ScrapingBee Alternative for App Store & Google Play Reviews
Looking for a ScrapingBee alternative for app reviews? ScrapingBee is a general-purpose web-scraping API — it scrapes many sites (Google, Amazon, app stores, and more), and you supply extraction rules or parse the returned HTML. ASORadar is a purpose-built App Reviews API: structured review JSON for App Store and Google Play, no extraction rules, no credit accounting.
ScrapingBee vs ASORadar
ScrapingBee is broad and flexible across the whole web; app-store scraping is one of many use cases. ASORadar is narrow and typed: a reviews endpoint that returns clean JSON out of the box.
| ASORadar | ScrapingBee | |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | App reviews only (focused) | General web scraping; app stores = one use case |
| Output | Structured reviews JSON, ready to use | HTML / your CSS-XPath rules / AI extraction |
| Both stores | One schema (/a1, /g1) |
Separate scraper per store |
| Billing | Pay-per-request, from $0.001/call | Subscription with API credits |
| Setup | app_id + key → reviews |
Build extraction rules per page |
| Best for | App-review pipelines, agents | Scraping many different sites with one tool |
When ASORadar is the better fit
- You want reviews as typed JSON immediately — no CSS/XPath selectors, no HTML parsing, no per-page extraction logic.
- You need both stores in one schema:
/a1/reviewsand/g1/reviewsreturn the same shape; ScrapingBee treats each store as a separate scraper. - You prefer pay-per-request ($0.001/call) over a monthly credit subscription, with credit cost varying by render/JS options.
- You want cache-first freshness control (
cached,fetched_at,fresh=true) built into the reviews endpoint.
When to keep ScrapingBee
If you scrape many different sites (search engines, marketplaces, arbitrary pages) and want one general tool with proxy rotation and JS rendering, ScrapingBee is built for exactly that breadth. ASORadar only does app reviews — better when that's the job, not when you need a general scraper.
The data, in one call
curl "https://api.asoradar.com/g1/reviews?app_id=com.whatsapp&country=us&lang=en" \
-H "x-access-key: YOUR_ACCESS_KEY"
The App Store equivalent is /a1/reviews with a numeric app_id. See the App Store and Google Play references.
FAQ
Do I need to write extraction rules with ASORadar?
No. ASORadar returns structured review JSON directly — no CSS/XPath selectors or HTML parsing. ScrapingBee is general-purpose, so it leaves extraction to you (or its AI extraction).
Is ASORadar cheaper than ScrapingBee for reviews?
Often, for review-specific workloads — ASORadar bills a flat $0.001 per request, whereas ScrapingBee uses monthly credit tiers where cost depends on render/JS options. Compare against your volume.
Does ASORadar cover both App Store and Google Play?
Yes, with one schema: /a1/reviews and /g1/reviews. ScrapingBee exposes a separate scraper per store.
Is there a free tier?
100 free promo requests, then pay-per-request from $0.001.