New Report: Web Scraping APIs in 2025
We benchmarked 11 companies and overviewed AI’s impact on the market.
- Published:
1. The Unblocking Benchmark
Here, we tested 11 APIs from companies like Oxylabs, Zyte, ScraperAPI, and Apify.
We accessed 15 protected e-commerce websites, search engines, and other targets, extracting six thousand pages at two and 10 requests per second. This would translate to five and 26 million monthly requests, respectively.
We discovered that even commercial APIs struggle with websites like Shein and G2. Some, such as Zyte or Decodo, were very effective with most targets, while others could be considered specialist providers.
2. The Impact of AI on the Web Scraping Market
This part is less technical – we put on an analyst’s shoes and tried to document how AI has affected our industry. The impact has been huge and multifaceted:
- There’s been an unprecedented level of venture capital activity (to the tune of several hundred million dollars), which has birthed a generation of US-based providers.
- They, in turn, have brought a share of new features and a sense of urgency to entrenched market participants.
- And, of course, AI crawling hasn’t been unnoticed by major web scraping targets like Google or bot protection companies.
You’ll find the full report here: https://proxyway.com/research/web-scraping-api-report-2025.
