Pros from reviewers

• Clear and easy-to-understand documentation: The usage documentation provided by ScrapingBee is clear and easy to understand, with examples provided in every programming language, making it easy for users to integrate the service into their code

• High success rate of proxies: ScrapingBee's proxies have a high success rate, making it possible to scrape various Ecommerce stores that have heavy bot throttling and prevention

• User-friendly and well-documented API: ScrapingBee's API is user-friendly and well-documented, providing proxy services and more, making it a competitive and scalable solution for web scraping.

• Fast and reliable scraping responses: ScrapingBee provides incredibly quick scraping responses, with no issues of degradation or processing delays, making it one of the fastest services in the market

• Excellent customer support: ScrapingBee has an excellent support team that responds almost instantly, helps with formulating complex scraping requests, and provides suggestions and JavaScript codes for extracting any type of data

Cons from reviewers

• Limited concurrency: The concurrency limit is 10 for the lowest paid plan and 40 for the business plan, which might be a bit low for some users' needs and slightly limits throughput

• Geo-location issues: A few websites still manage to block crawling attempts or identify ScrapingBee's default US servers as Canadian IP addresses, which can complicate things

• Inability to scrape PDFs: Some users have reported that ScrapingBee may not be able to scrape PDFs, which can be a limitation for those who often need to scrape data from PDF files

• Slow API responses: Some users have expressed a desire for faster API responses, indicating that the current response time may not be as quick as they would like

• High pricing: Some users find the pricing a bit high, starting at $50 per month, and would have preferred a lower tier with fewer calls to allow for scaling in the initial months.