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Add to SafariWhen comparing CloudScrape vs Diggernaut, the Slant community recommends Diggernaut for most people. In the question“What are the best web scraping services?” Diggernaut is ranked 1st while CloudScrape is ranked 4th. The most important reason people chose Diggernaut is:
Supports not only flat data structures but also nested, so you may have list of objects in parent object and so on.
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Pros
Pro Great customer support
Support is provided on all packages, including the free plan.
Pro Free proxy servers
They provide a set of proxy servers free of charge, as well as allowing the user to add their own proxy servers.
Pro Fair usage storage
They don’t monitor or charge for storage, they keep data free of charge for 2 weeks and then archive it. The archives are available to anyone for another six weeks before they are permanently deleted.
Pro Everything in the Cloud
Collected data can be saved to Google Drive, Box or any other Cloud service or receive structured output as CSV, Excel or JSON via a REST API.
Pro All browser based
Advanced browser based editor provided to navigate through websites, fill out forms, build robots and extract data in real time.
Pro Supports nested data structures
Supports not only flat data structures but also nested, so you may have list of objects in parent object and so on.
Pro OCR support
Its possible to OCR images and get textual data from them while you scraping other data from web.
Pro More than HTML parser
Service can scrape from not only HTML pages, but also XML, JSON, JS, iCal, and images. All these types gets converted to XML, and then you can traverse them by DOM as standard HTML.
Pro Can be self-hosted
Useful for people who don't want to scrape from cloud and prefer run it on own hardware. You can compile digger to very lightweight application to be run on Linux, windows or Mac.
Cons
Con No PDF support
You cannot scrape data from PDF files.
