Compare Gaffa vs. scrapestack

Gaffa is a REST API built for web scraping and browser automation, allowing developers to run real, full browsers at scale with a single API call. It removes the difficulty of managing headless browser frameworks, rotating proxies, CAPTCHA solving, and scaling infrastructure, all of which are handled automatically. JavaScript-heavy and dynamic websites render exactly as they would for a human visitor by default. Beyond standard scraping, Gaffa supports AI-driven structured data extraction (extract data into a defined schema without writing CSS selectors), screenshot and PDF capture, infinite-scroll and form-filling automation, and clean Markdown conversion for feeding webpages directly into LLM and RAG pipelines. A rotating residential proxy network keeps access reliable across regions, and a credit-based pricing model means teams pay only for the browser time and bandwidth they actually use. Gaffa is designed for AI engineers, data teams, and developers who want production-grade web data extraction without having to build and maintain their own infrastructure.

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.