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Overview

ScrapingRocket is a robust and high-performance web scraping API designed to solve common challenges web developers face when scraping data from diverse websites, whether they are e-commerce platforms, social networks, or other types of sites. It is an API-first Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution available on a subscription basis, offering several powerful tools to make web scraping easier, such as a visual selector for creating Cheerio configurations.

Problems ScrapingRocket Solves​

  • Bypassing Anti-Scraping Protections: With its cutting-edge scraping engine and Chrome TLS fingerprint, ScrapingRocket can successfully bypass various anti-scraping measures commonly found on websites.
  • Handling JavaScript Challenges: Many modern websites rely heavily on JavaScript to render content. ScrapingRocket's advanced scraping engine can easily handle JavaScript rendering, interact with pages, evaluate JavaScript, intercept AJAX requests, and even capture screenshots.
  • Proxy Management: Unlike services that rely on a single proxy source, ScrapingRocket uses a diverse set of rotating proxies from multiple regions, ensuring better availability and minimizing the chances of IP bans.
  • Data Extraction Simplified: Extracting meaningful data from complex HTML structures can be time-consuming. ScrapingRocket's powerful visual selector allows you to quickly build Cheerio configurations, making it easier to extract useful data without diving into raw HTML.

ScrapingRocket Main Features​

  • One Powerful Scraping Engine: ScrapingRocket offers a versatile engine that supports both general scraping and JavaScript rendering. You can easily control JavaScript rendering via the render_js parameter, setting it to true or false depending on the target page's needs.
  • Geographic Targeting: We provide rotating proxies from all around the globe, including the United States, the European Union, Brazil, France, Germany, and more. This enables you to access content specific to different regions or avoid geo-blocking.
  • Premium Proxy Option (Available in Jun 2024): ScrapingRocket introduces a premium proxy feature that offers a vast pool of datacenter proxies from over 50 countries. This feature is perfect for users facing challenges with basic proxies, offering high availability and excellent performance. New customers receive 1500 credits.
  • Smart Retry Mechanism: If your scraping job fails, our smart retry mechanism steps in. It retries based on textual occurrences, HTTP response status, and timeouts to maximize your chances of success.
  • Visual Selector for Cheerio Configurations: ScrapingRocket's visual selector tool enables you to visually pick elements from a webpage to generate Cheerio configuration files. This intuitive tool makes it easy to extract JSON data from any HTML page, even without writing code.

Target Audience​

ScrapingRocket is primarily built for developers looking to integrate web scraping into their systems. While it’s a low-level tool requiring some knowledge of web protocols, APIs, and proxies, it has grown to support no-code environments as well. For example, our visual selector lets you generate Cheerio configurations without writing a single line of code, making it perfect for users who want to leverage web scraping without technical expertise.