Scrapfly alternative
Most people looking for a Scrapfly alternative want clean data, not raw pages to parse. CrustAPI returns ready-to-use records as clean JSON from the API, or the same rows as CSV, across the whole Google menu plus LinkedIn profiles and local business leads. You pay one credit per successful call, and empty or failed queries cost nothing.
One request, real response
No page to render, no selectors to write, no anti-bot settings to tune. You send one GET request and get clean data back in about a second. The example below is a web search:
The results come back as clean JSON from the API. You can flip the same rows to CSV in one click, so they drop straight into Sheets or a CRM with no parsing:
Swap type=web for maps, news, shopping, images, videos, reviews, and the rest. The key and the schema stay the same across every type, and there is no HTML to clean up.
The full record, ready to use
Each result arrives structured and complete, so you build a feed or a dataset with no second call and no CSS or XPath rules. The same record as CSV, ready for Sheets or a database:
Or the same record as JSON:
With Scrapfly you fetch the page and then extract the fields you want. Here the structure is already done.
Scrapfly vs CrustAPI
Scrapfly is a general web-scraping platform: you point it at any URL and it fetches the page, handling proxies, headless browsers, and anti-bot bypass. CrustAPI is one clean data API for the data you actually want: the whole Google menu, plus LinkedIn profiles and local business leads. The difference shows up most in what comes back and in how you pay for it.
| Scrapfly | CrustAPI | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing model | Per request, and the credit cost of a request varies with proxy type, JavaScript rendering, and anti-bot bypass level | One credit per successful call: every search is one flat credit per query (Maps bills one credit per result), whatever the result count; empty and failed queries cost nothing |
| Free tier | A free monthly allowance to try it, no card | 3,000 results a month, no card |
| Credit expiry | Tied to a monthly plan; the allowance resets each cycle | Prepaid credits never expire |
| Data in response | The fetched page content, raw HTML by default, or structured through a separate extraction step | Clean JSON in a stable schema, returned in the response, or the same rows as CSV, no parsing |
| What it covers | Any URL you point it at, general purpose across the open web | A fixed menu of clean data: the whole Google menu, plus LinkedIn profiles and local business leads |
| Google surfaces | Whatever you extract from the page yourself | Search, Maps, News, Shopping, Images, Videos, Scholar, Patents, Places, Reviews, Autocomplete, Webpage |
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. You pay one credit per successful call: every search is one flat credit per query, however many results come back, while Maps bills one credit per result; a query that returns nothing costs nothing. There is no per-request premium for rendering, proxies, or anti-bot bypass, so the price on the page is the price you pay.
Every Google surface, one API
One key and one schema across the whole Google menu. Each type returns clean records you can keep, with no page to render and no HTML to clean up.
Related: Web scraper API · Google Search API · Google Maps scraper API · Web search API · Docs
When Scrapfly is the better pick: if your target is a site CrustAPI does not cover, Scrapfly is the right tool. It is a general web-scraping API, so you point it at any URL and it hands back the page. It brings a full headless browser for JavaScript rendering, a proxy pool including residential IPs, anti-bot bypass built for hard targets, screenshots, and a separate extraction step to turn a fetched page into structured data. That toolbox is built for scraping the open web, which is a wider job than a structured data menu. CrustAPI is narrower on purpose. It is one clean data API for a fixed menu, the whole Google menu plus LinkedIn profiles and local business leads, priced one way, so if your work lives inside that set the simpler billing and the credits that never expire are the reason to switch. The two are not exclusive; plenty of teams use both. If anything here is stale or unfair, email support@crustapi.com and I will fix it.
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