# Web scraping

The ground-floor guides. What scraping is, what it is not, where the legal lines actually sit, and which of the two very different things sold as a "scraping API" you should be buying.

**1** Guides

**2** Scrapers covered

**28 September 2026** Last updated

[![Cover card reading "What is web scraping, and when is an API cheaper?"](/blog/covers/what-is-web-scraping.png)Web scraping ### What is web scraping, and when is an API cheaper? Web scraping is reading a public page and turning it into records. The real decision is whether you write the parser yourself or buy one already written. ![apidojo](/blog/authors/apidojo.png)Apidojo28 September 2026 3 min](/blog/web-scraping/what-is-web-scraping/)

## The scrapers behind this

-   [Tweet Scraper V2 Tweets from searches, profiles, Lists and URLs; 49–64 tweets/sec; minimum 50 per query $0.40 / 1K tweets](/scrapers/twitter-scraper/)
-   [TikTok Scraper Profiles, videos, hashtags, music and locations; 460 posts/sec measured $0.30 / 1K posts](/scrapers/tiktok-scraper/)