is where I publish what I learn: which scraper APIs survive a hard target, how to keep a crawler unblocked, and what the workarounds really cost in time and money. I test before I recommend, and every technical guide here is code I ran myself.

What you'll find here

Guides and tests about web scraping: how to scrape specific sites, how scraper APIs compare on speed and reliability, and how to keep crawlers unblocked. Everything technical gets executed end to end before it ships. If an article says code works, I ran it, and the article carries the date I ran it.

How I test

Performance claims come from requests I actually send: same targets, same day, same volume across every tool in a comparison. I record success rate, latency, and effective cost per thousand requests. Where a number comes from somewhere else, I say where and treat it as an estimate. I don't quote vendor marketing as evidence, and I don't cite other review sites.

Contact

Found an error, or want a target or tool tested? Email marcus@bestscraperapi.com.