Used For

• +**Your scrapers break on JavaScript-heavy sites like Amazon or LinkedIn** → ScrapingBee renders pages fully, waits for content to load, gets the actual data
• +**Getting IP banned after scraping 50 competitor prices** → Automatic proxy rotation across 30+ countries keeps you invisible
• +**Spending weekends debugging CAPTCHA solvers** → Built-in solving handles reCAPTCHA and hCaptcha automatically
• +AI extraction using plain English prompts — say "get all product prices" instead of writing CSS selectors
• +Pre-built endpoints for Google Search and Amazon — no figuring out their anti-bot measures yourself

Best For

• >Your custom scrapers keep getting blocked after 100 requests
• >You need data from React sites but BeautifulSoup just sees loading spinners
• >Spending 10 hours a week babysitting Puppeteer crashes and proxy failures

Not For

• -Teams scraping under 1,000 pages monthly — you're paying premium prices for proxy overkill
• -Non-developers without coding experience — this requires making HTTP requests, not point-and-click
• -Anyone needing unlimited concurrent requests — even enterprise plans cap simultaneous scrapes

Pairs With

• *Python/Requests (to make the actual API calls and handle responses)
• *PostgreSQL (to store scraped data without hammering the same URLs repeatedly)
• *Airflow (to schedule scraping jobs instead of running them manually)
• *Pandas (to clean up the messy JSON data ScrapingBee returns)
• *Google Sheets (where non-technical teammates want to see competitor prices)
• *Slack (where you get alerts when scraping jobs fail or find interesting changes)
• *Make/n8n (for no-code workflows when developers don't want to write more Python)

The Catch

• !Premium proxies cost 10-25x more credits than basic ones, so your budget disappears fast on protected sites
• !JavaScript rendering and geotargeting are locked behind higher tiers — starter plans are pretty basic
• !Credits don't roll over monthly, so you lose unused scrapes and pay again next month

Bottom Line

Scraping without the 3am "your scrapers are broken again" alerts.