ScrapingDog
ScrapingDog is an affordable web scraping API specialized in LinkedIn profile extraction, Google SERP results, and e-commerce scraping.
✓ JS Rendering✓ CAPTCHA BypassResidential Proxies✓ Free Tier
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- ▶Specialized endpoints for LinkedIn public profile and company page extraction
- ▶Google SERP API with clean, pre-parsed JSON search results
- ▶Affordable subscription packages for medium-volume scraping workloads
⚠️ Cons
- ▶Limited bypass capabilities on websites protected by advanced enterprise anti-bots
- ▶Basic API documentation with fewer advanced language client libraries
🎯 Best For
Growth hackers, recruiters, and data analysts needing cost-effective programmatic access to LinkedIn profiles and Google search results.
🐍 Python Code Example
python
import requests
response = requests.get(
'https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape',
params={
'api_key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
'url': 'https://www.google.com/search?q=web+scraping+tools',
'dynamic': 'false',
'country': 'us',
}
)
print('Status:', response.status_code)
print('HTML length:', len(response.text))🧩 Supported SDKs & Languages
PythonNode.jsPHPRubyJavacURL