Compare Gaffa vs. scrapestack

Gaffa is a comprehensive REST API designed for browser automation, allowing developers to efficiently control authentic, full browsers with just one API call, which removes the complexities of managing headless-browser frameworks, proxies, and scaling infrastructure. By default, it effectively manages JavaScript rendering, ensuring that web pages load precisely as they would for an actual user, and it accommodates a wide array of automation tasks, including web scraping, taking screenshots, exporting content to PDF, transforming pages into clean Markdown suitable for LLMs, infinite-scroll scraping of dynamic websites, filling out forms, capturing complete page screenshots, and archiving content for offline access. Additionally, Gaffa boasts a rotating residential proxy network that guarantees dependable access from various geographic locations, incorporates automatic CAPTCHA handling when necessary, and operates on a credit-based usage model, where costs are determined by actual browser execution time and bandwidth, making scaling and budget management significantly easier. With its robust features and user-friendly design, Gaffa streamlines the browser automation process for developers across different industries.

Leverage our vast network of over 35 million datacenter and residential IP addresses from various global ISPs, featuring real devices, smart retries, and IP rotation. Select from more than 100 global locations for your web scraping API requests, or opt for random geo-targets that cover numerous major cities around the world. The scrapestack API is designed to provide a straightforward REST API interface for large-scale web page scraping, eliminating the need to manually manage geolocations, IP blocks, or CAPTCHAs. It includes a range of essential web scraping functionalities, such as JavaScript rendering, customizable HTTP headers, diverse geo-target options, and support for POST/PUT requests, along with the choice to utilize premium residential proxies as an alternative to datacenter proxies. Additionally, this API is tailored to enhance your web scraping experience by ensuring reliability and efficiency.