Smartproxy Launches Core Scraping APIs
This product variation comes with fewer features for one fifth of the cost.
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Smartproxy, the international provider of proxies and web scraping tools, has launched Core web scraping APIs.
The new APIs are a stripped down version of the provider’s web scrapers (now called Advanced), and they’re available at a significantly cheaper price. Compared to the full version, they:
- Restrict geo-targeting to the US, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Japan, and Romania
- Allow making fewer requests per second – 30+ rather than unlimited
- Return only the raw HTML response
- Don’t use Smartproxy’s premium proxy pool
- Can’t render JavaScript
- Lack ready-made templates for individual website properties, alongside scheduling functionality
In exchange, Core APIs offer significantly cheaper rates. It’s hard to map the plans onto each other, but the one directly comparable package costs nearly five times less:
* Price for 1,000 requests
The Core variation is currently available with Smartproxy’s E-Commerce Scraping API. But it looks like the provider plans to introduce it with other APIs, as well.
For tasks that do not require JavaScript rendering or accessing the toughest websites, it may be among the most affordable options currently on the market.
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