The best ScrapingBee
alternatives.
When rendering JavaScript is not the only hard part. The tools that also bypass anti-bot and reach protected pages.
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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Scrapfly
A scraping API with anti-bot bypass, JavaScript rendering, and extraction.
Best for · a focused scraping API
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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 ScrapingBee.
ScrapingBee is a scraping API centred on rendering JavaScript pages simply, credits per request. Migrating is swapping the endpoint and parameter names; the request shape stays a GET.
- Deeper anti-bot tiers when needed
- Failed requests are never billed
- Markdown, JSON or PDF output built in
# before: ScrapingBee
curl "https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/?url=https://example.com" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer KEY"
# after: Zenrows
curl "https://api.zenrows.com/v1/?apikey=KEY\
&url=https://example.com&js_render=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.