The Best Shein Web Scrapers of 2026
Shein has been a staple of fast fashion for years now. Naturally, this makes it catnip not only for teens with bad spending habits, but also for competitors, business analysts, and researchers looking for e-commerce data.
Unfortunately for them, Shein is one of the toughest cookies to crack when it comes to web scraping. But the precise technical reasons behind that – and the ways to overcome it – are for web scraping businesses to explore and exploit. Our competence is in testing how successful they are at cracking those defenses. That’s how we made this list of the best Shein scrapers of 2026.
The Best Shein Scrapers of 2026:
1. Oxylabs – The most successful Shein scraper.
2. ScrapingBee – Highly-customizable Shein scraper.
3. Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) – Attractively-priced Shein scraper.
4. Zyte API – The cheapest Shein scraper.
5. ScraperAPI – Best Shein scraper response time.
Why Scrape Shein?
Why do we do anything at all? To get more data, which will help us make better decisions in the fast fashion industry. As such, scraping Shein data – both individual products and product lists – can be beneficial in many ways:
- Competitive pricing: large-scale data scraping has always been a good way to keep tabs on the competition and what their pricing is. And if you’re not running either a high-end or highly specialized clothing brand, you’re competing against Shein by default.
- Trend and demand prediction: if Shein is pushing something, maybe it’s the hot new thing that all the buyers crave? It may be too late for you to spin up a whole new line of clothing, but if you’re merely curating an online store, you may get some ideas about what to source.
- Customer sentiment analysis: what are all those Shein customers talking about? Maybe you can fill the gaping hole in their hearts and demands with cheap clothing of your own.
- Selling data sets: you don’t have to scrape data for yourself – at the same time, people who may need Shein data may not be that hot on doing their own scraping. As such, there is a market for scraped and parsed data out there.
How We Made the List
The rankings on the Shein scraper list are based on how the particular developers performed in our 2025 scraper API research. The table below shows the success rates and response times when sending Shein two requests a second.
For all the scrapers involved, we had to enable JavaScript rendering and (for ScrapingBee and ScraperAPI) stealth/ultra premium proxies. Then, to arrive at a unified measure for CPM (price per 1,000 requests), we projected what the cost would be if you spent $500.
Note: our research showed that Shein, G2, and Hyatt were the most challenging targets to access. As such, the numbers presented here look worse than they would on a list dedicated to easier websites. Keep that in mind while reading: other providers we benchmarked did much worse, and even these results weren’t always possible to replicate shortly after the test.
The Best Shein Scrapers
1. Oxylabs
The most successful Shein scraper.
Available tools:
General-purpose API with a dedicated endpoint for Shein search results
Success rate:
62.58%
Response time:
47.35 s
- Integration: API (real-time or async), proxy, MCP
- Data parsing: manual instructions (XPath, CSS, Regex) with savable presets, dedicated endpoint, AI parser generator
- Locations: 150+
- Pricing model: subscription; based on successful requests
- Pricing starts at: $49/mo for up to 98K requests
- Free trial: 7-day trial with 2K results
Oxylabs’ Web Scraper API comes with a dedicated Shein search results scraper. And with Oxylabs taking the number 1 spot as far as the success rate-scrape time combo goes, it doesn’t get any better than this. For anything other than search, you’re encouraged to use the generic scraper.
The specialized API endpoint accepts a few parameters: search query, starting page number, JS rendering, your device type, and where you want your data delivered. The results will come in HTML. You can manually specify selectors to parse or use AI Copilot to build custom parsers with instructions in natural language. Said scraper will format the output in JSON or Markdown.
Outside of these specifics, Oxylabs, as always, delivers plenty of integration options and quality infrastructure. The CPM of $1.15 at $500 spend is also nothing to sneeze at.
For more information and performance tests, read our Oxylabs review.
2. ScrapingBee
Highly-Customizable Shein scraper.
Available tools:
General-purpose API
Success rate:
51.78%
Response time:
67.07 s
- Integration: API (real-time), proxy, SDK, MCP
- Data parsing: manual or AI-generated parsing instructions
- Locations: 150+
- Pricing model: subscription and credits
- Pricing starts at: $49/mo for 250K credits
- Free trial: 1K free API credits
While ScrapingBee doesn’t have a dedicated Shein scraper, you can use its HTML request builder to configure the API however you need.
The HTML request builder allows you to set up JS rendering and JS scenarios, custom headers, cookies, AI queries, extraction rules, and so on. So if you have some technical knowledge and know what you’re looking for, you’ll probably extract the data you want. It may take a while, however – ScrapingBee has the longest turnaround time in our top five.
The price will heavily depend on just how many extra features you’ll need to apply to successfully breach Shein and make off with the latest data on designer pantaloons. $599/mo gets you 8,000,000 credits. However, if you want special stealth proxies, JS rendering, and AI extraction, you’ll be paying up to 80 credits per scrape.
For more information and performance tests, read our ScrapingBee review.
3. Decodo (formerly Smartproxy)
Attractively-Priced Shein scraper.
Try 100 MB for free.
Available tools:
Generic scraper API
Success rate:
36.59%
Response time:
50.50 s
- Integration: API (real-time or async), SDK, or MCP
- Data parsing: manual or AI-generated parsing instructions
- Locations: 150+
- Pricing model: subscription; based on successful requests
- Pricing starts at: $20/mo for up to 23K requests
- Free trial: 7-day free trial with 1K results & 14-day money-back guarantee
Taking the #3 spot on our list is Decodo Web Scraping API; generic, sure, but capable of scraping Shein. Here, you have two options. The first one is just chucking a URL into the Web Scraping API and fetching the unstructured output. The second one is opening the AI parser and giving it some natural language instructions to get the structured data you desire.
However, none of those capabilities would matter if you couldn’t get Decodo working in the first place. So, you may be interested to know that the tool integrates as an API (real-time, async), SDK, or MCP. It can output scraped data as HTML, Markdown, or XHR.
Decodo pricing for the API is split into two tiers: Core and Advanced. For Shein, you will need to buy into the Advanced plan, as this is the only way to get JS rendering and the more advanced output formats. At which point, the CPM of $1.10 is still quite good.
For more information and performance tests, read our Decodo review.
4. Zyte
The cheapest Shein scraper.
Available tools:
General-purpose API with an e-commerce parser
Success rate:
34.22%
Response time:
46.80 s
- Integration: API (real-time), proxy, or SDK
- Data parsing: automatic extraction model for e-commerce (product, product list, product navigation), LLM schemas and transformation
- Locations: 150+ locations with country-level targeting
- Pricing model: pay as you go, subscription
- Starting price: $1.01 of 1K responses
- Free trial: $5 platform credits for 30 days
Zyte doesn’t have a dedicated Shein endpoint, but the general-purpose API is able to scrape Shein relatively well, and you can even parse its product pages. It can do so with the (admittedly generic) pre-trained machine learning models.
The default parameters for this spider can scrape product data (price, availability, etc.) for a single item, while product list and product navigation parameters are helpful for discovery. And if Zyte’s browser manipulation parameters aren’t enough, you can turn to the Zyte IDE and use a TypeScript API to write your own scripts.
As far as the pricing goes, the Zyte cost estimator gives a CPM of $1.02 at 490.000 shein.com requests. Discounts start applying the higher you go, though PAYG ends at the $100 mark – you need a subscription to reach the $500 mark.
For more information and performance tests, read our Zyte review.
5. ScraperAPI
Best Shein scraper response time.
Available tools:
General-purpose API
Success rate:
22.26%
Response time:
39.39 s
- Integration: API (real-time or async), proxy, SDK, no-code
- Data parsing: not available
- Locations: 70 with country-level targeting
- Pricing model: credits; based on successful requests
- Pricing starts at: $49 for 100K credits
- Free trial: 7-days and 5K credits
ScraperAPI may be our best G2 scraper, but even it struggles to penetrate Shein. Nevertheless, it’s basically the only option you have left if the other four on our list didn’t work for you. Somewhat unsurprisingly, it doesn’t offer a dedicated Shein endpoint, only a generic scraping API.
Said API has plenty of integration modes, accepts GET and POST requests, and delivers results either over an open connection or via webhook. You can choose your results to come in HTML, text, or Markdown. ScraperAPI comes with its own proxies, but only the US or EU (as regions) are available at the two lowest subscription levels.
You may want to splash some cash anyway, since scraping Shein necessitates JS rendering and premium proxies.
- January 13, 2026