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Apifier vs ProxyCrawl: What are the differences?

Apifier: Hosted web crawler for developers. Apifier is a hosted web crawler for developers that enables them to extract data from any website using a few simple lines of JavaScript and rapidly build new apps on top of existing third-party web apps and data sources; ProxyCrawl: It reduces time spent developing scrapers and crawlers. It is a top web scraping tool for developers. Get data for SEO or data mining projects without worrying about worldwide proxies. Scrape Amazon, FB, Yahoo, and thousands of websites. Stay anonymous and save time when crawling the web by bypassing any restrictions, blocks, or captchas.

Apifier and ProxyCrawl can be primarily classified as "Web Scraping API" tools.

Some of the features offered by Apifier are:

  • Tell the crawler what to do using a few simple lines of Javascript with jQuery, Underscore.js or any other client-side library
  • Crawl and extract data from websites that employ AJAX, complex pagination or infinite scroll using the same tools you already use for your front-end development
  • No need to install browser plugins, download any tools, setup cron jobs, databases or proxy servers

On the other hand, ProxyCrawl provides the following key features:

  • Disparate Data Collection
  • Email Address Extraction
  • Pricing Extraction
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    What is Apify?

    Apify is a platform that enables developers to create, customize and run cloud-based programs called actors that can, among other things, be used to extract data from any website using a few lines of JavaScript.

    What is ProxyCrawl?

    It is a top web scraping tool for developers. Get data for SEO or data mining projects without worrying about worldwide proxies. Scrape Amazon, FB, Yahoo, and thousands of websites. Stay anonymous and save time when crawling the web by bypassing any restrictions, blocks, or captchas.

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