ScraperAPI alternative

A simpler ScraperAPI alternative for Google, LinkedIn, and local business data. Instead of proxies and raw HTML, you get clean JSON from the API (or the same rows as CSV), one credit per successful call, and credits that never expire.

3,000 free / month, no card One credit per successful call Credits never expire
ONE KEY, EVERY GOOGLE SURFACE

One request, real response

No proxy to configure, no rendering flag to set, and no HTML to parse. You send one GET request and get clean data back in about a second. The example below is a Maps search:

# one credit per business returned; zero results cost nothing curl "https://crustapi.com/v1/search?type=maps&q=coffee+in+portland+me" -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY"

The API returns clean JSON. You can flip the same businesses to CSV in one click, so they drop straight into Sheets or a CRM:

name,category,rating,reviewsCount,phone "Harbor Coffee Roasters","Coffee shop",4.6,318,"(207) 555-01••" "Riverside Espresso Bar","Espresso bar",4.4,192,"(207) 555-01••"

Swap type=maps for web, news, shopping, reviews, and the rest. The key and the schema stay the same across every type.

WHAT EVERY RESULT INCLUDES

The full record, ready to use

Every result comes parsed and complete, so there is no HTML to parse and no selectors to keep alive. Here is the same business as CSV, ready for Sheets or a database:

name,category,address,phone,website,rating,reviewsCount,latitude,longitude "Harbor Coffee Roasters","Coffee shop","210 Wharf St, Portland, ME 04101","(207) 555-01••","harborcoffee.example",4.6,318,43.6591,-70.2568

And the same record as clean JSON, exactly what the API returns:

// the top result in full { "name": "Harbor Coffee Roasters", "category": "Coffee shop", "address": "210 Wharf St, Portland, ME 04101", "phone": "(207) 555-01••", "website": "harborcoffee.example", "rating": 4.6, "reviewsCount": 318, "latitude": 43.6591, "longitude": -70.2568 }
HOW IT COMPARES

ScraperAPI vs CrustAPI

ScraperAPI is general-purpose scraping infrastructure: point it at a URL, it handles proxies and rendering, and it hands back the page. CrustAPI is one clean data API for the data you actually want: the whole Google menu through one endpoint, plus LinkedIn profiles and local business leads, all returned as clean records. The difference shows up most in billing and in how much work is left for you.

ScraperAPICrustAPI
Billing modelMonthly subscription measured in API credits, where a single request can cost more credits when it needs JavaScript rendering or premium proxiesOne credit per successful call at one rate, nothing else to add up
Free tierA free trial to get started3,000 results a month, no card
Credit expirySubscription credits reset each monthPrepaid credits never expire
Data in responseRaw HTML back by default, which you parse yourself, plus parsed JSON for a set of supported endpointsClean JSON in the response for every type, or the same rows as CSV, no HTML to parse
Site coverageAny URL, with proxies, rendering, and anti-bot handlingThe whole Google menu, plus LinkedIn profiles and local business leads, returned as clean records
Google surfacesSERP HTML for you to parse, plus a set of structured endpointsSearch, Maps, News, Shopping, Images, Videos, Scholar, Patents, Places, Reviews, Autocomplete, Webpage
SetupPoint it at a URL, get the page back, write and maintain your parserOne GET request, parsed JSON back in about a second
PRICING

One credit per successful call

Prepaid packs, and credits never expire: 25k for $49 · 100k for $149 · 500k for $549 · 2.5M for $1,999 · up to 250M, all self-serve, ex-tax. Every search is one credit per successful call. Maps is the one exception, billed one credit per business returned, so a Maps search with 20 results costs 20 credits and a search that returns none costs nothing. No request tiers by proxy type, no rendering surcharge, no monthly reset on what you already bought.

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WHAT CRUSTAPI COVERS

Every Google surface, one API

One key and one schema across the whole Google menu, with LinkedIn profiles and local business leads alongside it. Each type returns clean, parsed records you can keep, with no HTML to sift through.

GoogleSearch
GoogleMaps
GoogleNews
GoogleShopping
GoogleImages
GoogleVideos
GoogleScholar
GooglePatents
GooglePlaces
GoogleReviews
GoogleAutocomplete
GoogleWebpage

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FAIR PLAY

When ScraperAPI is the better pick: if you need to scrape sites outside a fixed menu, ScraperAPI is built for exactly that. You point it at any URL and it handles proxy rotation, headless-browser rendering, geotargeting, and anti-bot challenges, then hands back the page. That general-purpose reach covers e-commerce product pages, your own target lists, and sources CrustAPI does not touch. CrustAPI is more focused on purpose. It covers the whole Google menu through one endpoint, plus LinkedIn profiles and local business leads, all returned as clean records and priced one way. If the data you want lives in there, the parsed output and the credits that never expire are the reason to switch. The two are not exclusive; plenty of teams use both.

BEFORE YOU ASK

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WORKS WITH YOUR STACK

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3,000 free credits covers real work. Send one request and look at the parsed JSON that comes back.

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