By Cyber Era NG Special Correspondent
In a significant move set to reshape the web scraping landscape, a leading provider of simple and reliable web scraping solutions, ScrapingBee has officially joined the Oxylabs’ group, Cyber Era NG learns.
We gather that this strategic acquisition strengthens Oxylabs’ group position as a market leader in proxy and data collection technologies while further advancing innovation and transparency in the scraping ecosystem.
ScrapingBee, founded by Pierre de Wulf and Kevin Sahin, has built a strong reputation among thousands of customers for its user-friendly and high-performance scraping APIs. Now, as part of the Oxylabs group, the company is set to deliver even greater value to its user base.
ScrapingBee’s co-founders Pierre de Wulf and Kevin Sahin stated:
“From a passion project to a fast-growing company, ScrapingBee has exceeded our expectations. Joining forces with an industry leader with deep expertise and a shared vision opens up exciting opportunities for our team and customers. Together, we’re set to push the boundaries of what’s possible in the web scraping industry.”
What this means for ScrapingBee customers
Lower costs for core services
Effective immediately, ScrapingBee is reducing the credit cost of its Google Search API and HTML API calls from 25 to 15 credits thanks to enhanced infrastructure efficiencies from the integration.
Faster, global customer support
With the support of Oxylabs’ ecosystem resources, ScrapingBee has expanded its customer service capabilities, more than doubling the size of its support team to ensure faster, more responsive assistance across multiple time zones.
Boosted scraping performance
This acquisition aligns with Oxylabs’ group broader mission to push the web intelligence industry forward, fostering ethical data gathering practices and improving the quality of tools available to developers, businesses, and researchers worldwide.
