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ScrapingAnt¶

ScrapingAnt provides affordable web scraping with rotating proxies and headless browser support.

Quick Start¶

from sentimatrix import Sentimatrix
from sentimatrix.config import SentimatrixConfig, ScraperConfig

config = SentimatrixConfig(
    scrapers=ScraperConfig(
        provider="scrapingant",
        # api_key from SCRAPINGANT_API_KEY env var
    )
)

async with Sentimatrix(config) as sm:
    reviews = await sm.scrape_reviews(url, platform="amazon")

Setup¶

export SCRAPINGANT_API_KEY="your-api-key"

Configuration¶

ScraperConfig(
    provider="scrapingant",
    api_key="your-key",          # Or env var
    timeout=60
)

Features¶

Affordable: Competitive pricing
Browser Rendering: Headless Chrome
Proxy Rotation: Automatic
CAPTCHA Handling: Auto-solving
Simple API: Easy integration

API Options¶

reviews = await sm.scrape_reviews(
    url,
    platform="amazon",
    # ScrapingAnt options
    browser=True,          # Enable browser
    proxy_country="us",    # Proxy location
    wait_for_selector=".reviews",  # Wait for element
)

Pricing¶

Plan	Credits	Price
Hobby	10,000	$19/mo
Startup	100,000	$49/mo
Business	500,000	$149/mo
Enterprise	3M	$399/mo

Very competitive pricing for the features offered.

Best For¶

Budget-conscious scraping
Simple use cases
Startups
Testing and prototyping

Example: Budget Scraping¶

config = SentimatrixConfig(
    scrapers=ScraperConfig(provider="scrapingant")
)

async with Sentimatrix(config) as sm:
    # Affordable scraping solution
    reviews = await sm.scrape_reviews(
        "https://amazon.com/product/...",
        platform="amazon",
        max_reviews=200
    )