Supacrawler vs Other Tools

Supacrawler stands out in the web scraping landscape by offering a perfect balance of simplicity, power, and reliability. Here's how it compares to other popular tools.

Quick Comparison

Why Choose Supacrawler?

Zero Infrastructure Unlike Selenium or Playwright, you don't need to manage browsers, proxies, or servers. Everything runs in our optimized cloud infrastructure.

Advanced Anti-Detection Built-in evasion techniques that would require extensive manual configuration in other tools.

Multiple Output Formats Get your data as HTML, Markdown, JSON, or structured links - all from a single API call.

Lightning Fast Setup While others require complex installation and configuration, Supacrawler works with just an API key.

Always Up-to-Date No browser updates, dependency conflicts, or breaking changes to worry about.

Detailed Comparisons

Performance Benchmarks

Based on our extensive testing across 1,000+ websites:

Speed Comparison (Average Response Time)

• Supacrawler: 1.2s
• Selenium: 4.8s (including browser startup)
• Playwright: 3.2s (including browser startup)
• BeautifulSoup: 0.8s (static content only)
• Firecrawl: 2.1s

Success Rate (JavaScript-heavy sites)

• Supacrawler: 98.5%
• Selenium: 92.1%
• Playwright: 94.3%
• BeautifulSoup: 23.7%
• Firecrawl: 89.2%

Code Complexity (Lines of code for basic scraping)

• Supacrawler: 3 lines
• Selenium: 12+ lines
• Playwright: 8+ lines
• BeautifulSoup: 7 lines
• Firecrawl: 5 lines

Cost Analysis

For 10,000 requests per month:

Getting Started

Ready to see the difference? Try Supacrawler today:

from supacrawler import SupacrawlerClient

client = SupacrawlerClient(api_key="your-api-key")
result = client.scrape("https://example.com", format="markdown")
print(result.markdown)