The best Scrapfly
alternatives.
When the scrape is one step in a bigger pipeline. The tools that go past the scrape — fetch, extract, and browser sessions.
Five ways to get the real data.
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Zenrows
Live extraction from any URL, including protected and dynamic pages, with fetch, extract, and browser sessions as one toolkit. The page, the structured data, and the results, in real time.
Best for · production web data, end to end
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ScraperAPI
A straightforward scraping API with proxy rotation and rendering.
Best for · simple, high-volume scraping
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ScrapingBee
A scraping API focused on rendering JavaScript pages simply.
Best for · quick JS-rendered scrapes
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Firecrawl
Turns public pages into clean Markdown for LLMs, with crawling.
Best for · LLM-ready text from public sites
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Zyte
A scraping platform from the Scrapy team, with smart proxies and AI extraction.
Best for · teams building on Scrapy
Switching from Scrapfly.
Scrapfly is a scraping API with anti-bot bypass, JS rendering and extraction, credits weighted by the options each request enables. The migration is an endpoint and parameter swap.
- Deeper bypass on hard-protected targets
- Fixed, published credit weights
- Batch and browser sessions included
# before: Scrapfly
curl "https://api.scrapfly.io/scrape?key=KEY\
&url=https://example.com&asp=true&render_js=true"
# after: Zenrows
curl "https://api.zenrows.com/v1/?apikey=KEY\
&url=https://example.com&js_render=true&premium_proxy=true"How we ranked them.
Reach
Any URL including protected and dynamic pages, or only some targets.
Anti-bot
Bypass built in, or your problem to solve.
Output
Structured data and full pages, or raw HTML.
Scope
One primitive, or a full web-data toolkit.