ScrapeNinja
p/scrapeninja
Swiss army knife for high-performance web scraping
Anthony Sidashin
ScrapeNinja — Swiss army knife for high-performance web scraping
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ScrapeNinja.net is a set of tools and a simple API for web scraping tasks: it handles browsers; rotates proxies and leverages smart retry strategy to retrieve the content you need. Scrapers can be built online, in browser, using Online Sandbox!
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Anthony Sidashin
Hey fellow hunters! My name is Anthony, and I am thrilled to finally launch my bootstrapped product, ScrapeNinja.net, on ProductHunt. If you have ever tried to extract useful data from a random website on a regular basis, you know it might be a tedious task. You need to figure out how to retrieve the website response, then parse the HTML and extract content from it, test everything thoroughly, and ensure it runs smoothly in production. Internet is full of online tutorials "how to do web scraping in Python" but in reality, websites are becoming increasingly difficult to scrape, especially if you want to extract the data continuously and you don't want to fix your web scraper every day, dealing with retries, proxies, and running headless browsers. This is where ScrapeNinja comes into play: it handles all the complexity of running headless browsers, HTML parsing, and proxy rotation, and provides a simple API to use it. As I built web scrapers and spent countless hours setting up new projects, repeating the same data extraction and proxy testing process, I built ScrapeNinja to make my life easier, and now ScrapeNinja is ready to help others to run web scrapers faster and with less headache. I will sincerely appreciate your feedback on ScrapeNinja website design and, what's more important, your experience building web scrapers in ScrapeNinja Sandbox, and using its API. Cheers!
Sherry
@pixeljetter Congratulations on the launch! For people who want to know some statistical data, ScrapeNinja.net will be a very useful product. I'm wondering if the underlying technology of this product is also based on Python web scraping?
Anthony Sidashin
@shiyuntang thanks Sharry! The tech stack of ScrapeNinja is Node.js and C++ (for the part of the network stack which is used for the high performance scraping engine which is launched on /scrape endpoint)
David Frankle
@pixeljetter Congratulations on launching ScrapeNinja! How does your product differ from other web scraping tools out there? Excited to try it out.
@pixeljetter Congratulations on launching ScrapeNinja, nice tool to scrape web like a ninjia, great job!
Salil Sethi
Interesting product. In addition to scraping, is there a way to categorize the results? For example, this was scraped from the landing page, or this is a testimonial, or this is a feature or benefit, etc. If there is content categorization, we might have a use case for it.
John Smith
How's everything? Wow wow wow! Swiss army knife :) Great job on getting ScrapeNinja on Product Hunt! I've only got a single question. What motivated you to create it?
Anthony Sidashin
@new_user_126293be17 thank you! My major motivation was my laziness, I was tired of solving the same scraping related tasks again and again :)
Aram Shah
Hey, congrats on the launch! Any plans for monetization? I didn't quite get it, if its free forever or what :)
Anthony Sidashin
@new_user_163720ddf7 thanks! ScrapeNinja has a free plan and 3 paid packages.
Usama Ejaz
Congratulations on the launch of ScrapeNinja, it looks like an amazing set of tools for web scraping! I'm excited to see how it makes the process easier and more efficient.
Bilal Niaz
ScrapeNinja.net is a great tool for web scraping tasks. It handles browsers; rotates proxies, and leverages smart retry strategies to retrieve the content you need.
Justus Mulli
Cool product! You mentioned that websites are becoming increasingly difficult to scrape, and I've experienced this firsthand through various projects over the past years. Google has been by far one of the most difficult to get around - is that something scrapeninja can handle? Ex. scraping google image or google search results.
Anthony Sidashin
@justus_mulli sure, ScrapeNinja can help with Google. Drop me a message, I will be happy to chat.
Nick Harrision
Looks cool! We are launching a decentralised web hosting and content delivery platform, can you guys see any synergies with us?
Anthony Sidashin
@nick_harrision web scraping might be useful for most of companies, it's particularly useful in lead generation automation, we just need to brainstorm :)
Paul Sobiecki
Congratulations on the launch! I have to agree, web scraping can be an awful task, and really hard for people who are not programmers. So ScrapeNinja seems like a game-changer! We at Adstra are fans of low-code and no-code solutions, they usually make your life so much easier. Good product!
Anthony Sidashin
@pausx thanks Paul I appreciate it!
herval
Looks neat! Congrats on the launch! If I may suggest something - could you perhaps make that terminal animation on the front page type faster? I almost gave up and closed the tab before the third example (which is the really neat one)
Anthony Sidashin
@herval thanks, I have just increased the speed, and added some improvements, let me know!
Christopher Ries
Have used beautiful soup historically and can definitely relate to the problem that you're trying to solve. Really excited to try this out! Thanks for the great release!
ZHENG Haibo
@pixeljetter Congratulations on the launch! ScrapeNinja is a versatile web scraping tool that includes a simple API, browser handling, proxy rotation, and smart retry strategies to extract the data you need. Boost your web scraping performance with ScrapeNinja!
Mary Kh
Have a good lunch day! Btw, how are the hieroglyphs from the icon translated? 😛
Anthony Sidashin
@marynotj Thanks Mary! my lunch was awesome today, lol :) these glyphs mean "ninja" - thanks for asking!
Kristie Hartin
This looks fantastic. I don't feel comfortable sharing my credit card details, but I'd be happy to pay via PayPal or crypto.
Anthony Sidashin
@kristie_hartin thanks Kristie! I have crypto payments available, please drop me a message.
Maria
Awesome tool! Congrats on the launch! I'll be happy to recommend it further! 🤩🎉🥳😊
Anthony Sidashin
@maria_brm thank you Maria, you are the best!
Andrey Shebentovsky
Congratulations on launching ScrapeNinja.net, Anthony! This is an amazing product that will undoubtedly make web scraping much easier for many users. As the founder of Ruum, a remote podcast recording app (https://ruum.cc/en/), I can see several ways in which ScrapeNinja could be beneficial for our product. One idea is to use it to scrape competitor websites to gather information on new podcasting features or updates in the industry. We could also use ScrapeNinja to extract data from podcast directories or social media sites to identify potential podcasters who could benefit from using Ruum. We could also use ScrapeNinja to extract data from relevant websites to gather insights into our target audience's preferences and pain points, which could help us tailor our marketing efforts more effectively.. Additionally, we could use it to monitor other podcasting apps for mentions of our own product, to help us stay informed of what our users are saying about Ruum. Overall, ScrapeNinja seems like a powerful tool that could provide us with valuable data to help us improve our product and better understand our target audience. Congratulations again on the launch, and thank you for creating such a useful product!
Anthony Sidashin
@shebentovsky thanks Andrey! Yeah scraping competitors and leads is a pretty popular sales strategy now. I will be happy to answer your questions if you have any! Good luck with Ruum, sounds like a great product indeed!
Alexander Molchunov
Using Scrap Ninja to monitor changes in my competitors website has made my job much easier. It's a helpful and user-friendly tool that I'm grateful to have discovered. I'm thrilled to see Scrap Ninja featured on Product Hunt and I hope that more people can benefit from its features.
Anthony Sidashin
@new_user_1757213cf6 appreciate it Alexander!
Anton Styazhkin
It's like a Swiss army knife for web scraping - it handles browsers, rotates proxies, and has a smart retry strategy to ensure you get the content you need. And the fact that you can build scrapers online using the Online Sandbox is incredibly convenient. Plus, the fact that it offers free options is a huge plus.
Mehdi Rifai
Looks really cool! Congrats on launching! Scrape Ninja is Bookmarked ✅
Carter Michael
Insane level of detail to this. Congrats on the launch!