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Incredible product, will give it a spin soon. How do you do under volume? I tried it out with Google but it was quite slow.


We've used ScraperAPI for a long time: https://www.scraperapi.com/

Couldn't recommend them more.


I've used ScrapingBee which has similar pricing and has worked well, can't say which one is better: https://www.scrapingbee.com/


I'm using Scraping Fish because of their pay-as-you-go style pricing as opposed to subscription with monthly scraping volume commitment. And they don't charge extra credits for JS rendering or residential proxies because the cost of each request is the same: https://scrapingfish.com


We used to be on ScraperAPI, but moved to ScrapingBee after more frequent failures from ScraperAPI. If your scraping needs have realtime requirements, then I'd recommend ScrapingBee.


Weird, we found the exact opposite - what were you scraping?

ScrapingBee really struggles on so many domains - ScraperAPI is almost as good as Brightdata when it comes to hard to beat sites.


Hi Thomas, really sorry you had a bad experience with ScrapingBee.

Would you mind sending me the account you used as I wasn't able to find anything under Thomas Isaac or Tillypa and couldn't see what was going wrong then.

I'm sure your comment has nothing to do with the fact that you share the same investor as ScraperAPI but I just wanted be sure.


any HN discount by chance? ;) i'm testing y'all out now for a time-sensitive scrape job that must be done by Mar 1st.


I am surprised nobody mentioned https://apify.com/ and they even offer discount for YC startups as ex-graduate from the YC Combinator program


btw your free trial seems totally broken; have reached out via contact form.


We've been happily using BuildJet [0] for over a year now.

Saved over $25k in CI costs compared to GH Actions - they're also using super powerful bare metal servers with Hetzner - we got about a 94% reduction in build time!

Absolutely chuffed, good to see more companies on the market though.

[0] https://buildjet.com


Built for obvious reasons. https://github.com/sktt/doom_element



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