Scrapingdog alternative
A simpler Scrapingdog alternative for the data you actually want. One clean data API across the whole Google menu, plus LinkedIn profiles and local business leads, with clean JSON from the API or the same rows as CSV. One credit per successful call, and credits never expire.
One request, real response
No proxy to configure, no HTML to parse. You send one GET request and get clean JSON back in about a second. The example below is a Maps search:
The same businesses as CSV, so they drop straight into Sheets or a CRM:
Swap type=maps for news, shopping, reviews, and the rest. The key and the schema stay the same across every type.
The full record, ready to use
Every result comes back parsed and complete, so you build a list or a dataset with no second call and no raw HTML to clean up. The same business as CSV, ready for Sheets or a database:
Or the same record as JSON:
Scrapingdog vs CrustAPI
Scrapingdog is a general web scraping API with dedicated endpoints for sites like Google, LinkedIn, and Amazon. CrustAPI is one clean data API for the whole Google menu, plus LinkedIn profiles and local business leads, returned as clean records. The difference shows up most in billing, in credit expiry, and in what you get back.
| Scrapingdog | CrustAPI | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing model | Monthly subscription; the credit cost of a request changes with the features you turn on, like JS rendering or premium proxies | One credit per successful call, nothing else to add up |
| Free tier | A free trial with a limited number of credits | 3,000 credits a month, no card |
| Credit expiry | The plan allowance resets each billing cycle; unused requests do not roll over | Prepaid credits never expire |
| Data in response | Returned in the response; the general web scraping API hands back raw HTML you parse yourself | Clean JSON in the response, one stable schema per type, or the same rows as CSV |
| Site coverage | Broad: a generic scraping API plus dedicated scrapers for sites like LinkedIn and Amazon | The whole Google menu, plus LinkedIn profiles and local business leads, returned as clean records |
| Google surfaces | Dedicated Google Search, Maps, and News APIs | Search, Maps, News, Shopping, Images, Videos, Scholar, Patents, Places, Reviews, Autocomplete |
| Setup | Set request params, handle parsing per site for the general API | One GET request, clean records back in about a second |
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. Maps bills one credit per business returned, so a search that returns 20 businesses costs 20 credits; every other search is one flat credit per query. A call that returns nothing costs nothing. No subscription to renew, no proxy line item, and no charge that changes because you turned on JS rendering.
Every Google surface, one API
One key and one schema across the whole Google menu. Each type returns clean parsed records you can keep and export.
Related: Google Search API · Google Maps scraper API · Google News API · Serper alternative · Docs
When Scrapingdog is the better pick: if you need to scrape arbitrary websites, Scrapingdog's general web scraping API with JS rendering and proxy rotation handles any URL you point it at. If you need Amazon or other sites beyond Google and LinkedIn, Scrapingdog has dedicated endpoints for those and CrustAPI does not. Its pricing is competitive too. CrustAPI is more focused: one clean data API for the whole Google menu, plus LinkedIn profiles and local business leads, priced one way, with credits that never expire. If your work lives on Google and lead data, the flat per-call billing and the credits that do not reset are the reason to switch. The two are not exclusive; plenty of teams use both.
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