8 Web Scraping Api Success Stories [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: November 1st, 2023

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Here are some real life success stories of starting a web scraping API:

1. Scrapingdog ($264K/year)

Manthan Koolwal, founder of Scrapingdog, was inspired by the productivity and entrepreneurship culture in his hometown of Gujarat, India. After completing his B.tech degree, he learned to code and discovered the potential of web scraping. He launched Scrapingdog as an MVP, focusing on SEO and writing quality blog posts to attract customers. Since then, Scrapingdog has grown to generate $22k per month, with Manthan emphasizing the importance of SEO in growing a business.

How much they make: $264K/year
How much did it cost to start: $300
Current team size: 6

How I Bootstrapped A $264K/Year Data Scrapping API [From India]

Scrapingdog, a web scraping API founded in India by Manthan Koolwal, is making $22k per month and has increased its paid customer base by 15-18% every month, focusing on SEO and quality backlinks to attract customers and achieve a 99% success rate in web scraping.

About

Manthan started Scrapingdog about 4 years ago

Revenue

Manthan grew the business to $22K/month

Costs

It cost Manthan $300 to start the business

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2. ScrapingAnt ($72K/year)

Oleg, a serial entrepreneur with a technical background, came up with the idea for ScrapingAnt after trying out various e-commerce projects and realizing the need for a reliable data scraping solution. He partnered with his friend Andrii, who had experience in setting up scalable infrastructures for data gathering, and together they created a simple solution based on AWS Lambdas. They launched the business on the RapidAPI marketplace and focused on content marketing and providing excellent customer support to attract and retain customers. The company has achieved profitability and continues to invest in technology and search for their "thingy" that will bring in more customers. Recently, they entered into a collaboration with software development company Codery to expand their capacity.

How much they make: $72K/year
How much did it cost to start: $0
Current team size: 2

I Started My First Business At 12 Years Old. Now, My Friend & I Run A Profitable Web Scraping Service

ScrapingAnt is a web scraping service with an easy-to-integrate API, making it the ideal data extraction infrastructure solution for companies and private entrepreneurs, making a profit of $7.1K in December 2021 and actively looking for technical and non-technical content creators.

About

Oleg started ScrapingAnt about 4 years ago

Revenue

Oleg grew the business to $6K/month

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Learn more about starting a web scraping API:

Where to start?

-> How much does it cost to start a web scraping API?
-> Pros and cons of a web scraping API

Need inspiration?

-> Examples of established web scraping API
-> Marketing ideas for a web scraping API

Other resources

-> Web scraping api tips

3. Scraper API ($6M/year)

How much they make: $6M/year
Current team size:

Acquiring & Growing a Scraping SaaS to $400k/Mo

SaaS.group acquires Scraper API, the successful data extraction tool generating $400k/mo, signaling growth plans with new hires expected this year.

Revenue

They grew the business to $500K/month

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4. Data Excavator ($48K/year)

Vitaly, a programmer and entrepreneur, came up with the idea for Data Excavator while working on a project to create a catalog of automobile oils. Frustrated with the difficulty of obtaining data from manufacturers, he developed a prototype that could scrape information from websites using CSS selectors. The prototype proved successful, allowing him to collect the desired database in just a few hours.

How much they make: $48K/year
How much did it cost to start: $30K
Current team size: 2

How Selling Motor Oil Led Me To Create A $48K/Year Web Scraping Tool

Vitaly, a programmer and entrepreneur, accidentally created a data scraping app while working on a different startup that has since compiled energy-efficient databases of about 500,000 goods used by five large companies and many small ones, with monthly sales of over $100 million.

About

Vitaly started Data Excavator about 5 years ago

Revenue

Vitaly grew the business to $4K/month

Costs

It cost Vitaly $30000 to start the business

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5. Medium ($34.8M/year)

How much they make: $34.8M/year
Current team size: 5288

How Was Medium Developed?

About

They started Medium over 11 years ago

Revenue

They grew the business to $2.9M/month

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6. ScrapingBee ($99.6K/year)

How much they make: $99.6K/year
Current team size: 2

ScrapingBee: From 2 failed startups to $3,000/month in 4 months

ScrapingBee, a web scraping tool founded in 2019, has grown to $1M+ ARR in just three years with 99% of revenue attributed to SEO strategies and practices, used by businesses for price monitoring, tracking SERP results, lead generation, and general data mining.

About

Kevin started ScrapingBee over 5 years ago

Revenue

Kevin grew the business to $8.3K/month

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