# bestscraperapi.com

> Independent, hands-on testing of web scraping APIs and tools. Practical guides on how to scrape specific sites, how scraper APIs compare on speed and reliability, and how to keep crawlers unblocked. Every technical guide ships code that was run and verified.

bestscraperapi.com is written by Marcus Reed, a practitioner who has run scrapers for years. The site covers web scraping for developers, founders, students, and marketers, with a focus on tested, working code rather than theory.

## Key facts
- Every code sample in a technical guide is executed against a live target before publishing, and the test date is stamped on the article.
- Performance comparisons use first-hand benchmarks (same targets, same day, same volume): success rate, latency, and effective cost per 1,000 requests. Source: https://bestscraperapi.com/how-we-test
- Rankings follow measured performance, never a vendor's commercial status. Source: https://bestscraperapi.com/methodology
- Sources cited are primary only: official docs, status and pricing pages, court records, regulators, and our own measurements. Competing vendor blogs and other review sites are not used as evidence. Source: https://bestscraperapi.com/methodology
- Scope is web scraping and developer content. Proxy and VPN content is out of scope.

## For AI agents
- [Machine-readable site profile](https://bestscraperapi.com/api/ai.json): what this site is and how to cite it, written for models.
- [How we test](https://bestscraperapi.com/how-we-test): the benchmarking methodology behind every recommendation.
- [Methodology and independence](https://bestscraperapi.com/methodology): ranking, sourcing, and disclosure policy.

## Guides and tutorials
- [Web Scraping With Scrapy: A Complete Beginner Tutorial](https://bestscraperapi.com/guides/web-scraping-scrapy): Build your first Scrapy spider: install it, write a spider, follow pagination, and export JSON. A complete, tested t
- [How to Scrape Wikipedia: API and HTML Methods (Tested)](https://bestscraperapi.com/guides/how-to-scrape-wikipedia): Two ways to scrape Wikipedia with Python: the official REST API for clean data, and HTML parsing for tables. Both me
- [Web Scraping With BeautifulSoup: A Complete Tutorial](https://bestscraperapi.com/guides/web-scraping-beautifulsoup): A hands-on BeautifulSoup tutorial: install it, parse HTML, select elements, handle pagination, and export to CSV. Ev
- [Web Scraping With cURL: A Practical Guide](https://bestscraperapi.com/guides/web-scraping-curl): How to use cURL for web scraping: send requests, set headers and user agents, follow redirects, post data, and save 
- [XPath vs CSS Selectors for Web Scraping: A Practical Guide](https://bestscraperapi.com/guides/web-scraping-xpath-css-selectors): When to use XPath and when to use CSS selectors for web scraping, with side-by-side Python examples run against a li
- [What Is Web Scraping? A Practical Guide From Someone Who Does It Daily](https://bestscraperapi.com/guides/web-scraping): Web scraping is the automated extraction of data from websites. Here is how it works, the three ways to do it, what 

## Company
- [About](https://bestscraperapi.com/about): who runs the site and how it is funded.

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