In 2010, when we first launched WebHarvy, there were only a handful of web scraping software. In 2025, the situation has changed drastically. With the advancement of AI and machine learning, data has become pivotal for businesses, and web scraping has become a necessity. There are now numerous web scraping tools available, each with its own unique features. We have compiled this list to help you choose the right tool for your needs.
We have categorized the list in to 3 main categories: Subscription based (SAAS / Web Apps), One Time Payment Software (Perpetual License / Desktop Tools) and Developer Tools / APIs.
1. Subscription based (SAAS / Web Apps)
- - Octoparse
- - Parsehub
- - Import.io
- - Mozenda
- - ProWebScraper
2. One Time Payment (Perpetual License / Desktop Tools)
- - WebHarvy
- - Outwit Hub
- - WebSunDew
3. Developers Tools & APIs
- - Beautiful Soup
- - APIfy
- - ScraperAPI
- - ScrapingBee
- - Scrapy
Subscription based (SAAS / Web Apps)
Web scraping software which run from the cloud are mostly subscription based, which require a monthly recurring fee. They are normally accessed through a web browser or browser extension. They can be accessed from any location and usually does not require installation of additional software on your computer. Cloud based web scraping solutions are mostly suited for enterprise level data extraction requirements, where large volumes of data need to be extracted.
Advantages: Scalability, local infrastructure not required, accessible from anywhere, enterprise level features
Disadvantages: Monthly recurring costs (expensive), data is stored in the cloud (security/privacy concerns)
Octoparse is a SaaS web data platform. You can use Octoparse to scrape web data and turn unstructured or semi-structured data from websites into a structured data set. It also provides ready to use web scraping templates including Amazon, eBay, Twitter, BestBuy, and many others. Octoparse also provides web data service that helps customize scrapers based on your scraping needs.
Website: https://www.octoparse.com Price: Starting from $99/month, Free plan available
Parsehub is a powerful web scraping platform which lets you collect data easily from various websites. Parsehub can be used to scrape data from interactive websites with an easy-to-use interface, without requiring users to write any code. Parsehub also provides an API to integrate extracted data. Data can also be imported from Google sheets and Tableau.
Website: https://www.parsehub.com/ Price: Starting from $189/month, Free plan available
Import.io is an enterprise level data extraction, integration and automation platform. Import.io enables any organization to gain intelligence, efficiencies, and competitive advantages from the vast amount of data on the web.
Website: https://www.import.io Price: https://www.import.io/standard-plans/
Mozenda is another enterprise level data scraping platform. Mozenda's platform allows you to collect, structure, publish, analyse and visualize data from various sources.
Website: https://www.mozenda.com/ Price: Starting from $500/month
ProWebScraper lets you extract data from dynamic websites. Multiple levels of page navigation to scrape various categories within a website is supported. ProWebScraper supports extracting text, links, tables as well as high resolution images from websites. API support is available for developers to access the scraped data.
Website: https://prowebscraper.com/ Price: https://prowebscraper.com/pricing
One Time Payment (Perpetual License / Desktop Tools)
The following web scraping software can be installed locally on your computer. Web scraping operation is done locally using your systems memory/processing resources and internet bandwidth. They offer a perpetual license (pay once and use forever) and are mostly suited for consumers, individuals and small/medium sized businesses.
Advantages: No recurring costs, data is stored locally, cheaper compared to cloud-based solutions
Disadvantages: Requires installation, limited to the resources of your computer
WebHarvy is an easy-to-use, visual web scraping software, with a point and click interface. WebHarvy has powerful features under the hood so that most complex data extraction requirements can also be handled.
Website: https://www.webharvy.com Price: $129 for single user license
OutWit Hub is a Web data extraction software application designed to automatically extract information from online or local resources. It recognizes and grabs links, images, documents, contacts, recurring vocabulary and phrases, RSS feeds and converts structured and unstructured data into formatted tables which can be exported to spreadsheets or databases.
Website: https://www.outwit.com Price: Starting from $69
WebSundew is a complete web data extraction software and services package. This software lets you capture web data with high accuracy, productivity and speed.
Website: https://websundew.io Price: Starting from $99
Developers Tools & APIs
If you are a developer, you can build your own data scraping solution. There are several libraries, tools and APIs which you can use to make development easier. The following are a few of them.
Beautiful Soup is a Python library which can be used for many projects including web scraping. Beautiful Soup lets you load and parse HTML to scrape data from web pages.
Website: https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ Price: Free
APIfy lets you turn any website into an API. This lets you access the data displayed by pages within the website just like if the website provided an API. APIfy also supports web automation to automate manual workflows and processes on the web.
Website: https://apify.com/ Price: Starting from $39/month. Free plan available.
ScraperAPI is a proxy API for web scraping. Scraper API handles proxies, browsers and CAPTCHAs so that developers can concentrate on parsing the HTML to get the data which they need.
Website: https://www.scraperapi.com/ Price: Starting from $49/month
ScrapingBee also provides an API for handling headless browsers and proxies so that developers need not worry about these details while scraping data. Running multiple instances of headless browsers which is required while web scraping is a resource intensive operation, and remote websites can block these browsers while continuously accessing their pages to extract data. Both these problems are solved by ScrapingBee.
Website: https://www.scrapingbee.com/ Price: Starting from $49/month
Scrapy is an open-source Python framework for extracting data from websites. Scrapy is maintained by Scrapinghub and other contributors. Scrapy scripts can be deployed on Scrapinghub's Scrapy Cloud.
Website: https://scrapy.org/ Price: Free