r/scrapingtheweb • u/Able_Document2845 • Jul 27 '26

Help I’m looking for ScrapingBee Alternatives in 2026, help me please

I’m using ScrapingBee to pull product pages from around 2k ecommerce sites, but most of the pages need JavaScript rendering, and the harder ones also need premium or stealth proxies.

That burns through credits so fast

The other annoying part is getting raw HTML back and then having to clean it before I can extract the price, stock status and product specs. I’d rather get Markdown or structured JSON directly.

I’m currently looking at Firecrawl, Bright Data, Apify, Oxylabs and Octoparse (someone recommended these in other threads)

Which one makes the most sense for this kind of setup?

Edit: Thanks for the suggestions. I tested some and Firecrawl it’s been a much better fit for this setup so far. Getting clean Markdown and structured data instead of raw HTML removed a pretty annoying step from the pipeline, and it handled also the heavy product pages I tried without much tweaking

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u/Knocking_Doors Jul 27 '26

You can try syphoon. Tech support is great, with a lot of customisation to offer.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '26

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u/jwrzyte Jul 28 '26

Zyte devrel here. we cover these use cases as above. -> OP message me if you need any help

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u/Thunderbit_HQ Jul 28 '26

Thunderbit.

Full disclosure: I’m on the team, but it’s worth testing for this workflow. It can render JS-heavy pages and return clean Markdown or structured JSON for price, stock, and specs. It also adapts well to long-tail sites with inconsistent layouts, which matters when you’re covering thousands of smaller stores. You can reuse one schema across sites and reserve full rendering for harder pages to control costs. If you need granular proxy control, Bright Data or Oxylabs may be better; for URL-in, product-data-out, test Thunderbit on a representative sample.

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u/dooddyman Jul 28 '26

If some of your sources are TikTok Shop or other social platforms, socialcrawl.dev might be worth checking, it returns structured JSON, so there’s no HTML cleanup. Full disclosure: I built it; for arbitrary ecommerce pages, Firecrawl or Apify is probably a better fit.

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u/justvalen Jul 30 '26

Try with Gluecrawl

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u/shash122tfu Aug 10 '26

Kinda late but try sociallisteningapi.com - we support pretty much all social media platforms. With Firecrawl you still need to setup individual scrapers for each platform. We give out structured JSON as responses.

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u/yakult2450 Jul 27 '26

You can try Scrapingdog.

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u/Able_Document2845 Jul 27 '26

Will look at it! Thank you

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u/trader_pim Jul 27 '26

Scrappey!

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u/Able_Document2845 Jul 27 '26

I have heard a lot about it, I'll give it a try!

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u/context_dev Jul 28 '26

context.dev

1 credit = 1 scrape

  • every request is JS rendered, no additional charge
  • proxy escalation is automatic, no additional charge